TELEMETRIC CONTEXTUALLY BASED SPATIAL AUDIO SYSTEM INTEGRATED INTO A MOBILE TERMINAL WIRELESS SYSTEM
Patent №
US 7,130,759
Granted
2006-10-31
Filed 2004
Owner
SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Lab
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AI components
2
speech · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
11019313
A telemetric contextually based spatial audio system is integrated into a mobile terminal including a headset and antenna. The headset includes an electronic compass which determines head orientation data for the user. The terminal's geographical position can either be determined locally (e.g. onboard GPS) or by network triangulation. The orientation and position data are sent to a server which overlays the position and head orientation data onto a locally stored “floor plan”, describing an object(s) of interest. The floor plan relates the user's viewpoint to a database of contextual audio clips. A regionally significant portion of the database and respective triggers are sent to the terminal. The terminal using the database information recalculates which audio clip(s) to play. The terminal then convolves the respective audio clip(s) via an impulse response function so as to be perceived by the user as emanating from the exact spatial position of the object specified by the system.
AI classification
Ownership
SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
assignment · 264820878
Assignors
WILLINS, BRUCE A., VOLLKOMMER, RICHARD M., KATZ, JOSEPH
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