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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2019
Applicant:
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ravish Mehra, Tacoma, WA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/304 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 5/033 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01); H04S 3/008 (2013.01); H04S 2400/01 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01); H04S 2420/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to a headset that filters sounds according to a direction of a gaze of a user wearing the headset. The user wears the headset including an eye tracking unit and one or more microphones. The eye tracking unit tracks an orientation of an eye of the user to determine the direction of the gaze of the user. The direction of the gaze may be different from a facing direction of the headset. According to the determined direction of the gaze of the user, input sound signals generated by the microphones can be beamformed to amplify or emphasize sound originating from the direction of the gaze.