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Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2011

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2005
Applicants:

Steven J. Ball, Seattle, WA (US);

Stephen C. Rowe, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Steven J. Ball, Seattle, WA (US);

Stephen C. Rowe, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Media may be dynamically rendered by receiving signals from one or more types of sensors sensing in an area, and obtaining from the signals information about one or more locations of furniture, or one or more locations of persons or heads or ears thereof, or identities of one or more persons in common with other data such as time of day, season, or other external metadata. Audio and/or video data may be rendered based on the locations or identities. The identity of a person can be automatically obtained and used to automatically select a rendering profile which is then used to render digital audio and/or video media. A dynamically changing spatial location of a head and/or or ears may be automatically determined and how an audio stream is rendered may be dynamically changed based on the spatial location.


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