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Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2021
Applicant:

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Marina Villanueva Barreiro, London, GB;

Calum Armstrong, London, GB;

Danjeli Schembri, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/303 (2013.01); H04S 2420/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

An audio personalisation method for a first user includes: testing a first user on a calibration test, the calibration test comprising requiring a user to match a test sound to a test location, either by controlling the position of the presented sound or controlling the position of the presented location, for a sequence of test matches, each test sound being presented at a position using a default head related transfer function 'HRTF', receiving an estimate of each matching location from the first user, and calculating a respective error for each estimate, to generate a sequence of location estimate errors for the first user; and comparing at least some of the location estimate errors for the first user with estimate errors of the same locations previously generated for at least a subset of a corpus of reference individuals; identifying a reference individual with the closest match of compared location estimation errors to those of the first user; and using an HRTF, previously obtained for the identified reference individual, for the first user.


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