H04S 7/302
Electronic adaptation of stereophonic sound system to listener position or orientation
Official title: {Electronic adaptation of stereophonic sound system to listener position or orientation (H04S7/301 takes precedence)}
H04S7/302 (Electronic adaptation of stereophonic sound system to listener position or orientation) appears on 4,075 US grants and 5,207 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
- Signaling for rendering tools6 Oct 2026US 12,755,744 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
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- Interactive foodware systems and methods to generate data for location and movement of utensil, and controller that instructs speaker to generate audio data based on location of the utensil29 Sep 2026US 12,750,613 B2Universal City Studios LLC
- Coordination of audio devices29 Sep 2026US 12,750,621 B2Dolby International AB
- A method, device, system, and software for a computer-implemented method for playback of game audio by use of representative audio objects at runtime8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306950 A1Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Performing common audio convolutions using iso-trajectories in three dimensional (3d) space8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313308 A1Google Inc.
- Virtual sound sources and rendering techniques8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313309 A1Dolby International AB
- Audio Scene Description and Control8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313310 A1Apple Inc.
- System and method for dynamic sound reinforcement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313311 A1Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
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- Shaping sound responsive to speaker orientation476US 9,042,556 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2015
- Sound stage controller for a near-field speaker-based audio system381US 9,215,545 B2Bose Corporation · 2015
- Multi-speaker audio system and automatic control method371US 7,676,044 B2Sony Corporation · 2010
- Systems, methods, and apparatus for enhanced acoustic imaging347US 8,965,546 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated · 2015
- Spatial processing stereo system343US 8,126,172 B2Harman International Industries, Incorporated · 2012