Hinged computing device for binaural recording
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsAdolfo Hernandez Santisteban, John Benjamin George Hesketh
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Abstract
Conventional stereo audio recordings do not factor in natural ear spacing or “head shadow” of a user's head and ears. The hinged computing devices disclosed herein incorporate a pair of microphones that approximate the user's ear-to-ear spacing and orientation, as well as a physical structure that approximates the user's head shadow. A resulting recording of the computing device's environment may be conditioned and reproduced as a binaural stereo audio feed for selective playback to the user or other users.
Claims20
A binaural computing device comprising:
- a first device component including a first microphone;
- a second device component including a second microphone, wherein the second device component is pivotally connected to the first device component, and wherein the first microphone and the second microphone are each positioned at a location of the binaural computing device distal from the pivotal connection;
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- a binaural processing module to receive audio input from the first microphone and the second microphone and incorporate a head shadow corresponding to the binaural computing device to generate a binaural audio stream.
A method of using a computing device to create a binaural recording comprising:
- pivoting a first device component with reference to a second device component to create an angle between the first device component and the second device component;
- recording an audio stream from a first microphone within the first device component and a second microphone within the second device component onto the computing device;
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- conditioning the recorded audio stream using a head shadow corresponding to the computing device to generate a binaural audio stream.
A tangible computer-readable medium containing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- record an audio stream from a first microphone within a first device component and a second microphone within a second device component onto a binaural computing device, the first device component pivotally connected to the second device component;
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- condition the recorded audio stream using a head shadow corresponding to the binaural computing device to generate a binaural audio stream.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.