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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2021
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby International Ab, Dublin, IE;
Mark R. P. Thomas, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Daniel Arteaga, Barcelona, ES;
Christopher Graham Hines, Sydney, AU;
Davide Scaini, Barcelona, ES;
Benjamin Southwell, Gledswood Hills, AU;
Avery Bruni, San Francisco, CA (US);
Olha Michelle Townsend, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby International AB, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
Some methods involve causing a plurality of audio devices in an audio environment to reproduce audio data, each audio device of the plurality of audio devices including at least one loudspeaker and at least one microphone, determining audio device location data including an audio device location for each audio device of the plurality of audio devices and obtaining microphone data from each audio device of the plurality of audio devices. Some methods involve determining a mutual audibility for each audio device of the plurality of audio devices relative to each other audio device of the plurality of audio devices, determining a user location of a person in the audio environment, determining a user location audibility of each audio device of the plurality of audio devices at the user location and controlling one or more aspects of audio device playback based, at least in part, on the user location audibility.