Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Headphones that determine head size and ear shape for customized HRTFs for a listener
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Application No.: US15728527Application Date: 2017-10-10
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Publication No.: US09918178B2Publication Date: 2018-03-13
- Inventor: Glen A. Norris , Philip Scott Lyren
- Applicant: Glen A. Norris , Philip Scott Lyren
- Main IPC: H04S7/00
- IPC: H04S7/00 ; H04S3/00 ; H04R5/033 ; H04R5/04

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus include headphones that determine a size of a head of a listener and a shape of an ear of the listener. The size of the head and the shape of the ear determine head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) that are customized to the listener. The headphones include head tracking, and sound is adjusted so that a location of a source of the sound continues to originate from a fixed sound localization point (SLP) in empty space that is at least one meter away from the head of the listener while the head orientations of the listener change with respect to the fixed location.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180035237A1 Sound Localization for an Electronic Call Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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