Abstract: Equipment includes a speaker enclosure comprising a chamber, a loudspeaker, and a vent; an electronic component; a heat sink device arranged to dissipate the heat generated by the electronic component and comprising both the vent and also a thermally conductive element that extends from an end of the vent and that is thermally coupled with the electronic component.

Abstract: A processor device for processing an incoming audio stream, the device including: a configuration element arranged to acquire input parameters having both first characteristics of the incoming audio stream and also second characteristics of the audio playback devices, and to produce configuration parameters on the basis of the input parameters; a master element arranged to define processing sequences from the configuration parameters, each processing sequence being associated with and adapted to a respective playback channel, to apply the processing sequences to the incoming audio stream so as to produce processed audio streams, each adapted to a respective one of the playback channels, and to transmit to each piece of equipment including an audio playback device the processed audio stream is adapted to the playback channel associated with the audio playback device.

Abstract: A method of managing an audio stream that is read by audio playback equipment in a manner that is synchronized on a reference clock is provided. The method includes the following steps implemented in said piece of audio playback equipment: receiving the audio stream, the audio stream being in the form of packets, each packet comprising a succession of audio samples associated with identification information characteristic of a timestamp of said packet; playing the audio samples contained in each packet and storing a time given by the reference clock that is characteristic of the moment at which a predetermined sample of at least one of the packets is played; and sending a message including correspondence information concerning the correspondence between the identification information characteristic of a timestamp of said packet and the time stored in the preceding step.

Abstract: A method of managing at least one audio playback equipment group including at least one piece of audio playback equipment is provided with a light-emitting identification interface. The method includes the steps of: using the light-emitting identification interface of the piece of audio playback equipment to display a light pattern characteristic at least of the group to which said piece of equipment belongs and/or characteristic of the role of the piece of equipment within said group in the event of at least one of the pieces of audio playback equipment being selected, and performing an action relating to the associated piece of audio playback equipment.

Abstract: Connected speaker (1) comprising: a LAN interface (2); a WPAN interface (3); pairing means (5) designed to pair the connected speaker with one or more external speakers (6) each equipped with an external WPAN interface (7); processing means (8) designed to acquire an input audio signal from an audio source (15) via the LAN interface, to produce at least one distributed audio signal from the input audio signal, to allocate each distributed audio signal to one of the external speakers (6) paired with the connected speaker, and to transmit, to each external speaker, via the WPAN interface (3) of the connected speaker (1) and the external WPAN interface (7) of said external speaker (6), the distributed audio signal that is allocated to said external speaker (6), such that the connected speaker (1) and the external speakers (6) form a multichannel audio playback system.

Abstract: A diagnostic method of electrical equipment which includes a processing unit, an internal microphone, and electrical components other than microphones or speakers, the diagnostic method including the steps of acquiring a received audio signal produced from an ambient sound signal, by the at least one internal microphone or by the at least one external microphone, producing monitoring parameters from the received audio signal, which are representative of an interfering sound signal comprised in the ambient sound signal and emitted by at least one of the electrical components, and detecting a sound anomaly resulting from a failure of at least one electrical component of the electrical equipment from the monitoring parameters.

Abstract: Modular equipment includes a main module that has a main speaker, main communication components arranged to implement at least one wireless communication, power supply components arranged to acquire main power supply from the mains, main assembly means arranged to assemble the main module with one or more additional modules, a processor component arranged to detect if the main module is assembled with a first additional module comprising one or more microphones and, if this is the case, to activate at least one additional function implemented by the equipment and using the microphone(s).

Abstract: Audio playback equipment includes microphones, a loudspeaker, emitter means arranged to emit a sound detection signal, and at least one processor component arranged: to acquire detection audio signals produced by the microphones as a result of picking up the detection sound signal; from the audio detection signals, to detect a run of maskings in which at least two distinct microphones are masked in succession; to analyze a detected run of maskings so as to detect a command slide made by a user on the housing via at least two distinct microphones; and to cause at least one predetermined action to take place as a result of detecting said command slide.

Abstract: Modular equipment includes a main module that has a main speaker, main communication components arranged to implement at least one wireless communication, power supply components arranged to acquire main power supply from the mains, main assembly means arranged to assemble the main module with one or more additional modules, a processor component arranged to detect if the main module is assembled with a first additional module comprising one or more microphones and, if this is the case, to activate at least one additional function implemented by the equipment and using the microphone(s).

Abstract: A sound playback method implemented in a system including an audio/video decoder and a plurality of pieces of audio playback equipment that have been grouped together in the same audio group, the method comprising the steps of defining a first subgroup comprising the audio/video decoder and at least one first piece of audio playback equipment, and a second subgroup comprising at least one second piece of audio playback equipment; dynamically determining a current mode that is occupied by the system; when the system is in the first mode, causing the first subgroup to play back a first audio signal comprising a common audio content, and causing the second subgroup to play back a second audio signal comprising the common audio content; when the system is in the second mode, causing the first subgroup to play back a third audio signal comprising an audio stream forming part of the audio-video stream, and causing the second subgroup to play back a fourth audio signal.

Abstract: A method of playing back audio/video signals by means of an audio/video system includes a decoder appliance connected to a display screen and to a wireless speaker including a buffer storing audio frames so as to allow latency between receiving encoded audio frames and supplying decoded audio frames. The method comprises the steps of: determining a filling level of the buffer; comparing the filling level of the buffer with a filling target for the buffer and deducing a filling difference therefrom; and increasing or decreasing the number of audio frames that are stored as a function of the filling difference so as to adjust latency.

Abstract: A processor device for processing an incoming audio stream, the device including: a configuration element arranged to acquire input parameters having both first characteristics of the incoming audio stream and also second characteristics of the audio playback devices, and to produce configuration parameters on the basis of the input parameters; a master element arranged to define processing sequences from the configuration parameters, each processing sequence being associated with and adapted to a respective playback channel, to apply the processing sequences to the incoming audio stream so as to produce processed audio streams, each adapted to a respective one of the playback channels, and to transmit to each piece of equipment including an audio playback device the processed audio stream is adapted to the playback channel associated with the audio playback device.

Abstract: A method of managing at least one audio playback equipment group including at least one piece of audio playback equipment is provided with a light-emitting identification interface. The method includes the steps of: using the light-emitting identification interface of the piece of audio playback equipment to display a light pattern characteristic at least of the group to which said piece of equipment belongs and/or characteristic of the role of the piece of equipment within said group in the event of at least one of the pieces of audio playback equipment being selected, and performing an action relating to the associated piece of audio playback equipment.

Abstract: A method of managing an audio stream that is read by audio playback equipment in a manner that is synchronized on a reference clock is provided. The method includes the following steps implemented in said piece of audio playback equipment: receiving the audio stream, the audio stream being in the form of packets, each packet comprising a succession of audio samples associated with identification information characteristic of a timestamp of said packet; playing the audio samples contained in each packet and storing a time given by the reference clock that is characteristic of the moment at which a predetermined sample of at least one of the packets is played; and sending a message including correspondence information concerning the correspondence between the identification information characteristic of a timestamp of said packet and the time stored in the preceding step.

Abstract: Connected speaker (1) comprising: a LAN interface (2); a WPAN interface (3); pairing means (5) designed to pair the connected speaker with one or more external speakers (6) each equipped with an external WPAN interface (7); processing means (8) designed to acquire an input audio signal from an audio source (15) via the LAN interface, to produce at least one distributed audio signal from the input audio signal, to allocate each distributed audio signal to one of the external speakers (6) paired with the connected speaker, and to transmit, to each external speaker, via the WPAN interface (3) of the connected speaker (1) and the external WPAN interface (7) of said external speaker (6), the distributed audio signal that is allocated to said external speaker (6), such that the connected speaker (1) and the external speakers (6) form a multichannel audio playback system.

Abstract: Decoder equipment includes a first output suitable for connecting to audio playback equipment, a second output suitable for connecting to video playback equipment, processor means configured to use a first audio link of the first output to deliver a first audio signal coming from an incoming audio/video stream received by the decoder equipment, and to use a second audio link to deliver a second audio signal associated with at least one sound generated by the decoder equipment. The first link presents first characteristics imparting a first latency to the first audio signal and the second link presents second characteristics imparting a second latency, lower than the first latency, to the second audio signal.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor operative to determine a plurality of bitrate options for downloading video content to a client device and rendering by the client device over future successive timeslots, the video content being encoded as a plurality of bitrate streams, each one bitrate stream being encoded at a different bitrate and being associated with a media distortion value, each one bitrate option including a different selection from the bitrate streams for rendering by the client device over the timeslots so that the bitrate options include different combinations of the bitrate streams for rendering by the client device over the timeslots, and select one bitrate option, from the bitrate options yielding a selected bitrate option, to provide a lowest media distortion result across the timeslots, or a lowest media distortion result across the timeslots subject to at least one other constraint.

Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques for selecting a video stream for a client device. Embodiments receive a request to initiate streaming of a first video content item of a plurality of video channels. An amount of data remaining in a data plan associated with a client device is determined, as is an amount of time remaining in a current data plan cycle for the data plan associated with the client device. Embodiments calculate, for each of a plurality of available video profiles for the first video content item, an estimated amount of data usage for streaming the first video content item according to the available video profile, based on historical streaming data for the client device. An available video profile is selected for the first video content item, and embodiments facilitate streaming of the first video content item on the client device, according to the selected available video profile.

Abstract: A method comprises: obtaining, at an apparatus, first voice data from a first user device associated with a first speaker participant in a communication session; detecting voice data loss or degradation in the first voice data; determining whether prediction probability of correctly compensating for the voice data loss or degradation is greater than a predetermined probability threshold; if the prediction probability is greater than the predetermined probability threshold, first compensating for the voice data loss or degradation using historical voice data received by the apparatus prior to receiving of the first voice data, the first compensating producing first compensated voice data; if the prediction probability is not greater than the predetermined probability threshold, second compensating for the voice data loss or degradation by inserting noise to the first voice data to produce second compensated voice data; and outputting the first compensated voice data or the second compensated voice data.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor operative to determine a plurality of bitrate options for downloading video content to a client device and rendering by the client device over future successive timeslots, the video content being encoded as a plurality of bitrate streams, each one bitrate stream being encoded at a different bitrate and being associated with a media distortion value, each one bitrate option including a different selection from the bitrate streams for rendering by the client device over the timeslots so that the bitrate options include different combinations of the bitrate streams for rendering by the client device over the timeslots, and select one bitrate option, from the bitrate options yielding a selected bitrate option, to provide a lowest media distortion result across the timeslots, or a lowest media distortion result across the timeslots subject to at least one other constraint.