Bose Corporation

Kenneth Andrew Taylor

Hector Andres Saint-Hilaire

Jonathan Cooper

Paul William Larsen

Dylan Maxwell Reilly

Karthik Ramana Sankar

Wen Shi

Isabel Anna Dunning

John Edward Fraize, Jr

David Gerard Burkhardt

Ajay Shrikar Khambadkone

John Edward Fraize

Jonathan Hilton Cooper

Various aspects include a speaker including: an acoustic transducer for providing an audio output; a set of microphones for detecting a user voice command; and a controller coupled with the acoustic transducer and the set of microphones, wherein the controller is configured to: in response to detecting a power down command, switch the set of microphones from an active listening mode to a standby mode for a parking period, in response to detecting a power up command during the parking period, switch the set of microphones from the standby mode to the active listening mode after a first time period, and in response to detecting the power up command after expiration of the parking period switch the set of microphones from the standby mode to the active listening mode after a second time period that is greater than the first time period.

Portable smart speaker power control

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Pepperell, MA, United States of America

Kenneth Andrew Taylor