US 11,722,833 B2
Systems and methods for spatial audio rendering
Christopher John Stringer, Venice, CA (US); Afrooz Family, Los Angeles, CA (US); Fabian Renn-Giles, West Drayton (GB); David Narajowski, San Jose, CA (US); Joshua Phillip Song, Los Angeles, CA (US); John Moreland, Torrance, CA (US); Pooja Patel, San Jose, CA (US); Pere Aizcorbe Arrocha, Santa Monica, CA (US); Nicholas Knudson, Venice, CA (US); Nathan Hoyt, Venice, CA (US); Marc Carino, Venice, CA (US); Mark Rakes, Venice, CA (US); Ryan Mihelich, Venice, CA (US); Matthew Brown, Brooklyn, NY (US); Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA (US); Robert Tilton, Los Angeles, CA (US); Jay Sterling Coggin, Brooklyn, NY (US); Lasse Vetter, Venice, CA (US); Christos Kyriakakis, Venice, CA (US); Matthew Robbetts, Venice, CA (US); Matthias Kronlachner, Venice, CA (US); and Yuan-Yi Fan, Sherman Oaks, CA (US)
Assigned to SYNG, Inc., Venice, CA (US)
Filed by SYNG, Inc., Venice, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/456,878.
Application 17/456,878 is a continuation of application No. 17/003,957, filed on Aug. 26, 2020, granted, now 11,190,899.
Application 17/003,957 is a continuation of application No. 16/839,021, filed on Apr. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,206,504.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/935,034, filed on Nov. 13, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/878,696, filed on Jul. 25, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/828,357, filed on Apr. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0159404 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04S 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04S 7/305 (2013.01) [H04S 5/005 (2013.01); H04S 7/302 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A spatial audio system, comprising:
a plurality of communicatively coupled loudspeakers, where each loudspeaker in the plurality of communicatively coupled loudspeakers comprises:
at least three, equally spaced, co-planar horns arranged in a circle such that the firing direction of the at least three horns points outward from the center of the circle, where each horn is coupled with at least one driver;
where a given loudspeaker in the plurality of communicatively coupled loudspeakers is configured to:
receive an input audio stream;
generate at least one derived audio stream from the input audio stream for each loudspeaker in the plurality of communicatively coupled loudspeakers; and
transmit the at least one derived audio stream to each respective loudspeaker in the plurality of communicatively coupled loudspeakers;
where each loudspeaker in the plurality of communicatively coupled loudspeakers is configured to playback its respective at least one derived audio stream using its respective horns in order to render spatial audio; and
a user interface device capable of selecting the audio stream, and directing the given loudspeaker to generate the at least one derived audio stream for each loudspeaker in the plurality of communicatively coupled loudspeakers such that the rendered spatial audio comprises spatial audio objects at locations indicated by a graphical user interface provided by the user interface device.