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).
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Publication number: 20220075858Abstract: A server has a pool data store that stores ambient sound recordings for matching. A match engine finds matches between ambient sound recordings from devices in the pool data store. The matching ambient sound recordings and their respective devices are then analyzed to determine which device is a source device that provides credentials and which device is a target device that receives credentials. The server then obtains or generates credentials associated with the source device and provides the credentials to the target device. The target device accesses content or services of an account using the credentials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Thorbiörn Fritzon, Richard Mitic
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Publication number: 20220043625Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel BROMAND, Richard MITIC, Johan OSKARSSON
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Patent number: 11204988Abstract: A server has a pool data store that stores ambient sound recordings for matching. A match engine finds matches between ambient sound recordings from devices in the pool data store. The matching ambient sound recordings and their respective devices are then analyzed to determine which device is a source device that provides credentials and which device is a target device that receives credentials. The server then obtains or generates credentials associated with the source device and provides the credentials to the target device. The target device accesses content or services of an account using the credentials.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Thorbiörn Fritzon, Richard Mitic
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Publication number: 20210368226Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, David Gustafsson, Horia Jurcut
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Publication number: 20210343278Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Daniel BROMAND, Richard MITIC, Björn E. ROTH
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Publication number: 20210327429Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel BROMAND, David GUSTAFSSON, Richard MITIC, Sarah MENNICKEN
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Patent number: 11128686Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Daniel Bromand, David Gustafsson
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Publication number: 20210287693Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Richard Mitic, Robert Swain, Daniel Bromand, Wagar Sheikh, James Robert Stansfield
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Patent number: 11099806Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Johan Oskarsson
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Patent number: 11094319Abstract: While a media content item is emitted by a second electronic device that is remote from the first electronic device, the first electronic device receives data that includes: timing information, offset information that indicates a difference between an initial position of the media content item and a current playback position of the media content item, and 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 by using the timing information and the offset information to align the audio stream with the ambient sound and performing a subtraction operation to substantially subtract the audio stream from the ambient sound.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Björn Erik Roth
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Patent number: 11081111Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, David Gustafsson, Richard Mitic, Sarah Mennicken
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Patent number: 10992977Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, David Gustafsson, Horia Jurcut
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Publication number: 20210074289Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Robert Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
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Patent number: 10943599Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Richard Mitic, Robert Swain, Daniel Bromand, Wagar Sheikh, James Robert Stansfield
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Publication number: 20210065696Abstract: While a media content item is emitted by a second electronic device that is remote from the first electronic device, the first electronic device receives data that includes: timing information, offset information that indicates a difference between an initial position of the media content item and a current playback position of the media content item, and 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 by using the timing information and the offset information to align the audio stream with the ambient sound and performing a subtraction operation to substantially subtract the audio stream from the ambient sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Björn Erik Roth
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Patent number: 10909984Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Spotify ABInventor: Richard Mitic
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Patent number: 10853458Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: SPOTIFY ABInventors: Richard Mitic, Göran Edling
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Patent number: 10803864Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: SPOTIFY ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Henriette Cramer, Karl Humphreys, Robert Williams, Kurt Jacobson, Henrik Lindström
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Publication number: 20200243091Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: Spotify ABInventor: Richard MITIC
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Publication number: 20200219511Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel BROMAND, David GUSTAFSSON, Richard MITIC, Sarah MENNICKEN