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US 12,732,770 B2Granted
Enhanced audio using personal audio device
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsChristopher T. Eubank, Ronald J. Guglielmone, Jr.
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Abstract
A head-worn device can determine that a playback device is outputting audio content. A microphone of the head-worn device can sense the audio content that is output by the playback device. Spatial filters can be applied to one or more audio channels of additional audio content that complements the audio content output by the playback device. The resulting spatialized audio can be played through speakers to a user wearing the head-worn device.
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A method comprising:
- obtaining a microphone signal produced by a microphone of a head-worn device;
- determining that a playback device, a distance away from a user wearing the head-worn device, is outputting audio content from one or more speakers of the playback device;
- determining that the microphone signal includes the audio content that is output by the one or more speakers of the playback device;
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- applying one or more filters to one or more audio channels based on a location of the playback device resulting in spatialized audio that is used to drive speakers of the head-worn device, wherein a camera of the head-worn device is used to determine that visual content presented by the playback device is associated with the audio content, and in response to the visual content being associated with the audio content, the one or more filters are applied to the one or more audio channels resulting in the spatialized audio that is used to drive the speakers of the head-worn device.
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A head-worn device having:
- one or more microphones that produce one or more microphone signals, speakers, and a processor, configured to perform the following:
- determining that a playback device, a distance away from a user wearing the head-worn device, is outputting audio content from one or more speakers of the playback device;
- determining that the one or more microphone signals includes the audio content that is output by the one or more speakers of the playback device;
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- applying one or more filters to one or more audio channels based on a location of the playback device resulting in spatialized audio that is used to drive the speakers of the head-worn device, wherein if the playback device is in a silent or mute mode, then visual content that is presented by the playback device is used to determine whether or not to apply the one or more filters to the one or more audio channels, otherwise the one or more microphone signals are used to determine whether or not to present the spatialized audio to a user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.