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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 16, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Margaret H. Tam, San Jose, CA (US);

Xiaoyuan Tu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alexander Singh Alvarado, San Jose, CA (US);

Adam S. Howell, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); G01C 21/18 (2006.01); H04M 1/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/304 (2013.01); H04R 5/033 (2013.01); H04S 3/004 (2013.01); H04S 3/008 (2013.01); H04S 2400/01 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01); H04S 2420/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a method comprises: estimating a first gravity direction in a source device reference frame for a source device; estimating a second gravity direction in a headset reference frame for a headset; estimating a rotation transform from the headset frame into a face reference frame using the first and second estimated gravity directions, a rotation transform from a camera reference frame to the source device reference frame, and a rotation transform from the face reference frame to the camera reference frame; estimating a relative position and attitude using source device motion data, headset motion data and the rotation transform from the headset frame to the face reference frame; using the relative position and attitude to estimate a head pose; and using the estimated head pose to render spatial audio for playback on the headset.


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