US 11,809,782 B2
Audio parameter adjustment based on playback device separation distance
Jerad Lewis, Cambridge, MA (US); Douglas John Button, Simi Valley, CA (US); Kylie Beth Muntean, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Daniel Jones, London (GB); Adib Mehrabi, London (GB); and Christopher William Pike, Manchester (GB)
Assigned to Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Filed by Sonos Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/166,718.
Application 18/166,718 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2022/077233, filed on Sep. 29, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/261,929, filed on Sep. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0195411 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/165 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving an instruction to operate in a first playback configuration in which a first channel of multichannel audio content plays back via a first playback device in synchrony with playback of a second channel of the multichannel audio content via a second playback device;
determining, after receiving the instruction to operate in the first playback configuration, a distance between the first playback device and the second playback device;
determining, based on the determined distance, a first audio parameter;
causing the first playback device to play back the first channel of the multichannel audio content according to the determined first audio parameter;
causing the second playback device to play back the second channel of the multichannel audio content according to the determined first audio parameter;
detecting a loss of connectivity of the second playback device; and
reverting, in response to the detected loss of connectivity, the first audio parameter to correspond with a single player configuration.