Moving an emoji to move a location of binaural sound
OwnerPhilip Scott Lyreninventor
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Abstract
During an electronic communication between a first user and a second user, an electronic device of the second user displays a graphical representation at a located selected by the first user. The graphical representation provides an indication to the second user where binaural sound associated with the graphical representation will externally localize to the second user. Subsequent movement of the graphical representation changes a location where the binaural sound externally localizes to the second user.
Claims19
A method executed by one or more electronic devices during an electronic communication between a first user with an electronic device and a second user with an electronic device, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the electronic device of the second user and from the electronic device of the first user, an emoji that plays binaural sound that externally localizes at a first location with respect to a head of the second user when sound of the emoji plays to the second user;
- and
- displaying, with a display of the electronic device of the second user, a visual indication that forms part of the emoji that shows the first location where the binaural sound will externally localize with respect to the head of the second user when the sound of the emoji plays to the second user.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that one or more electronic devices execute in a computer system in which a first person with a first portable electronic device (PED) communicates with a second person with a second PED, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the second PED and from the first PED, a first location where binaural sound will externally localize to the second person upon activation of an emoji;
- and
- displaying, with the second PED, the first location as part of the emoji that shows where the binaural sound will externally localize to the second person upon activation of the emoji.
A method comprising:
- improving an electronic communication between a first user with a portable electronic device (PED) and a second user with a PED by:
- displaying, with the PED of the second user, an emoji that includes a visual indication that shows a first location where binaural sound will externally localize outside a head of the second user;
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- expediting playing of the binaural sound to the second user by processing, before receiving a command from the second user to play sound of the emoji, the sound of the emoji into the binaural sound in anticipation of receiving the command by the second user to play the binaural sound at the first location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.