公开(公告)号：US10856081B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US16702484

申请日：2019-12-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Afrooz Family ,  Gary I. Butcher ,  Hugo D. Verweij ,  David C. Graham ,  Imran A. Chaudhri ,  Marcos Alonso Ruiz ,  Christopher J. Stringer

IPC: H04R3/12 ,  H04R1/40 ,  G10L15/07 ,  H04R5/02 ,  H04R5/04 ,  H04S7/00 ,  H04R27/00

Abstract: A method for adjusting audio being outputted through a beam forming loudspeaker array. Program audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array to produce sound beams having i) a main content pattern that is aimed at a listener, superimposed with ii) several diffuse content patterns that are aimed away from the listener. In response to receiving an alert message that refers to alert audio, the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is moved into the diffuse patterns, and the alert audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array so that the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is replaced with the alert audio. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US20200107122A1

公开(公告)日：2020-04-02

申请号：US16702484

申请日：2019-12-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Afrooz Family ,  Gary I. Butcher ,  Hugo D. Verweij ,  David C. Graham ,  Imran A. Chaudhri ,  Marcos Alonso Ruiz ,  Christopher J. Stringer

IPC: H04R3/12 ,  G10L15/07 ,  H04R5/02 ,  H04R5/04 ,  H04R1/40

Abstract: A method for adjusting audio being outputted through a beam forming loudspeaker array. Program audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array to produce sound beams having i) a main content pattern that is aimed at a listener, superimposed with ii) several diffuse content patterns that are aimed away from the listener. In response to receiving an alert message that refers to alert audio, the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is moved into the diffuse patterns, and the alert audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array so that the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is replaced with the alert audio. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：USD863340S1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-15

申请号：US29688459

申请日：2019-04-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Designer： Jody Akana ,  Imran Chaudhri ,  David C. Graham ,  Angela Guzman Suarez ,  Jonathan P. Ive ,  Stephen O. Lemay ,  Joe Marianek ,  Christopher Wilson ,  Eric Lance Wilson

公开(公告)号：US10349120B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-09

申请号：US15970610

申请日：2018-05-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： David C. Graham ,  Taylor G. Carrigan ,  Nicholas J. Paulson ,  Johannes P. Schmidt ,  Thomas Alsina ,  Bob Bradley ,  Haishan Ye ,  James C. Grandy ,  Pierre De Lastic ,  Julien Lerouge

IPC: H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/4363 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/414 ,  H04N21/482

Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can transfer a playback queue between the computing device and a playback device. For example, the computing device can detect when the computing device is within a threshold distance of a playback device. The computing device can establish a connection to the playback device and receive state information describing the media playback state of the playback device. The computing device can determine the media playback state of the computing device. The computing device can present graphical user interfaces for initiating a transfer of a playback queue between the computing device and the playback device based on the playback state of the devices. The computing device can initiate a transfer of the playback queue in response to user input to one of the graphical user interfaces or automatically based on the context of the computing device.

公开(公告)号：USD850486S1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-04

申请号：US29606442

申请日：2017-06-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Designer： Molly Anderson ,  David C. Graham ,  Pedro Mari

公开(公告)号：US20180352334A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-06

申请号：US15967089

申请日：2018-04-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Afrooz Family ,  Gary I. Butcher ,  Hugo D. Verweij ,  David C. Graham ,  Imran A. Chaudhri ,  Marcos Alonso Ruiz ,  Christopher J. Stringer

IPC: H04R3/12 ,  H04R5/02 ,  H04R5/04 ,  G10L15/07

Abstract: A method for adjusting audio being outputted through a beam forming loudspeaker array. Program audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array to produce sound beams having i) a main content pattern that is aimed at a listener, superimposed with ii) several diffuse content patterns that are aimed away from the listener. In response to receiving an alert message that refers to alert audio, the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is moved into the diffuse patterns, and the alert audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array so that the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is replaced with the alert audio. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：USD790574S1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-27

申请号：US29563713

申请日：2016-05-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Designer： Freddy Anzures ,  Greg Apodaca ,  Ismael Basso ,  Imran Chaudhri ,  Jonathan Dascola ,  Christopher Foss ,  David C. Graham ,  Jonathan P. Ive ,  Brian Andrew Schmitt ,  Christopher Daryl Soli ,  Christopher Wilson ,  Matthew Dean Rohrbach

公开(公告)号：USD773510S1

公开(公告)日：2016-12-06

申请号：US29529386

申请日：2015-06-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Designer： Christopher Foss ,  David C. Graham ,  Aled Williams ,  Lawrence Yang

公开(公告)号：USD765098S1

公开(公告)日：2016-08-30

申请号：US29519744

申请日：2015-03-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Designer： Imran Chaudhri ,  Kevin Will Chen ,  Alan C. Dye ,  Dylan Ross Edwards ,  Christopher Foss ,  David C. Graham ,  Aurelio Guzmán ,  Jonathan P. Ive ,  Chanaka Karunamuni ,  Wan Si Wan ,  Christopher Wilson ,  Eric Lance Wilson

公开(公告)号：USD754728S1

公开(公告)日：2016-04-26

申请号：US29528822

申请日：2015-06-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Designer： Jody Akana ,  Dmitri Cavander ,  Imran Chaudhri ,  Christopher Foss ,  David C. Graham ,  Mini Ham ,  Jonathan P. Ive ,  Paul Nixon ,  Christopher Wilson