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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2022
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Christopher T. Eubank, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Camellia G. Boutros, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 1/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 1/002 (2013.01); H04S 7/30 (2013.01); H04S 2400/07 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a method for reproducing sound of a data object, a voice signal of a data object is split into a first sub-band signal and a second sub-band signal, and speaker driver signals are generated to produce sound of the object by a two-way speaker system in which the first sub-band signal drives a tweeter or high frequency driver and the second sub-band signal drives a woofer or low frequency driver. In another aspect, the first and second sub-band signals are spatialized as virtual sources that are in different locations. Other aspects are also described and claimed.