US 11,758,348 B1
Auditory origin synthesis
Jared King, Los Angeles, CA (US); Shai Messingher Lang, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Symeon Delikaris Manias, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/570,251.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/134,840, filed on Jan. 7, 2021.
Int. Cl. H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04S 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04S 7/303 (2013.01) [H04S 5/00 (2013.01); H04S 2420/11 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
producing a plurality of virtual loudspeaker arrays and channels thereof, each based on a corresponding microphone array and microphone signals thereof, wherein each virtual loudspeaker array comprises a same number of virtual loudspeaker transducers that are in a same arrangement within the virtual loudspeaker array, wherein each virtual loudspeaker transducer of the plurality of virtual loudspeaker arrays points in a same direction;
determining channels of a hallucinated loudspeaker array, based on at least some channels of the plurality of virtual loudspeaker arrays, wherein each of the plurality of virtual loudspeaker arrays and the hallucinated loudspeaker array comprises the same number of virtual loudspeaker transducers that are in the same arrangement and that point in the same direction; and
rendering spatial audio based on the channels of the hallucinated loudspeaker array.