Ear piece with pseudolite connectivity
AssigneeBRAGI GmbH
InventorsPeter Vincent Boesen, Darko Dragicevic
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Abstract
An earpiece includes an earpiece housing and a location receiver disposed within the ear piece housing. The earpiece is configured to determine location of the earpiece using the location receiver. The ear piece is configured to generate three-dimensional sounds based on the location of the earpiece relative to location of one or more sound sources. The location receiver may be configured to receive signals from one or more pseudo satellites and use the signals to determine the location. The earpiece may be configured to receive signals from one or more terrestrial or ground-based transmitters and use the signals to determine the location. The ear piece may further include an inertial sensor disposed within the earpiece housing.
Claims13
An earpiece comprising:
- an earpiece housing;
- a location receiver disposed within the ear piece housing;
- wherein the earpiece is configured to determine location of the earpiece using the location receiver;
- wherein the ear piece is configured to generate three-dimensional sounds based on the location of the earpiece relative to location of one or more sound sources.
A system comprising:
- at least one pseudolite;
- a set of earpieces comprising a left ear piece and a right ear piece, each of the earpieces comprising an ear piece housing, at least one speaker, at least one microphone, a wireless transceiver disposed within the ear piece housing;
- and a location receiver configured to receive signals from the at least one pseudo satellite.
A method of using an earpiece comprising steps of:
- determining position of the ear piece using a location receiver disposed within the earpiece using communications from at least one terrestrial-based location transmitter;
- determining a position of a sound source;
- generating three-dimensional sound effects using the position of the sound source and the position of the ear piece;
- producing the sound effects at the ear piece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.