Experience Localizing Binaural Sound During a Telephone Call
OwnerGlen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyreninventors
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Methods and apparatus improve a user experience during telephone calls or other forms of communication in which a listener localizes electronically generated binaural sounds. The sound is convolved or processed to a location that is behind or near a source of the sound so that the listener perceives the location of the sound as originating from the source of the sound.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A method executed by a head mounted display (HMD) worn on a head of a user, the method comprising:
- displaying, with the HMD, a sound source to the user;
- playing, with speakers in the HMD, binaural sound that localizes to the sound source;
- sensing, with one or more sensors in the HMD, when the user is moving;
- and
- lowering, by the HMD, a volume of the binaural sound playing through the speakers that localizes to the sound source in response to the HMD sensing the user is moving.
A method executed by a head mounted display (HMD) worn on a head of a user, the method comprising:
- displaying, with the HMD, a sound source to the user;
- and
- playing, with speakers in the HMD, binaural sound that localizes to the user along a line-of-sight that occurs behind the sound source at which the user is looking.
A head mounted display (HMD) worn on a head of a user, the HMD comprising:
- a display that displays a virtual image;
- speakers that play binaural sound that originates to the user at the virtual image;
- and
- one or more sensors that sense movement of the user that includes walking or running, wherein the HMD lowers a volume of the binaural sound that originates to the user at the virtual image in response to the one or more sensors sensing the movement of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.