Gracenote Audio EQ Technology Bowing at CES Based on Recent Patents
Audio equalization technology that Gracenote is introducing at CES to enhance music playback in the car is based on offering automated help for people who don't know how to manually adjust their music players, or don’t want to fiddle with…
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manual controls while driving, we found in a patent search from the unit of Tribune Media. Patent filings from September 2013 (US 20150073574) and January 2014 (US 20150194151) cover the automatic adjustment of audio playback settings to suit the environment. Music players problematically provide the same listening experience, regardless of type of music. Listeners may not know what audio content is coming up next, forcing them to make changes on the fly after the next song has already begun, it said. Gracenote’s idea is to help the music player identify music or speech by its mood or style immediately when it's played and automatically optimize the player controls by embedding a fingerprint of “profile information” in the content, it said. The content can be audio or video, and come over the air from a radio or TV broadcaster, from an ISP or from a download, it said. The company didn't comment Monday.