Artificial reality based system, method and computer program for pre-cueing music audio data

A system for processing audio data, comprising:

• an audio input unit for receiving audio data representing a piece of music;
• an audio processing unit for processing the audio data;
• an audio output unit for playing the audio data;
• and
• a gesture detecting apparatus for detecting a pre-cue gesture of a user, wherein
• the pre-cue gesture comprises moving a hand of the user towards an ear of the user,
• the audio processing unit is connected to the gesture detecting apparatus such as to change processing of the audio data based on the pre-cue gesture detected by the gesture detecting apparatus,
• the system provides a pre-cue mode, and when the pre-cue mode is activated, the audio processing unit is configured to set a volume of the audio data as being dependent on a hand-ear distance, and when the pre-cue mode is deactivated, the audio processing unit is configured to set a volume of the audio data as being independent from the hand-ear distance;
• and
• the system is configured to activate the pre-cue mode when the hand-ear distance is lower than a predetermined second threshold value.

A system for processing audio data, comprising:

• an audio input unit for receiving audio data representing a piece of music;
• an audio processing unit for processing the audio data;
• an audio output unit for playing the audio data;
• and
• a gesture detecting apparatus for detecting a pre-cue gesture of a user, wherein
• the pre-cue gesture comprises moving a hand of the user towards an ear of the user,
• the audio processing unit is connected to the gesture detecting apparatus such as to change processing of the audio data based on the pre-cue gesture detected by the gesture detecting apparatus,
• the gesture detecting apparatus classifies a detected hand gesture in which a hand of the user is moved towards an ear of the user as not being a pre-cue gesture, if the gesture detecting apparatus detects a substantially simultaneous movement of both hands of the user towards a head of the user.

A system for processing audio data, comprising:

• an audio input unit for receiving audio data representing a piece of music;
• an audio processing unit for processing the audio data;
• an audio output unit for playing the audio data;
• and
• a gesture detecting apparatus for detecting a pre-cue gesture of a user, wherein
• the pre-cue gesture comprises moving a hand of the user towards an ear of the user,
• the audio processing unit is connected to the gesture detecting apparatus such as to change processing of the audio data based on the pre-cue gesture detected by the gesture detecting apparatus,
• the audio output unit is a multichannel unit configured to output the audio data as multichannel audio data via at least a left channel and a right channel
• the audio processing unit includes a spatial audio unit configured to generate the multichannel audio data as spatial audio data based on a given spatial source position of a sound source;
• the gesture detecting apparatus is configured to detect a position in space of the hand of the user;
• and
• the spatial audio unit is configured to generate the multichannel audio data based on the detected position of the hand of the user, such that the audio data are audible for the user as coming from the detected position in space of the hand of the user.

A system for processing audio data, comprising:

• an audio input unit for receiving audio data representing a piece of music;
• an audio processing unit for processing the audio data;
• a first audio input unit for receiving first audio data representing a first piece of music;
• a second audio input unit for receiving second audio data representing a second piece of music different from the first piece of music;
• an audio output unit for playing the audio data;
• and
• a gesture detecting apparatus for detecting a pre-cue gesture of a user, wherein
• the pre-cue gesture comprises moving a hand of the user towards an ear of the user,
• the audio processing unit is connected to the gesture detecting apparatus such as to change processing of the audio data based on the pre-cue gesture detected by the gesture detecting apparatus, and
• the audio processing unit is configured to process at least one of the first audio data and the second audio data;
• and
• the audio processing unit is connected to the gesture detecting apparatus and the audio output unit such as to activate a first pre-cue mode in which the audio output unit outputs exclusively or predominantly the first audio data, when the gesture detecting apparatus detects the pre-cue gesture.