Patents by Inventor Richard Mitic

Richard Mitic has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11935526
    Abstract: A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Robert Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
  • Patent number: 11935534
    Abstract: A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Robert Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
  • Patent number: 11899762
    Abstract: A source device being associated with an account uses playback of a media content item to cause a target device to become associated with the account. The target device enters an association mode and records a portion of the playing content. The target device provides the recording to a server that identifies the song (e.g., using a music fingerprint service) and uses the identification of the song to find the account that caused playback of the identified song. With the account identified, the server provides credentials of the account to target system. The target device accesses content or services using the account. As confirmation of receiving the credentials, the server causes playback of the content to transition to from the source device to the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Richard Mitic, Göran Edling
  • Publication number: 20240038236
    Abstract: Utterance-based user interfaces can include activation trigger processing techniques for detecting activation triggers and causing execution of certain commands associated with particular command pattern activation triggers without waiting for output from a separate speech processing engine. The activation trigger processing techniques can also detect speech analysis patterns and selectively activate a speech processing engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Spotify AB
    Inventor: Richard Mitic
  • Publication number: 20230393812
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection are disclosed. In one method, a list of playlists is traversed and a portion of each is audibly output until a playlist command is received. Based on the playlist command, the traversing is stopped and a playlist is selected for playback. In examples, the list of playlists is modified based on a modification input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel BROMAND, Richard MITIC, Horia-Dragos JURCUT, Henriette Susanne Martine CRAMER, Ruth BRILLMAN
  • Patent number: 11823670
    Abstract: Utterance-based user interfaces can include activation trigger processing techniques for detecting activation triggers and causing execution of certain commands associated with particular command pattern activation triggers without waiting for output from a separate speech processing engine. The activation trigger processing techniques can also detect speech analysis patterns and selectively activate a speech processing engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventor: Richard Mitic
  • Patent number: 11755283
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection are disclosed. In one method, a list of playlists is traversed and a portion of each is audibly output until a playlist command is received. Based on the playlist command, the traversing is stopped and a playlist is selected for playback. In examples, the list of playlists is modified based on a modification input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia-Dragos Jurcut, Henriette Susanne Martine Cramer, Ruth Brillman
  • Patent number: 11681493
    Abstract: A system is provided for streaming media content in a vehicle. The system includes a personal media streaming appliance system configured to connect to a media delivery system and receive media content from the media delivery system at least via a cellular network. The personal media streaming appliance system operates to transmit a media signal representative to the received media content to a vehicle media playback system so that the vehicle media playback system operates to play the media content in the vehicle. Various types of rotations of a knob part of the personal media streaming applicant system result in different media playback actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Johan Oskarsson
  • Patent number: 11621001
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and related products that provide emotion-sensitive responses to user's commands and other utterances received at an utterance-based user interface. Acknowledgements of user's utterances are adapted to the user and/or the user device, and emotions detected in the user's utterance that have been mapped from one or more emotion features extracted from the utterance. In some examples, extraction of a user's changing emotion during a sequence of interactions is used to generate a response to a user's uttered command. In some examples, emotion processing and command processing of natural utterances are performed asynchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, David Gustafsson, Richard Mitic, Sarah Mennicken
  • Patent number: 11605393
    Abstract: An audio cancellation system includes a voice enabled computing system that is connected to an audio output device using a wired or wireless communication network. The voice enabled computing device can provide media content to a user and receive a voice command from the user. The connection between the voice enabled computing system and the audio output device introduces a time delay between the media content being generated at the voice enabled computing device and the media content being reproduced at the audio output device. The system operates to determine a calibration value adapted for the voice enabled computing system and the audio output device. The system uses the calibration value to filter the user's voice command from a recording of ambient sound including the media content, without requiring significant use of memory and computing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Richard Mitic, Robert Swain, Daniel Bromand, Waqar Sheikh, James Robert Stansfield
  • Patent number: 11601486
    Abstract: A system is provided for streaming media content in a vehicle. The system includes a personal media streaming appliance system configured to connect to a media delivery system and receive media content from the media delivery system at least via a cellular network. The personal media streaming appliance system includes one or more preset buttons for playing media content associated with the preset buttons. Data about the preset buttons and the media content associated with the preset buttons can be stored in the media delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Daniel Bromand, David Gustafsson
  • Patent number: 11551678
    Abstract: A first electronic device is provided. While a media content item provided by a media-providing service is emitted by a second electronic device that is remote from the first electronic device, the first electronic device receives, from the media-providing service, data that includes an audio stream that corresponds to the media content item. The first electronic device detects ambient sound that includes sound corresponding to the media content item emitted by the second electronic device. The first electronic device generates a cleaned version of the ambient sound, which includes: using the data received from the media-providing service to align the audio stream with the ambient sound; and performing a subtraction operation to subtract the audio stream from the ambient sound. The first electronic device detects a voice command in the cleaned version of the ambient sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Björn E. Roth
  • Publication number: 20220366024
    Abstract: A source device being associated with an account uses playback of a media content item to cause a target device to become associated with the account. The target device enters an association mode and records a portion of the playing content. The target device provides the recording to a server that identifies the song (e.g., using a music fingerprint service) and uses the identification of the song to find the account that caused playback of the identified song. With the account identified, the server provides credentials of the account to target system. The target device accesses content or services using the account. As confirmation of receiving the credentials, the server causes playback of the content to transition to from the source device to the target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Richard MITIC, Göran EDLING
  • Patent number: 11503357
    Abstract: A system is provided for streaming media content in a vehicle. The system includes a personal media streaming appliance system configured to connect to a media delivery system and receive media content from the media delivery system at least via a cellular network. The personal media streaming appliance system includes one or more preset buttons for playing media content associated with the preset buttons. The media contents associated with the preset buttons are automatically determined to be personalized to the user of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, David Gustafsson, Horia Jurcut
  • Publication number: 20220277743
    Abstract: A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Bo Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
  • Publication number: 20220244909
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection are disclosed. In one method, a list of playlists is traversed and a portion of each is audibly output until a playlist command is received. Based on the playlist command, the traversing is stopped and a playlist is selected for playback. In examples, the list of playlists is modified based on a modification input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel BROMAND, Richard MITIC, Horia-Dragos JURCUT, Henriette Susanne Martine CRAMER, Ruth BRILLMAN
  • Patent number: 11379566
    Abstract: A source device being associated with an account uses playback of a media content item to cause a target device to become associated with the account. The target device enters an association mode and records a portion of the playing content. The target device provides the recording to a server that identifies the song (e.g., using a music fingerprint service) and uses the identification of the song to find the account that caused playback of the identified song. With the account identified, the server provides credentials of the account to target system. The target device accesses content or services using the account. As confirmation of receiving the credentials, the server causes playback of the content to transition to from the source device to the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Richard Mitic, Göran Edling
  • Patent number: 11334315
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection are disclosed. In one method, a list of playlists is traversed and a portion of each is audibly output until a playlist command is received. Based on the playlist command, the traversing is stopped and a playlist is selected for playback. In examples, the list of playlists is modified based on a modification input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia-Dragos Jurcut, Henriette Susanne Martine Cramer, Ruth Brillman
  • Patent number: 11308947
    Abstract: A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Bo Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
  • Publication number: 20220086208
    Abstract: A system is provided for streaming media content in a vehicle. The system includes a personal media streaming appliance system configured to connect to a media delivery system and receive media content from the media delivery system at least via a cellular network. The personal media streaming appliance system includes one or more preset buttons for playing media content associated with the preset buttons. Data about the preset buttons and the media content associated with the preset buttons can be stored in the media delivery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Daniel Bromand, David Gustafsson