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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2024
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Christopher Kallai, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jonathan P. Lang, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Craig Wisneski, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jonathon Reilly, Cambridge, MA (US);
Seamus Daly, Marblehead, MA (US);
Todd Mansfield, Arlington, VA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for position-based playback of multichannel audio. Some embodiments include (i) determining first and second positions of first and second playback devices, respectively, (ii) receiving media content comprising multichannel content, (iii) generating first audio according to a first sound characteristic based on the received multichannel audio content and the first position of the first playback device, (iv) generating first audio according to a first sound characteristic based on the received multichannel audio content and the first position of the first playback device, and (v) causing synchronous playback of the generated first audio via the first playback device and the generated second audio via the second playback device.