Patents by Inventor Daniel Bromand
Daniel Bromand 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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Patent number: 11935526Abstract: 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: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: 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: 11935534Abstract: 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: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: 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: 11887582Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for training and testing utterance based frameworks are disclosed. The training and testing can be conducting using synthetic utterance samples in addition to natural utterance samples. The synthetic utterance samples can be generated based on a vector space representation of natural utterances. In one method, a synthetic weight vector associated with a vector space is generated. An average representation of the vector space is added to the synthetic weight vector to form a synthetic feature vector. The synthetic feature vector is used to generate a synthetic voice sample. The synthetic voice sample is provided to the utterance-based framework as at least one of a testing or training sample.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Spotify ABInventor: Daniel Bromand
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Publication number: 20230393812Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel BROMAND, Richard MITIC, Horia-Dragos JURCUT, Henriette Susanne Martine CRAMER, Ruth BRILLMAN
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Patent number: 11836415Abstract: 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. Customized voice communications are generated based on receiving input, such as a user query and/or a media track change indication.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Emma-Camelia Gosu, Johan Oskarsson, Daniel Bromand
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Patent number: 11810564Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for detecting wake words. An electronic device detects, from a microphone array, an audio signal in an environment proximate to the audio front end system. The electronic device processes the audio signal using a plurality of wake word detection engines, including dynamically adjusting how many wake word detection engines are available for processing the audio signal. The electronic device independently adjusts respective wake word detection thresholds for the plurality of wake word detection engines used to process the audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Joseph Cauteruccio, Sven Erland Fredrik Lewin
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Patent number: 11755283Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Horia-Dragos Jurcut, Henriette Susanne Martine Cramer, Ruth Brillman
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Patent number: 11748058Abstract: A system and method for confirming a voice command of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command and producing an audio confirmation of the command. A confirmation may be playing a media context item associated with the command, playing a verbal confirmation phrase, or playing a non-verbal audio cue.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Emma-Camelia Gosu, Daniel Bromand, Karl Humphreys
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Publication number: 20230237991Abstract: A wake word detector, at a server of a content delivery network (CDN) that provides audio (or other) content to a device, such as a voice-enabled device, detects false wake words in the audio content. The CDN wake word detector analyzes the audio stream to determine if the audio stream contains any audio that sounds like the wake word. If so, the CDN wake word detector can generate metadata that describes the time period, within the audio content, in which the false wake word was encountered. The metadata can include time offsets, from the start of the audio content, which can instruct a voice-enabled device to deactivate during the time period. This metadata is stored and then sent to the media-playback device requests the media content. The media-playback device can then instruct or inform the voice-enabled device of the presence of the false wake word. In this way, the wake word detector, at the voice-enabled device, is not activated to receive the false wake word.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Björn Erik Roth
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Publication number: 20230237992Abstract: A second wake word detector, at a media-playback device, that plays audio (or other) content to a device, such as a voice-enabled device, detects false wake words in the audio content. The second wake word detector analyzes the audio stream to determine if the audio stream contains any audio that sounds like the wake word. If so, the second wake word detector can generate one of a plurality of instructions that describes the time period, within the audio content, in which the false wake word was encountered. The instruction can cause a first wake word detector to assume one of a plurality of configurations. The media-playback device can then instruct or inform the voice-enabled device of the presence of the false wake word. In this way, the wake word detector, at the voice-enabled device, is not activated to receive the false wake word or ignores the wake word.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Björn Erik Roth
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Publication number: 20230197100Abstract: Apparatus, methods and computer-readable medium are provided for processing wind noise. Audio input is processed by receiving an audio input. A wind noise level representative of a wind noise at the microphone array is measured using the audio input and a determination is made, based on the wind noise level, whether to perform either (i) a wind noise suppression process on the audio input on-device, or (ii) the wind noise suppression process on the audio input on-device and an audio reconstruction process in-cloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Mauricio Greene
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Patent number: 11681493Abstract: 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: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Johan Oskarsson
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Patent number: 11682411Abstract: Apparatus, methods and computer-readable medium are provided for processing wind noise. Audio input is processed by receiving an audio input. A wind noise level representative of a wind noise at the microphone array is measured using the audio input and a determination is made, based on the wind noise level, whether to perform either (i) a wind noise suppression process on the audio input on-device, or (ii) the wind noise suppression process on the audio input on-device and an audio reconstruction process in-cloud.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Mauricio Greene
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Patent number: 11621001Abstract: 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: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, David Gustafsson, Richard Mitic, Sarah Mennicken
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Patent number: 11605393Abstract: 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: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Richard Mitic, Robert Swain, Daniel Bromand, Waqar Sheikh, James Robert Stansfield
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Patent number: 11601486Abstract: 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: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Richard Mitic, Horia Jurcut, Daniel Bromand, David Gustafsson
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Publication number: 20230063839Abstract: Apparatus, methods and computer-readable medium are provided for processing wind noise. Audio input is processed by receiving an audio input. A wind noise level representative of a wind noise at the microphone array is measured using the audio input and a determination is made, based on the wind noise level, whether to perform either (i) a wind noise suppression process on the audio input on-device, or (ii) the wind noise suppression process on the audio input on-device and an audio reconstruction process incloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Mauricio Greene
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Patent number: 11551678Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Björn E. Roth
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Patent number: 11503357Abstract: 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: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, David Gustafsson, Horia Jurcut
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Patent number: 11501764Abstract: Methods, systems, and related products for voice-enabled computer systems are described. A machine-learning model is trained to produce pronunciation output based on text input. The trained machine-learning model is used to produce pronunciation data for text input even where the text input includes numbers, punctuation, emoji, or other non-letter characters. The machine-learning model is further trained based on real-world data from users to improve pronunciation output.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Spotify ABInventor: Daniel Bromand