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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Christopher T. Eubank, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lance Jabr, Los Altos, CA (US);
Matthew S. Connolly, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert D. Silfvast, Belmont, CA (US);
Sean A. Ramprashad, Los Altos, CA (US);
Carlos Avendano, Campbell, CA (US);
Miquel Espi Marques, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A first device obtains, from the array, several audio signals and processes the audio signals to produce a speech signal and one or more ambient signals. The first device processes the ambient signals to produce a sound-object sonic descriptor that has metadata describing a sound object within an acoustic environment. The first device transmits, over a communication data link, the speech signal and the descriptor to a second electronic device that is configured to spatially reproduce the sound object using the descriptor mixed with the speech signal, to produce several mixed signals to drive several speakers.