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US 2025/0050220 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for enhancing sound produced by a gaming application
AssigneeSTEELSERIES ApS
InventorsJacob Wolff-Petersen, Tino Soelberg, Ed Guntin
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Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computing device having a controller to modify sound produced by a gaming application according to an otological profile of a user. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A computing device, comprising:
- a memory storing instructions;
- and
- a controller coupled to the memory, wherein the controller, responsive to executing the instructions, performs operations comprising:
- adjusting an otological profile of a user of the computing device, wherein the adjusting is based upon a particular sound generated by a software application executing on a device communicatively coupled with the computing device, resulting in an adjusted otological profile;
- sampling the particular sound of the software application to obtain a first time domain signal;
- translating the first time domain signal to a frequency domain signal;
- processing the frequency domain signal according to the adjusted otological profile to create a processed signal;
- translating the processed signal to a second time domain signal to obtain an adjusted sound, wherein the adjusted sound is frequency shifted from that of the particular sound;
- and
- audibly presenting the adjusted sound to the user.
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A method comprising:
- adjusting, by a system comprising a processor, an otological profile of a user based upon a particular sound generated by a software application, resulting in an adjusted otological profile;
- modifying, by the system, a sound in accordance with the adjusted otological profile to obtain a modified sound;
- and
- audibly presenting, by the system, the modified sound to the user,
- wherein the otological profile is generated from a hearing test performed by the user, the modifying comprises adjusting spectral aspects of the sound, and the modified sound is frequency shifted from that of the sound.
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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions which, responsive to being executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- adjusting an otological profile of a user based upon a particular sound generated by a software application, resulting in an adjusted otological profile;
- modifying a sound in accordance with a spectral adjustment defined in the adjusted otological profile to obtain a modified sound that is frequency shifted from that of the sound;
- and
- presenting the modified sound, wherein an ability of the user to hear the modified sound is enhanced relative to the sound.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.