Convolving a voice in a telephone call to a sound localization point that is familiar to a listener
OwnerPhilip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norrisinventors
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Abstract
A method convolves a voice in a telephone call as binaural sound to an external sound localization point (SLP) that is familiar to a user. The method analyzes SLPs in prior telephone calls where voices in the prior telephone calls externally localized as binaural sound to the user and determines, based on the analysis, a SLP that is familiar to the user where the user previously localized the voices in the prior telephone calls.
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A method comprising:
- determining, by one or more electronic devices in a computer system and for a person to a telephone call, a familiar sound localization point (SLP) by analyzing SLPs in prior telephone calls where voices in the prior telephone calls externally localized as binaural sound to the person;
- convolving, by the one or more electronic devices in the computer system, a voice of a party in the telephone call with head related transfer functions (HRTFs) so the voice externally localizes as binaural sound from the familiar SLP that is external to the person and at a far field distance from the person;
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- providing, by the one or more electronic devices in the computer system, the voice in the binaural sound to the person so the voice externally localizes from the familiar SLP that is external to the person and at the far field distance from the person.
A method to convolve a voice in a telephone call to an external sound localization point (SLP) that is familiar to a user, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a wearable electronic device (WED), the telephone call that will externally localize to the user as binaural sound;
- analyzing, by the WED, SLPs in prior telephone calls where voices of the prior telephone calls externally localized as the binaural sound to the user;
- determining, by the WED and based on analysis of the SLPs of the prior telephone calls, a preferred SLP that is familiar to the user where the user previously localized the voices in the prior telephone calls;
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- processing, with a processor in the WED, the voice in the telephone call so the voice externally localizes to the user at the preferred SLP that is familiar to the user, wherein the preferred SLP is at a far field distance from the user.
A wearable electronic device (WED) that selects where to localize voices in telephone calls as binaural sound to a user, the WED comprising:
- a memory that stores telephone numbers of people, sound localization points (SLPs) for the telephone numbers, head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) of the user that correspond to the SLPs for the telephone numbers, and instructions that when executed retrieve from the memory a SLP for a telephone number of the incoming telephone call and retrieve from the memory a pair of HRTFs that correspond to the SLP for the telephone number;
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- a digital signal processor (DSP) that receives the pair of HRTFs and convolves a voice of a caller of the incoming telephone call with the pair of HRTFs so the voice of the caller externally localizes as the binaural sound to the user at the SLP for the telephone number, wherein the SLP is a far field distance from the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.