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Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2021
Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Fabio Cappello, London, GB;

Michael Lee Jones, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); A63F 13/54 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/30 (2013.01); A63F 13/54 (2014.09); A63F 2300/6081 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method comprises generating a first environment representation for rendering a video representation of a virtual environment; and generating a second environment representation for rendering an audio output at a virtual listening position within the virtual environment in response to sounds generated by one or more virtual sound sources within the virtual environment; in which the first and second environment representations comprise respective different geometrical representations of the virtual environment; in which the step of generating the second environment representation comprises: generating a starting version of the second environment representation; and modifying the starting version of the second environment representation.


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