Harman International Industries, Inc.

Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh

Craig Gunther

Levi Gene Pearson

David Olsen

Aaron Gelter

Robert Boatright

Markus E Christoph

Richard Allen Kreifeldt

Jeffrey L Hutchings

Matthias Kronlachner

Juergen Zollner

Dong He

Levi Pearson

David Olson

A personal assistant device configured to control companion devices may include a memory configured to maintain a companion device library including a plurality of companion device each associated with at least one long-name, short-cut name and companion device room location, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a user command from a microphone, extract a companion device name and action from the user command, determine whether the companion device name includes a unique name, and command a companion device associated with the unique name to perform the action from the user command in response to the user command including the unique name.

Proximity aware voice agent

Examples include controlling voice input detection in a voice agent network including a plurality of voice agents. An example voice agent includes an audio sensor, a communication interface, a processor, and a memory device storing instructions executable by the processor to detect, via the audio sensor, audio data corresponding to a voice input, and responsive to determining that at least one other voice agent of a voice agent network is detecting audio data corresponding to the voice input determine a signal strength at which the audio data is detected, compare the signal strength to a reported signal strength from the at least one other voice agent, and selectively transmit one or more of an indication of the signal strength and the detected audio data based on comparing the signal strength to the reported signal strength from the at least one other voice agent.

Voice agent forwarding

The sound reproduction includes generating from a customized audio signal an acoustically isolated sound field at a position dependent on a sound field position control signal; providing a listening position signal representing a position of a listener and a listener identification signal representing the identity of the listener; and processing the listening position signal, the listener identification signal, and an audio signal. The sound reproduction further includes controlling, via the sound field position control signal, the position of the sound field dependent on the listening position signal so that the position of the sound field is at the position of the listener; and processing the audio signal according to an audio setting dependent on the identity of the listener to provide the customized audio signal.

Sound reproduction for a multiplicity of listeners

Embodiments are disclosed for networked computing devices and methods of managing talker and listener attributes in a network. In some embodiments, a computing device comprises a networking device that receives and propagates data streams and information relating to the data streams to other devices in a network and a processor. The computing device also comprises a storage device that stores the information related to the data streams and instructions executable by the processor to receive a first talker attribute, selectively discard a second talker attribute, the second talker attribute being stored on the storage device prior to receiving the first talker attribute, and store the first talker attribute.

Resource management for stream reservations

Electronic modules in a vehicle may communicate over an Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) network. The modules normally cooperate to send and receive streams of data with a specified quality of service as AVB streams. When conditions are present in which an AVB-quality stream cannot be sent over the network, the modules can communicate with certain limp-home functionality. Sending modules may send streams of data without a stream reservation as multicast messages. Receiving modules may be configured to receive the multicast messages. Network bridge modules may be configured to enable a Talker Pruning feature to facilitate handling of the multicast messages.

Limp-home operation of audio video bridging networks

A network communication system includes a network address management and functional object discovery system. The network address management and functional object discovery system includes a network manager that manages network addresses for functional objects of electronic devices that communicate with each other over a network. The network manager may maintain a database that maps or associates unique IDs of the functional objects with associated network addresses. The network manager may provide non-conflicting instance IDs and network addresses to the electronic devices. The network manager may also provide instance IDs and/or network addresses for other electronic devices so that the electronic devices may communicate with each other over the network.

Network address management and functional object discovery system

A network media adapter includes peripheral interfaces for connection to connectors of audio/video ('A/V') sources and sinks to respectively receive media data from the A/V sources and to transmit media data to the A/V sinks. Components are configured to syntonize or synchronize local media clocks of the A/V sources and sinks to ensure media data integrity affiliated with a protocol of a media network over which the media data is transported. A quality of service (QoS)-compliant media interface is integrated in the network media adapter through which to send and receive processed A/V media data to and from the media network according to the protocol. Other components may be configured to process, encapsulate, and transport over the media network the media data received from the A/V sources. Still other components may be configured to receive media data from the media network and decapsulate, process, and transmit the media data through one or more peripheral interfaces connected to the A/V sinks.

Network media adapter

A system that includes a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus may communicate over an Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging network. The transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus may each include an application layer module in communication with an application interface module. The application layer module of the transmitting apparatus may interface with the application interface module to send a control message over the network to control flow of a data stream over the network. The application layer module of the receiving apparatus may interface with the application to interface module to receive the control message.

System for communicating control messages in an AVB network

An integrated navigation and collision avoidance system for a source object may include a navigation module and a collision avoidance module. The collision avoidance module may identify an external object that could possibly collide with the source object. The collision avoidance module may determine a likelihood of collision with the external object based on navigation information received from the navigation module. The navigation module may receive information pertaining to the likelihood of collision determination from the collision avoidance module and determine whether to include collision avoidance information and/or modify navigation instructions to generate a navigation output.

Integrated navigation and collision avoidance systems

A system that includes a talker, a listener, and a controller may communicate over an Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging network. The controller may communicate control messages to manage data streams between the talker and the listener through one or more application layer interfaces of the talker and the listener. Based on the control messages, the talker and the listener may communicate using a Stream Reservation Protocol to reserve connection for, or remove connection from, the data streams. The talker and listener may communicate the success of reserving or removing the connections to the controller through the application layer interfaces.

System for managing audio/video streams using non-avb application layer structures in listener devices of an avb network

A network communication system includes a talker that may communicate a data stream having an optimal presentation time to a plurality of listeners over a network, such as an Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging network. The optimal presentation time may be determined by a maximum latency among a plurality of latencies for connections between the talker and the listeners. A controller may communicate with the listeners to determine the maximum latency. The controller may also provide the maximum latency to the talker and the listeners. The talker may determine the optimal presentation time based on the maximum latency. The listeners may allocate an optimum amount of resources to buffer the data stream before the data in the data stream is presented.

System for optimizing latency in an AVB network

A listener system, or listener, may be used with an Ethernet Audio-Video Bridging ('AVB') network. The listener may include various components, such as an upper layer application and a stream reservation protocol stack. The upper layer application and stream reservation protocol stack may be in communication with each other. The stream reservation protocol stack may receive stream advertisements on or across the Ethernet AVB network. The stream reservation protocol stack may operate in a sparse mode and may operate in a full mode. When operating in a sparse mode, the stream reservation protocol stack may transmit one subset of the received stream advertisements to the upper layer application, and may not transmit another subset of the received stream advertisements to the upper layer application.

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