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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2019
Applicant:
Roku, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventor:
Neil Edward Johnson, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Roku, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 7/06 (2006.01); H03F 3/217 (2006.01); H03F 3/183 (2006.01); H03F 1/02 (2006.01); H03G 3/02 (2006.01); H03G 3/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 7/06 (2013.01); H03F 1/0216 (2013.01); H03F 3/183 (2013.01); H03F 3/217 (2013.01); H03F 2200/03 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a device and method for intelligently reducing power consumption in an audio amplifier in the device, and in particular Class-D amplifiers, through the use of metadata associated with settings of the playback device and/or content to be played on the playback device. The device includes components for analyzing the settings and content metadata and regulates the voltage provided to the audio amplifier based on this analysis.