Patents by Inventor Richard Ledley

Richard Ledley 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).

  • Real-time Adaptation of Audio Playback
    Publication number: 20240430632
    Abstract: A method includes determining one or more audio characteristics of a first digital signal representing a first portion of streaming media content provided by a media playback application to an audio output component; playing the first portion of the media content into an environment; capturing, by an audio output component, a second digital signal representing the first portion of the media content as played; determining, based on the captured second digital signal, one or more detected audio characteristics of the media content as played into the environment; determining a difference between the one or more audio characteristics of the media content and the one or more detected audio characteristics; calibrating a second portion of the media content based on the difference and based on a determination that the second portion is to be calibrated; and playing, by the audio output component into the environment, the second portion as calibrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Ricardo Antonio Garcia, Gustav David Gunnar Sennton, Bich Ha Lo, Nicholas James Clark, Nicole Laure McWilliams, Richard Ledley, Alex Florescu, Jamie Garside
  • Real-time adaptation of audio playback
    Patent number: 12041424
    Abstract: A method includes determining one or more audio characteristics of a first digital signal representing a first portion of streaming media content provided by a media playback application to an audio output component; playing the first portion of the media content into an environment; capturing, by an audio output component, a second digital signal representing the first portion of the media content as played; determining, based on the captured second digital signal, one or more detected audio characteristics of the media content as played into the environment; determining a difference between the one or more audio characteristics of the media content and the one or more detected audio characteristics; calibrating a second portion of the media content based on the difference and based on a determination that the second portion is to be calibrated; and playing, by the audio output component into the environment, the second portion as calibrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ricardo Antonio Garcia, Gustav David Gunnar Sennton, Bich Ha Lo, Nicholas James Clark, Nicole Laure McWilliams, Richard Ledley, Alex Florescu, Jamie Garside
  • Real-Time Adaptation of Audio Playback
    Publication number: 20220295204
    Abstract: A method includes determining one or more audio characteristics of a first digital signal representing a first portion of streaming media content provided by a media playback application to an audio output component; playing the first portion of the media content into an environment; capturing, by an audio output component, a second digital signal representing the first portion of the media content as played; determining, based on the captured second digital signal, one or more detected audio characteristics of the media content as played into the environment; determining a difference between the one or more audio characteristics of the media content and the one or more detected audio characteristics; calibrating a second portion of the media content based on the difference and based on a determination that the second portion is to be calibrated; and playing, by the audio output component into the environment, the second portion as calibrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ricardo Antonio Garcia, Gustav David Gunnar Sennton, Bich Ha Lo, Nicholas James Clark, Nicole Laure McWilliams, Richard Ledley, Alex Florescu, Jamie Garside