BANG & OLUFSEN A/S

Aspects provide methods of audio reproduction including determining dynamic position information including positions of one or more loudspeakers and/or a listener within the local reproduction system relative to a reference point. A method includes automatically applying one or more adaptive sweetspot parameters to an audio signal based on the dynamic position information and automatically controlling a directivity of the one or more loudspeakers based on the dynamic position information and the one or more adaptive sweetspot parameters. A method includes determining a directivity of the loudspeaker within the local reproduction system based on the dynamic position information and automatically enabling or disabling an adaptive sweetspot function based on the directivity of the loudspeaker. The methods include rendering the corrected audio signal to the local reproduction system based on the directivity of the one or more loudspeakers and the adaptive sweetspot parameters.

The disclosure provides an approach for generating a personalized audio album. A method includes receiving one or more input images, from a user, at a large language model; determining, by the large language model, whether the one or more images directly or indirectly reference one or more musical artists, one or more musical albums, or one or more musical songs; and in response to determining that at least one of the one or more images does not directly or indirectly reference one or more musical artists, one or more musical albums, or one or more musical songs: identifying one or more features of the at least one image; generating, based on the one or more features, an audio playlist and at least one of: an album title or an album cover art image; and displaying the audio playlist and the album title and/or the album cover art image.

The disclosure provides an approach for adaptive loudspeaker and listener positioning compensation. A method of adaptively correcting a sound image is provided. The method includes obtaining an audio signal associated with one or more audio channels and each audio channel is associated with a position of an audio source with respect to a reference point within a local reproduction system. The method includes determining dynamic position information. The dynamic position information includes positions of one or more loudspeakers within the local reproduction system relative to the reference point, a position of a listener relative to the reference point, positions of the one or more loudspeakers relative to the listener, or a combination thereof. The method includes applying one or more correction gains and one or more correction time delays to the audio signal based on the dynamic position information and rendering the audio signal to the local reproduction system.

A loudspeaker transducer arrangement is provided. At least three loudspeaker transducer units emit sound in different directions, where the loudspeaker transducer units are arranged in separate walls, arranged in separate planes, such that a first wall arranged in the first plane is defined by a normal L 1 perpendicular to the first plane and the first loudspeaker transducer unit mainly emits sound along the normal L 1 , a second wall arranged in the second plane is defined by a normal L 2 perpendicular to the second plane and the second loudspeaker transducer unit emits sound mainly along the normal L 2 , and a third wall arranged in the third plane is defined by a normal L 3 perpendicular to the third plane and the third loudspeaker transducer unit emits sound mainly along the normal L 3 . A soundbar is also provided.

In general, a user-location device is configured to receive, from an audio-output device, an ultra-wideband (UWB) signal; determine, based on the UWB signal, a first relative location of the audio-output device; determine, based on a detected millimeter-wave (MMW) signal, a second relative location of one or more persons; determine, based on the first relative location and the second relative location, a relative orientation between the audio-output device and the one or more persons; and transmit, to the audio-output device, an indication of the relative orientation.

A wearable audio device can include at least one speaker; a first sensor configured to sense sound related to the at least one speaker and provide a first sensor signal; a second sensor configured to sense sound external to the wearable device and provide a second sensor signal; active noise cancellation (ANC) circuitry configured to provide at least a third signal and fourth signal, wherein the third signal is a music compensated first sensor signal and the fourth signal is an ANC signal; at least one active vent; and at least one processor configured to: receive the first sensor signal, the second sensor signal, the third signal and the fourth signal to determine whether a trigger threshold is met, and if the trigger threshold is met, send a control signal to the at least one active vent to cause the at least one active vent to open or close.

A system for providing a multi-user media experience, comprising a jukebox service ( 4 ) running on a server ( 3 ) accessible through a data network, an entertainment system ( 1 ) connected to the server ( 3 ), and a hosting application ( 5 ) connected to the server ( 3 ). The jukebox service ( 4 ) is configured to receive instructions from the hosting application to create a jukebox session, communicate a session identifier to the hosting application, receive a connection request from at least one mobile device, each request including the session identifier, receive user input via the mobile devices ( 6 ), and communicate instructions to the entertainment system ( 1 ) to playback media content based on the user input. According to the invention, there is no need for dedicated jukebox hardware and no need for guests to connect to the host's IT environment.

Techniques, computing devices, and systems for location based audio processing are described. An example technique includes determining, at a point in time, a location of a user within an environment including one or more audio reproduction devices. A set of audio processing parameters is determined based on the location of the user. The set of audio processing parameters is applied to at least one audio reproduction device of the one or more audio reproduction devices while audio content is output from the at least one audio reproduction device.