Information Presentation Through Ambient Sounds
AssigneeCURIOUS Corporation
InventorsAnthony Mark Jones, Bruce A. Young
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Abstract
A computer system detects an object in a field-of-view (FOV) using at least one sensor coupled to the computer system and determines a shape of the object using a processor of the computer system. The gaze direction of a user of the computer system is determined using at least one sensor coupled to the system. If the object shape intersecting with the current gaze direction has an associated ambient sound that conveys information about the object, the sound is presented using one or speakers coupled to the computer system.
Claims20
A method for providing sound to a user, the method comprising:
- detecting a gaze direction of an eye of the user using gaze detection hardware;
- selecting an object based on the gaze direction;
- obtaining information related to the object;
- choosing a sound based on the information;
- retrieving a digital representation of the sound;
- and
- rendering the digital representation of the sound to the user.
An article of manufacture comprising a tangible medium, that is not a transitory propagating signal, encoding computer-readable instructions that, when applied to a computer system, instruct the computer system to perform a method comprising:
- detecting a gaze direction of an eye of a user using gaze detection hardware;
- establishing a position of an object in a field of view of the user using a sensor;
- defining a boundary around the object;
- determining that the gaze direction intersects the boundary around the object;
- obtaining information associated with the object;
- choosing a sound based on the information;
- and
- playing the sound to the user.
A head-mounted display (HMD) comprising:
- a display;
- a structure, coupled to the display and adapted to position the display in a field-of-view (FOV) of the user;
- an eye gaze detection subsystem, coupled to the structure;
- a sound reproduction device, coupled to the structure;
- and
- a processor, coupled to the display, the eye gaze detection subsystem, and the sound reproduction device, the processor configured to:
- detect a gaze direction of an eye of a wearer of the HMD using the eye gaze detection subsystem;
- select an object based on the gaze direction;
- obtain information related to the object;
- choose a sound based on the information;
- retrieve a digital representation of the sound;
- and
- render the digital representation of the sound to the user through the at least one sound reproduction device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.