Simplisafe, Inc.

Devin Walker

Rodrigo Alexei Vasquez

Curtis Gahimer

Patrick Lloyd Murphy

John D'Aversa, Jr

Security systems and methods. In one example, a method includes processing, by a device that includes a camera, an image to generate a bounding box that surrounds a portion of content of the image, the portion of content of the image including at least a portion of a person shown in the image, determining a proximity of the person to the device based on a size of the bounding box, and adjusting a speaker of the device based on the proximity of the person to modify one or more audio characteristics of sound output by the speaker based on the proximity of the person to the device.

Speaker control based on proximity

A device including a speaker and a housing, in which the speaker is configured to generate sound and includes a diaphragm and the housing encloses the speaker and includes a plurality of openings within one portion of the housing. The speaker is positioned within the housing to define a front chamber between the diaphragm and the one portion, and the plurality of openings are sized to collectively generate, with the front chamber, an increased output of the device within a frequency range of an output of the speaker corresponding to an alarm tone. Also provided are methods for assembling a device including a speaker and a housing.

Speaker device

Systems and methods for controlling a speaker. In one example, a method includes determining, based on a request to operate a speaker, a type of sound to be produced by the speaker, the request being indicative of whether operation of the speaker is for a communication session or to produce a system sound, and adjusting one or more parameters of the speaker to output (i) speech, based on the request indicating that operation of the speaker is to be for the communication session, or (ii) the system sound, based on the request indicating that the operation of the speaker is to produce the system sound. An example of the method further includes initiating operation of the speaker using the one or more parameters to produce the type of sound.

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Devin Walker