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US 10,834,516 B2Granted
Smartphone processes a voice in a telephone call to a familiar location
OwnerPhilip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norrisinventors
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Abstract
A smartphone analyzes prior telephone calls and determines a familiar sound localization point (SLP). The smartphone processes a voice in a telephone call so the voice externally localizes to a user of the smartphone as binaural sound from the familiar SLP.
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A method comprising:
- determining, by a smartphone, a familiar sound localization point (SLP) by analyzing SLPs in prior telephone calls where voices in the prior telephone calls externally localized as binaural sound to a person;
- processing, by the smartphone, a voice in a telephone call so the voice externally localizes as binaural sound from the familiar SLP that is external to the person and at a far field distance from the person;
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- providing, by the smartphone and to earphones or headphones, the voice in the binaural sound to the person so the voice externally localizes from the familiar SLP that is external to the person and at the far field distance from the person.
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A method to process a voice in a telephone call to an external sound localization point (SLP) that is familiar to a user, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a smartphone, the telephone call that will externally localize to the user as binaural sound;
- determining, by the smartphone and based on analysis of prior telephone calls, a preferred SLP that is familiar to the user where the user previously localized voices in the prior telephone calls;
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- processing, with a processor in the smartphone, the voice in the telephone call so the voice plays through earphones or headphones and externally localizes to the user at the preferred SLP that is familiar to the user, wherein the preferred SLP is at a far field distance from the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.