US 10,542,366 B1Granted

Speaker array behind a display screen

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsRobert Harvey Oates, III, Kevin Kalima Ashman

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Abstract

A content presentation system including a display screen and an array of speakers behind the display screen is described herein. In some examples, speaker-associated screen areas, the volume of a sound, and a screen location of a sound source may be used to determine one or more speakers that are associated with the sound. For example, the volume of a sound and the screen location of a sound source may be used to determine a sound range for the sound that may be used to associate one or more speakers with the sound. In some examples, upon determination of the sound range, one or more speaker-associated screen areas that are wholly or partially included within the sound range may then be identified. Each speaker that is represented by an identified speaker-associated screen area may then be associated with the sound.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more processors
one or more memories to store a set of instructions, which upon execution by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving a location of a sound source for a sound, wherein an array of speakers is positioned behind a display screen that displays a video game, wherein the sound source covers an area of a virtual structure that is displayed in the video game, wherein the virtual structure is occupied by a video game character that makes the sound, and wherein the virtual structure blocks or obstructs playing of the sound at screen areas outside of the virtual structure;
determining a first speaker included in the array of speakers and a second speaker included in the array of speakers that are overlaid by the sound source that covers the area of the virtual structure;
determining a first speaker volume of the sound for the first speaker and the second speaker;
playing, by the first speaker, the sound at the speaker volume;
and
playing, by the second speaker, the sound at the speaker volume.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/798,599Filed 31 Oct 2017 · continuation
Priority: 30 Nov 2015
Granted: 21 Jan 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04S 7/301
Control circuits for electronic adaptation of the sound field: automatic calibration of stereophonic sound system, e.g. with test microphone
H04R 5/02
Stereophonic arrangements: spatial or constructional arrangements of loudspeakers
H04S 7/30
Indicating arrangements; Control arrangements, e.g. balance control: control circuits for electronic adaptation of the sound field
H04R 2499/15
General applications: transducers incorporated in visual displaying devices, e.g. televisions, computer displays, laptops