US 12,067,222 B2
Quick and easy audio profile creation and use
Mahyar Nejat, San Diego, CA (US); Arturo Jordan, San Diego, CA (US); and Brant Candelore, Poway, CA (US)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/050,419.
Prior Publication US 2024/0143144 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/04842 (2013.01) [G06F 3/167 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assembly, comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
render on at least one visual and/or audio user interface (UI) plural audio profiles for plural respective people;
present instructions related to selecting at least one of the plural audio profiles being rendered on the at least one visual and/or audio Ul;
establish a first audio profile in a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) of a first device according to a user's selection via the at least one visual and/or audio UI;
based on establishment of the first audio profile in the HAL, control the HAL to pass audio data modified according to the first audio profile to a digital signal processor (DSP) for rendering, by the DSP, of personalized audio indicated in the audio data; and
control the DSP to drive a speaker of the first device to render the personalized audio;
wherein each of the plural audio profiles is also tailored to a specific speaker of a different respective device, each of the different respective devices being accessible to the assembly for production of audio in accordance with one of the plural audio profiles.