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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jeremy R. Fox, Georgetown, TX (US);
Trudy L. Hewitt, Cary, NC (US);
Liam S. Harpur, Skerries, IE;
John Rice, Tramore, IE;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Providing a user with an augmented sound experience include receiving an identification an object within an environment proximate a user; determining a location of the object within the environment; determining a current location of the user within the environment; and causing a speaker array to produce a sound based on the current location of the object and the current location of the user such that the sound appears, relative to the current location of the user, to originate from the current location of the object.