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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Darius A. Satongar, Staffordshire, GB;
Per Håkan Linus Persson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean B. Kelly, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin E. Johnson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Tony S. Verma, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter D. Callaway, Creeting St. Peter, GB;
Jae Woo Chang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel K. Boothe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean A. Ramprashad, Los Altos, CA (US);
Patrick Miauton, Redwood City, CA (US);
Christopher M. Garrido, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mitchell R. Lerner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles C. Hoyt, Pacifica, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system outputs audio content via one or more audio output devices. If the audio content includes information that enables spatialization of the audio content, the system outputs the audio content in a simulated three-dimensional environment, including, if the audio content corresponds to a first category of content, causing the one or more audio output devices to simulate production of the audio content in a first virtual space, and if the audio content corresponds to a second category of content, causing the one or more audio output devices to simulate production of the audio content in a second virtual space that has different simulated acoustic properties than simulated acoustic properties of the first virtual space.