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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Arthur Charles Tomlin, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kendall Clark York, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jeffrey Sipko, Kirkland, WA (US);
Adolfo Hernandez Santisteban, Bothell, WA (US);
Aaron Daniel Krauss, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Examples are disclosed relating to providing spatialized audio to multiple users. In one example, a computing device presents spatialized audio to multiple users within an environment via communicative connection to one or more wearable spatial audio output devices. For each communicatively connected wearable spatial audio output device, a user-specific subset of audio tracks is generated from a set of audio tracks for a dynamic audio object positioned within the environment based on one or more user-specific parameters. A location of the wearable spatial audio output device is determined relative to the dynamic audio object, and based upon this location, a device-specific spatialized audio mix is generated that includes the user-specific subset of audio tracks. The device-specific spatialized audio mixes are sent to the wearable spatial output devices, and playback of the device-specific spatialized audio mixes are synchronously initiated at each wearable spatial audio output device.