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公开(公告)号：US12175159B1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-24
申请号：US18487893
申请日：2023-10-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Nikolas T. Vitt , Jonathan D. Sheaffer , Neal D. Evans , Christopher T. Eubank , Jae Hwang Lee
Abstract: A method performed by a processor of a computer system including a headset that is to be worn on a head of a user. The method drives a speaker of the headset with an input audio signal to output sound into an environment. The method determines that the speaker is at least partially covered with a cupped hand. In response to determining that the speaker is at least partially covered with the cupped hand, applying a gain to the input audio signal to reduce an output sound level of the speaker.
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公开(公告)号：US12061278B1
公开(公告)日：2024-08-13
申请号：US18346162
申请日：2023-06-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher T. Eubank , Martin E. Johnson , Daniel K. Boothe , Jonathan D. Sheaffer
CPC classification number: G01S3/8083 , G06F16/686 , H04R3/005 , H04S7/301
Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for a multimedia device with audio and video capturing capability to identify an audio device based on acoustic playback signal if the audio device cannot be identified from captured video. The multimedia device may assemble a list of candidate audio devices that are a possible match for the observed audio device from a database of previously recognized audio devices and may transmit commands to the candidate audio devices to play acoustic identification signals. The acoustic identification signals may be audible sound or ultrasonic tone sequences with embedded identification information unique to each audio device. The multimedia device may record and analyze the acoustic identification signals received from any of the candidate audio devices to construct metrics to select the most likely candidate for the observed audio device. The metrics may include time of flight, direction of arrival, received amplitude, direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR) of the acoustic identification signals.
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公开(公告)号：US12009877B1
公开(公告)日：2024-06-11
申请号：US16937433
申请日：2020-07-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher T. Eubank , Tomlinson Holman , Martin E. Johnson
IPC: H04S7/00 , H04B17/318 , H04R3/12 , H04R5/033 , H04R5/04
CPC classification number: H04B17/318 , H04R3/12 , H04R5/033 , H04R5/04 , H04S7/304 , H04S2420/01
Abstract: Spatializing audio can include determining a draw-away curve of an audio signal and modifying the draw-away curve based on a strength of the audio signal. The strength can be determined prior to spatializing the audio signal. The audio signal can be attenuated or modified based on the modified draw-away curve. The attenuated or modified audio signal can be spatialized. Other aspects are described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号：US20240107113A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-28
申请号：US18368685
申请日：2023-09-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Danvin Ruangchan , David M. Cole , Joshua J. Taylor , Christopher T. Eubank , Samir Gehani , Travis W. Brown , Shai Messingher Lang
IPC: H04N21/44 , H04N21/414 , H04N21/45 , H04N21/81
CPC classification number: H04N21/44008 , H04N21/41407 , H04N21/4532 , H04N21/816
Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide video content (e.g., a TV show, a recorded sporting event, a movie, a 3D video, etc.) within a 3D environment using parameters selected based on one or more contextual factors. Such contextual factors may be determined based on an attribute of the content (e.g., its intended purpose or viewing environment), the user (e.g., the user's visual quality, interpupillary distance, etc.), the 3D environment (e.g., current lighting conditions, spatial considerations, etc.), or other context attributes.
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公开(公告)号：US11902772B1
公开(公告)日：2024-02-13
申请号：US18057584
申请日：2022-11-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Paul Meade , Christopher T. Eubank , Neal D. Evans , Nikolas T. Vitt
CPC classification number: H04S7/304 , G10K11/17873 , G10K15/08 , H04R1/406 , H04R3/005 , H04R5/027 , H04R5/033 , H04R5/04 , H04S7/306 , G10K2210/1081 , G10K2210/3044 , H04R2420/07 , H04R2499/15 , H04S2400/15
Abstract: A system including an audio source device having a first microphone and a first speaker for directing sound into an environment in which the audio source device is located and a wireless audio receiver device having a second microphone and a second speaker for directing sound into a user's ear. The audio source device is configured to 1) capture, using the firs microphone, speech of the user as a first audio signal, 2) reduce noise in the first audio signal to produce a speech signal, and 3) drive the first speaker with the speech signal. The wireless audio receiver device is configured to 1) capture, using the second microphone, a reproduction of the speech produced by the first speaker as a second audio signal and 2) drive the second speaker with the second audio signal to output the reproduction of the speech.
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公开(公告)号：US11832086B2
公开(公告)日：2023-11-28
申请号：US18087214
申请日：2022-12-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher T. Eubank , Matthew S. Connolly , Stephen E. Pinto
CPC classification number: H04S7/304 , G06F3/165 , H04S3/008 , H04S2400/01 , H04S2400/03 , H04S2400/11
Abstract: Channels of audio data in a spatial audio object are associated with any one or more of a direction and a location of one or more recorded sounds, which channels are to be reproduced as spatial sound. A visualized spatial sound object represents a snapshot/thumbnail of the spatial sound. To preview the spatial sound (by experiencing its snapshot or thumbnail), a user manipulates the orientation of the visualized spatial sound object, and a weighted downmix of the channels is rendered for output as a spatial preview sound, e.g., a single output audio signal is provided to a spatial audio renderer; one or more of the channels that are oriented toward the user are emphasized in the preview sound, more than channels that are oriented away from the user. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号：US11805347B2
公开(公告)日：2023-10-31
申请号：US16951103
申请日：2020-11-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Neal D. Evans , James W. VanDyke , Andrew M. Hulva , Robert D. Silfvast , Christopher T. Eubank
CPC classification number: H04R1/1008 , G02B27/017 , H03G5/025 , H04R5/02 , H04R5/0335
Abstract: A display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a detachable speaker unit. The head-mounted display unit outputs visual content to a user and provides a visual pass-through of a real environment to the user. The detachable speaker unit is detachably coupleable to the head-mounted display unit for providing aural content to the user. At least one of the visual content or the aural content is changed according to a position of the detachable speaker unit relative to the head-mounted display unit.
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公开(公告)号：US20230099275A1
公开(公告)日：2023-03-30
申请号：US17818652
申请日：2022-08-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ronald J. Guglielmone, JR. , Christopher T. Eubank
IPC: H04R5/04
Abstract: A method performed by a programmed processor of an electronic device. The device obtains an audio signal, obtains, using one or more microphones, a microphone signal that includes audio of an environment in which the electronic device is located. The device determines a context of the device, and selects a volume compensation model from several models based on the determined context. The device processes the audio signal according to the selected volume compensation model and the microphone signal, and uses the processed audio signal to drive one or more speakers of the device.
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公开(公告)号：US11523244B1
公开(公告)日：2022-12-06
申请号：US16897188
申请日：2020-06-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Paul Meade , Christopher T. Eubank , Neal D. Evans , Nikolas T. Vitt
Abstract: A system including an audio source device having a first microphone and a first speaker for directing sound into an environment in which the audio source device is located and a wireless audio receiver device having a second microphone and a second speaker for directing sound into a user's ear. The audio source device is configured to 1) capture, using the first microphone, speech of the user as a first audio signal, 2) reduce noise in the first audio signal to produce a speech signal, and 3) drive the first speaker with the speech signal. The wireless audio receiver device is configured to 1) capture, using the second microphone, a reproduction of the speech produced by the first speaker as a second audio signal and 2) drive the second speaker with the second audio signal to output the reproduction of the speech.
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公开(公告)号：US20210397407A1
公开(公告)日：2021-12-23
申请号：US17322691
申请日：2021-05-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher T. Eubank , Devin W. Chalmers , Kirill Kalinichev , Rahul Nair , Thomas G. Salter
IPC: G06F3/16 , H04R1/10 , G10L25/78 , H04R1/08 , H04R1/40 , H04R3/00 , G06F3/01 , G06K9/00 , G10K11/178 , G10L25/51 , G10K11/175
Abstract: A method performed by an audio system comprising a headset. The method sends a playback signal containing user-desired audio content to drive a speaker of the headset that is being worn by a user, receives a microphone signal from a microphone that is arranged to capture sounds within an ambient environment in which the user is located, performs a speech detection algorithm upon the microphone signal to detect speech contained therein, in response to a detection of speech, determines that the user intends to engage in a conversation with a person who is located within the ambient environment, and, in response to determining that the user intends to engage in the conversation, adjusts the playback signal based on the user-desired audio content.
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