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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) receiving, via a network interface of a first playback device, an indication of a position of a second playback device, (ii) determining, based on the received indication of the position of the second playback device, an audio characteristic of the first playback device, and (iii) playing back, via one or more transducers associated with the first playback device, a first portion of media content according to the determined audio characteristic in substantial synchrony with playback, via the second playback device, of a second portion of the media content.