US Patent Issued to Sonos on Nov. 25 for "Playback device self-calibration using PCA-based room response estimation" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,848, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Playback device self-calibration using PCA-based room response estimation" was invented by Wenyu Jin (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Patrick Kevin McPherson (Somerville, Mass.) and Adib Mehrabi (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques described herein relate to calibration of a playback device. Using example techniques, a playback device may self-calibrate by measuring a self-response and using a transfer function to map the self-response to an estimate of a room response. The playback device may determine calibration settings to at least partially offset a...