System having device-mount audio mode
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorAram M. Lindahl
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Abstract
A system having a head-mounted display (HMD) mount and a mobile device, are described. A processor of the system can determine whether the mobile device is mounted on the HMD mount and handle an audio signal communicated from the mobile device to a wireless headphone based on whether the mobile device is mounted on the HMD mount. When the mobile device is not mounted on the HMD mount, the mobile device or the wireless headphone may operate in a first audio mode. When the mobile device is mounted on the HMD mount, the mobile device or the wireless headphone may operate in a second audio mode. The second audio mode can reduce audio signal latency between the mobile device and the wireless headphone and increase motion-to-sound quality. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims20
A system, comprising a mobile device including a device processor, the system configured to:
- detect an adjacency between the mobile device and a head-mounted display (HMD) mount;
- transmit an audio signal from the device processor to a wireless headphone;
- and
- change an audio mode of one or more of the mobile device or the wireless headphone from a first audio mode to a second audio mode in response to detecting the adjacency between the mobile device and the HMD mount, wherein the device processor or a wireless headphone processor of the wireless headphone is configured to process the audio signal differently in the second audio mode than in the first audio mode.
A method, comprising:
- detecting by a device processor of a mobile device, an adjacency between the mobile device and an HMD mount;
- receiving, by the wireless headphone processor of a wireless headphone, an audio signal from the device processor of the mobile device;
- and
- changing, by one or more of the wireless headphone processor or the device processor, an audio mode of the wireless headphone or the mobile device from a first audio mode to a second audio mode in response to detecting the adjacency between the mobile device and the HMD mount, wherein the one or more of the wireless headphone processor or the device processor is configured to process the audio signal differently in the second audio mode than in the first audio mode.
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of a system, causes the system to perform a method comprising:
- detecting an adjacency between a mobile device and a head-mounted display (HMD) mount;
- transmitting an audio signal from the mobile device to a wireless headphone;
- and
- changing an audio mode of one or more of the mobile device or the wireless headphone from a first audio mode to a second audio mode in response to detecting the adjacency between the mobile device and the HMD mount, wherein one or more of a device processor of the mobile device or a wireless headphone processor of the wireless headphone is configured to process the audio signal differently in the second audio mode than in the first audio mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.