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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2018
Applicant:
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jonathan Moeller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/02 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/304 (2013.01); H04S 7/301 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01);
Abstract
Sound is produced through headphones in a manner that improves user experience and increases safety. In some circumstances, such as when the user is moving during exercise, commuting, etc., an audio safety spatialization mode of the headphones is automatically activated. In this mode, sound is spatialized such that when the user turns his head, the sound appears to be generated from a same position in space as before the user turned his head. If the user's head remains in the turned position, the spatialized sound will return to an initialized position with respect to the user's head.