Method to expedite playing of binaural sound to a listener
OwnerPhilip Scott Lyreninventor
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Abstract
A method expedites processing and playing of binaural sound during an electronic communication between a first user and a second user. An electronic device of the first user convolves sound into binaural sound for the second user before the binaural sound transmits to the electronic device of the second user. In this way, the binaural sound is already convolved and ready to play upon receipt at the electronic device of the second user.
Claims20
A method that improves an electronic communication between a software program and a person, the method comprising:
- processing, with a server during the electronic communication between the software program and the person and before a voice of the software program is transmitted to the person, the voice of the software program into binaural sound with customized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) of the person;
- receiving, during the electronic communication and at a portable electronic device (PED) with the person, the voice of the software program in the binaural sound processed by the server with the customized HRTFs of the person;
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- playing, with the PED to the person and during the electronic communication, the voice of the software program in the binaural sound processed by the server with the customized HRTFs such that the voice externally localizes to the person outside a head of the person.
A method that improves an electronic communication between a software program and a person, the method comprising:
- processing, with one or more servers and during the electronic communication between the software program and the person, a voice of the software program into binaural sound with customized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) of the person;
- transmitting, to a wearable electronic device (WED) of the person and during the electronic communication between the software program and the person, the voice of the software program in the binaural sound that was processed by the one or more servers with the customized HRTFs of the person;
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- playing, during the electronic communication and through speakers of the WED of the person, the voice of the software program in the binaural sound that was processed by the one or more servers with the customized HRTFs of the person,
- wherein the software program includes a machine learning agent, an intelligent user agent, or an intelligent personal assistant.
An electronic system that improves an electronic communication between a person and a software program, the electronic system comprising:
- one or more servers that process, during the electronic communication, a voice of the software program with customized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) of the person into binaural sound and transmit the voice of the software program processed with the customized HRTFs to the person;
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- a portable electronic device (PED) of the person that includes a receiver that receives the voice of the software program in the binaural sound processed with the customized HRTFs of the person by the one or more servers and one or more speakers that play the voice of the software program in the binaural sound that externally localizes outside a head of the person,
- wherein the software program includes a machine learning agent, an intelligent user agent, or an intelligent personal assistant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.