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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:
Jul. 16, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 22, 2021
Applicant:

Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vinay Kumar Kothapally, Dallas, TX (US);

Jacob Ryan Donley, Kirkland, WA (US);

Buye Xu, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:

META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01);
Abstract

An artificial reality headset enhances audio signals from a target sound source using information from other devices in the local area. A primary headset broadcasts a location of a target sound source to secondary headsets in a local area. The secondary headsets transmit audio signals to the primary headset to enhance the audio content presented by the primary headset to a user. The secondary headset may select an array transfer function for the location of the target sound source. The secondary headsets correlate known transfer functions in the target direction with estimated transfer functions. The secondary headset may perform beamforming on the target sound source and transmit the output audio signal to the primary headset. In some embodiments, the secondary headset may transmit the array transfer function and a raw audio signal to the primary headset. The primary headset generates audio content based on the received audio signal.


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