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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2021
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Cecilia Casarini, Reggio Emilia, IT;
Ian M. Fisch, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Jakub Mazur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mitchell R. Lerner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pablo David Brazell Ruiz, Cupertino, CA (US);
Stephen W. Ryner, Jr., Gurnee, IL (US);
Tyrone T. Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01); H04S 1/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/165 (2013.01); H04R 5/033 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01); H04S 1/007 (2013.01); H04S 7/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for headphone playback of target sound. Some of the bins of a sound file are accessed, wherein the sound file has several bins each bin storing a number of audio sections. Audio sections are selected from the accessed bins, and mixed while cross fading to form a target sound sequence. A headphone speaker is driven with the target sound sequence. Other aspects are also described and claimed.