Patents by Inventor Vincent NALLATAMBY

Vincent NALLATAMBY 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: 12002472
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a relay device of a wireless network, said wireless network comprising a plurality of network nodes mutually connected by wireless links. The relay device is configured to receive a voice command by a microphone of a source node, determine a recipient voice assistant for processing the voice command, and transmit, towards the recipient voice assistant, an output signal comprising the voice command. The present disclosure relates also to a voice assistant and to a wireless network, and to methods for processing voice commands by a relay device and a voice assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Girardier, Vincent Nallatamby
  • Publication number: 20240007792
    Abstract: Various arrangements for controlling multiple wireless audio devices with a Bluetooth device are presented herein. The Bluetooth device can receive a wireless audio device identifier from each wireless audio device of a plurality of wireless audio devices. The Bluetooth device can duplicate an audio stream into multiple audio sub-streams based on a number of wireless audio devices. The Bluetooth device can apply an audio effect to at least one audio sub-stream based on a characteristic of communication signals between the wireless communication circuit of the Bluetooth device and each wireless device of the plurality of wireless audio devices. The Bluetooth device can transmit each audio sub-stream to the respective wireless audio device for synchronized emission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Girardier, Julien Goupy, Vincent Nallatamby
  • Patent number: 11800284
    Abstract: A Bluetooth device controlling a plurality of wireless audio devices, includes: a wireless communication circuit, to receive a wireless audio device identifier from each wireless audio device; a sound processing circuit to apply independent audio effects on a main audio stream such that the sound processing circuit outputs as many modified audio streams as the wireless communication circuit has received identifiers of wireless audio devices, on the basis of the characteristics of each wireless audio device; an allocation circuit to allocate each modified audio stream to a respective wireless audio device; and a transmission circuit to wirelessly transmit through a Bluetooth usage each modified audio stream to the respective wireless audio device for emission by the wireless audio devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Girardier, Julien Goupy, Vincent Nallatamby
  • Publication number: 20220301567
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a relay device (30) of a wireless network (10), said wireless network comprising a plurality of network nodes mutually connected by wireless links, wherein said relay device (30) is configured to: —receive an input signal from a source node (20) connected to the wireless network, said input signal comprising a voice command received by a microphone of the source node, said voice command to be processed by a voice assistant;—determine, based on the input signal, a recipient voice assistant (40) connected to the wireless network and adapted for processing said voice command; —transmit, towards the recipient voice assistant (40), an output signal comprising the voice command. The present disclosure relates also to a voice assistant (40) and to a wireless network (10), and to methods for processing voice commands by a relay device (30) and a voice assistant (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Girardier, Vincent Nallatamby
  • Publication number: 20220210853
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing a routing of audio data, the method being performed by an audio data routing device (M), the method comprising the steps of: —transmitting (100), in a Bluetooth network, a list of audio transmitting devices (SPK1, SPK2, SPK3), —receiving (200) a communication request (RQ1, RQ2) from a Bluetooth enabled device (S1, S2), —in response to said communication request, establishing (300) a communication link with the Bluetooth enabled device, —managing (400) the audio data routing between the Bluetooth enabled device and a selected audio data transmitting device from the list of audio data transmitting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Vincent Nallatamby, Thomas Girardier
  • Publication number: 20220132249
    Abstract: A Bluetooth device controlling a plurality of wireless audio devices, includes: a wireless communication circuit, to receive a wireless audio device identifier from each wireless audio device; a sound processing circuit to apply independent audio effects on a main audio stream such that the sound processing circuit outputs as many modified audio streams as the wireless communication circuit has received identifiers of wireless audio devices, on the basis of the characteristics of each wireless audio device; an allocation circuit to allocate each modified audio stream to a respective wireless audio device; and a transmission circuit to wirelessly transmit through a Bluetooth usage each modified audio stream to the respective wireless audio device for emission by the wireless audio devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Girardier, Julien Goupy, Vincent Nallatamby
  • Patent number: 11223900
    Abstract: The Bluetooth device (DEV) controlling a plurality of wireless audio devices, comprises: a wireless communication circuit, to receive a wireless audio device identifier from each wireless audio device; a sound processing circuit to apply independent audio effects on a main audio stream such that the sound processing circuit outputs as many modified audio streams as the wireless communication circuit has received identifiers of wireless audio devices, on the basis of the characteristics of each wireless audio device; an allocation circuit to allocate each modified audio stream to a respective wireless audio device, a transmission circuit to wirelessly transmit through a Bluetooth usage each modified audio stream to said respective wireless audio device for emission by the wireless audio devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Girardier, Julien Goupy, Vincent Nallatamby
  • Publication number: 20210195330
    Abstract: The Bluetooth device (DEV) controlling a plurality of wireless audio devices, comprises: a wireless communication circuit, to receive a wireless audio device identifier from each wireless audio device; a sound processing circuit to apply independent audio effects on a main audio stream such that the sound processing circuit outputs as many modified audio streams as the wireless communication circuit has received identifiers of wireless audio devices, on the basis of the characteristics of each wireless audio device; an allocation circuit to allocate each modified audio stream to a respective wireless audio device, a transmission circuit to wirelessly transmit through a Bluetooth usage each modified audio stream to said respective wireless audio device for emission by the wireless audio devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas GIRARDIER, Julien GOUPY, Vincent NALLATAMBY