Displaying a Location of Binaural Sound Outside a Field of View
OwnerPhilip Scott Lyreninventor
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Abstract
A method or apparatus provides binaural sound that originates to a person at a location inside a field of view (FOV) provided to the person by an electronic device. The electronic device determines when the location of the binaural sound moves outside the FOV and assists the person in determining the location of the binaural sound. A display of the electronic device displays a visual indication that shows a direction to the location of the binaural sound outside the FOV.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- displaying, during an electronic call between a first person and a second person and with a wearable electronic device (WED) worn on a head of the first person, a virtual image of a second person in a field of view (FOV) of the first person;
- playing, with speakers and during the electronic call between the first person and the second person, binaural sound of a voice of the second person that originates to the first person at the virtual image of the second person in the FOV of the first person;
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- displaying, with the WED and during the electronic call between the first person and the second person, a smaller version of the second person at a periphery of the FOV of the first person in response to the virtual image of the second person moving outside the FOV of the first person.
A wearable electronic device (WED) worn on a head of a wearer, the WED comprising:
- a display that displays a virtual image of a person in a field of view (FOV) of the WED;
- and
- speakers that play binaural sound that externally localizes to the wearer at the virtual image of the person,
- wherein in response to the WED determining the virtual image of the person moves outside the FOV, the display displays a reduced size of the virtual image of the person at a location at a perimeter of the FOV, and the location at the perimeter of the FOV provides the wearer a direction where to look to move the FOV to include the virtual image of the person.
A wearable electronic device (WED) worn on a head of a wearer, the WED comprising:
- a display that displays a virtual image of a person in a field of view (FOV) of the WED during an electronic call between the wearer and the person,
- wherein the WED displays a smaller version of the virtual image of the person at a periphery of the FOV in response to the virtual image of the person moving outside the FOV of the WED during the electronic call between the wearer and the person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.