公开(公告)号：US20230199420A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-22

申请号：US17556882

申请日：2021-12-20

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Victoria Dorn ,  Brandon Sangston

IPC: H04S7/00 ,  G06T19/00

CPC classification number: H04S7/303 ,  G06T19/006 ,  H04S7/301 ,  H04S7/305 ,  A63F13/54 ,  H04S2400/11 ,  H04S2400/13 ,  H04S2400/15

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for augmenting voice output of a virtual character in an augmented reality (AR) scene. The method includes examining, by a server, the AR scene, said AR scene includes a real-world space and the virtual character overlaid into the real-world space at a location, the real-world space includes a plurality of real-world objects present in the real-world space. The method includes processing, by the server, to identify an acoustics profile associated with the real-world space, said acoustics profile including reflective sound and absorbed sound associated with real-world objects proximate to the location of the virtual character. The method includes processing, by the server, the voice output by the virtual character while interacting in the AR scene; the processing is configured to augment the voice output based on the acoustics profile of the real-world space, the augmented voice output being audible by an AR user viewing the virtual character in the real-world space. In this way, when the voice output of the virtual character is augmented, the augmented voice output may sound more realistic to the AR user as if the virtual character is physically present in the same real-world space as the AR user.