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US 11,606,660 B2Granted
Electronic glasses that provide binaural sound
OwnerGlen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyreninventors
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Abstract
Electronic glasses track head movement of a user with respect to a location in empty space on top of a physical object. One or more processors process sound that externally localizes as binaural sound to the location in empty space on top of the physical object. Speakers in the electronic glasses provide the binaural sound to the user.
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A method comprising:
- designating, with a smartphone held in a hand of a user, a location in empty space on top of a physical object that is away from the user such that the location in empty space is an origin of binaural sound that the user hears;
- tracking, with electronic glasses worn on a head of the user and in communication with the smartphone, head movements of the user with respect to the location in empty space on top of the physical object;
- processing, with one or more processors in the smartphone, the binaural sound that continues to localize at the location in empty space on top of the physical object while the head of the user moves;
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- providing, through speakers in the electronic glasses, the binaural sound that localizes at the location in empty space on top of the physical object.
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A method comprising:
- designating, with a smartphone held in a hand of a user, a location in empty space on top of a physical object where an origin of binaural sound originates to the user;
- tracking, with electronic glasses worn on a head of the user and in communication with the smartphone, head movements of the user;
- processing, with one or more processors in the electronic glasses, the binaural sound that continues to localize at the location in empty space on top of the physical object while the head of the user moves;
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- playing, through speakers in the electronic glasses, the binaural sound that localizes at the location in empty space on top of the physical object.
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Electronic glasses, comprising:
- an interface that receives, from a smartphone in communication with the electronic glasses, binaural sound processed with head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) having a sound localization point (SLP) that occurs at a location in empty space on top of a physical object that is in a physical environment of a wearer of the electronic glasses;
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- speakers that play the binaural sound that externally localizes to the wearer of the electronic glasses at the SLP that occurs at the location in empty space on top of the physical object that is in the physical environment of the wearer of the electronic glasses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.