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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2013
Thomas Alan Donaldson, London, GB;
Thomas Alan Donaldson, London, GB;
Other;
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and wearable/mobile computing devices configured to facilitate production and/or reproduction of spatial audio and/or one or more audio spaces. More specifically, disclosed are systems, components and methods to acoustically determine displacements of audios sources (or portions thereof), such as a subset of speaking users, for providing audio spaces and spatial sound field reproduction, for example, for a remote listener. In one embodiment, a media device includes transducers to emit audible acoustic signals into a region including one or more audio sources, acoustic probe transducers configured to emit ultrasonic signals and acoustic sensors configured to sense received ultrasonic signals reflected from an audio source. A controller can determine a displacement of the audio source. Examples of displacement include locomotion, gesture-related motion and orientation changes.