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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026

Filed:

Aug. 19, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Prateek Murgai, San Francisco, CA (US);

John E. Arthur, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Joshua D. Atkins, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Juha O. Merimaa, San Mateo, CA (US);

Dipanjan Sen, Dublin, CA (US);

Brandon J. Rice, Pacifica, CA (US);

Alexander Singh Alvarado, San Jose, CA (US);

Jonathan D. Sheaffer, San Jose, CA (US);

Benjamin Bernard, Monaco, MC;

David E. Romblom, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/304 (2013.01);
Abstract

One or more acoustic parameters of a current acoustic environment of a user may be determined based on sensor signals captured by one or more sensors of the device. One or more preset acoustic parameters may be determined based on the one or more acoustic parameters of the current acoustic environment of the user and an acoustic environment of an audio file comprising audio signals that is determined based on the audio signals of the audio file or metadata of the audio file. The audio signals may be spatially rendered by applying spatial filters that include the one or more preset acoustic parameters to the audio signals, resulting in binaural audio signals. The binaural audio signals may be used to drive speakers of a headset. Other aspects are described and claimed.


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