Displaying a location of binaural sound outside a field of view
OwnerPhilip Scott Lyreninventor
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Abstract
A method or apparatus provides binaural sound that originates to a person at a location inside a field of view (FOV) provided to the person by an electronic device. The electronic device determines when the location of the binaural sound moves outside the FOV and assists the person in determining the location of the binaural sound. A display of the electronic device displays a visual indication that shows a direction to the location of the binaural sound outside the FOV.
Claims18
A method executed by one or more electronic devices, the method comprising:
- providing, with the one or more electronic devices, binaural sound that originates to a person at a location in empty space inside a field of view (FOV) of a wearable electronic device (WED) worn on a head of the person;
- determining, with the one or more electronic devices, when the location of the binaural sound moves outside the FOV of the WED;
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- assisting the person in determining the location of the binaural sound that moved outside the FOV by displaying, with the WED, a visual indication that shows a direction to the location of the binaural sound outside the FOV of the WED;
- determining when the SLP of the binaural sound moves back inside the FOV of the WED;
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- removing the visual indication from being displayed in response to the SLP of the binaural sound moving back inside the FOV of the WED, wherein the binaural sound is electronically generated and externally localizes to the person at a sound localization point (SLP) at the location in empty space.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon that when executed by one or more electronic devices cause the one or more electronic devices to perform a method comprising:
- displaying, with a wearable electronic device (WED) worn on a head of a wearer, a field of view (FOV) that includes a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space from where binaural sound originates to the wearer of the WED;
- determining when a location of the SLP moves outside the FOV;
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- displaying, in response to determining that the location of the SLP moved outside the FOV, an image that notifies the wearer of the location of the SLP outside the FOV, wherein movement of the WED toward the image brings the SLP back inside the FOV of the WED;
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- displaying, with the WED, multiple images at different locations at a perimeter of the FOV with a location of each of the multiple images at the perimeter providing the wearer a direction of where to look to move the FOV to include the multiple images.
A wearable electronic device (WED) worn on a head of a person, the WED comprising:
- a display that displays a first image in a field of view (FOV) of the WED;
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- one or more processors that execute instructions to:
- provide three-dimensional (3D) sound that externally localizes to the person at a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space where the first image is displayed in the FOV,
- determine, based on tracking the SLP, when the SLP of the 3D sound and the first image move outside the FOV, and
- display, at a periphery of the FOV, a second image at a location that shows where the first image is located outside the FOV such that movement of the WED in a direction of the location of the second image moves the FOV to include the first image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.