US 11,750,997 B2
System and method for providing a spatialized soundfield
Michael Binn, San Diego, CA (US); Jeffrey M. Claar, Aliso Viejo, CA (US); Henry R. Goldansky, Chula Vista, CA (US); and James Satloff, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to Comhear Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Comhear Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/369,780.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/049,035, filed on Jul. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0014868 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01)
CPC H04S 7/303 (2013.01) [H04R 1/403 (2013.01); H04S 2420/01 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A spatialized sound system, comprising:
a spatial mapping sensor, comprising an imaging radar sensor having an antenna array and being configured to map an environment, and to determine at least a position of at least one listener and an object and produce a spatial mapping sensor output dependent on the mapped environment and the determined at least a position of the at least one listener and the object;
a signal processor configured to:
transform a received audio program according to a spatialization model comprising spatialization model parameters defining at least one head-related transfer function, and an acoustic interaction of the object, selectively dependent on the spatial mapping sensor output, to form spatialized audio; and
generate an array of audio transducer signals for an audio transducer array representing the spatialized audio; and
a network port configured to communicate physical state information derived from the spatial mapping sensor output for the at least one listener through digital packet communication network.