Multi-user computer generated reality platform

    公开(公告)号:US11157739B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-26

    申请号:US16554402

    申请日:2019-08-28

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to providing a multi-user computer generated reality (“CGR”) session. In some embodiments, a first electronic device displays a CGR environment, wherein the CGR environment is responsive to input from the first electronic device and a second electronic device, wherein the second device is external to the first device. While displaying the CGR environment, the device obtains a first scene graph from a process executing on the first device, wherein the first scene graph includes information for rendering a first entity, and obtains a second scene graph from a process executing on the second device, wherein the second scene graph includes information for rendering a second entity. The first electronic device updates the displayed CGR environment based on the first scene graph and the second scene graph, wherein the displayed CGR environment includes a visual representation of the first and a visual representation of the second entity.

    Audio-based presence detection
    12.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11146909B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-12

    申请号:US16870752

    申请日:2020-05-08

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A device can receive an audio signal and determine a measure of correlation between the audio signal and a microphone signal. The audio signal can be attenuated based on the measure of correlation. The audio signal can be used to drive one or more speakers of the device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

    Spatial audio navigation
    13.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12188777B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-07

    申请号:US18338193

    申请日:2023-06-20

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for spatial audio navigation that may, for example, be implemented by mobile multipurpose devices. A spatial audio navigation system provides navigational information in audio form to direct users to target locations. The system uses directionality of audio played through a binaural audio device to provide navigational cues to the user. A current location, target location, and map information may be input to pathfinding algorithms to determine a real world path between the user's current location and the target location. The system may then use directional audio played through a headset to guide the user on the path from the current location to the target location. The system may implement one or more of several different spatial audio navigation methods to direct a user when following a path using spatial audio-based cues.

    SPATIAL AUDIO DOWNMIXING
    15.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230144903A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-11

    申请号:US18087214

    申请日:2022-12-22

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Channels of audio data in a spatial audio object are associated with any one or more of a direction and a location of one or more recorded sounds, which channels are to be reproduced as spatial sound. A visualized spatial sound object represents a snapshot/thumbnail of the spatial sound. To preview the spatial sound (by experiencing its snapshot or thumbnail), a user manipulates the orientation of the visualized spatial sound object, and a weighted downmix of the channels is rendered for output as a spatial preview sound, e.g., a single output audio signal is provided to a spatial audio renderer; one or more of the channels that are oriented toward the user are emphasized in the preview sound, more than channels that are oriented away from the user. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

    AUDIO-BASED PRESENCE DETECTION
    16.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220022001A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-20

    申请号:US17481844

    申请日:2021-09-22

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A device can receive an audio signal and determine a measure of correlation between the audio signal and a microphone signal. The audio signal can be attenuated based on the measure of correlation. The audio signal can be used to drive one or more speakers of the device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

    Spatial audio downmixing
    17.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11128977B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-21

    申请号:US16645429

    申请日:2018-09-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Channels of audio data in a spatial audio object are associated with any one or more of a direction and a location of one or more recorded sounds, which channels are to be reproduced as spatial sound. A visualized spatial sound object represents a snapshot/thumbnail of the spatial sound. To preview the spatial sound (by experiencing its snapshot or thumbnail), a user manipulates the orientation of the visualized spatial sound object, and a weighted downmix of the channels is rendered for output as a spatial preview sound, e.g., a single output audio signal is provided to a spatial audio renderer; one or more of the channels that are oriented toward the user are emphasized in the preview sound, more than channels that are oriented away from the user. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

    SPATIAL AUDIO DOWNMIXING
    18.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200221248A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-09

    申请号:US16645429

    申请日:2018-09-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Channels of audio data in a spatial audio object are associated with any one or more of a direction and a location of one or more recorded sounds, which channels are to be reproduced as spatial sound. A visualized spatial sound object represents a snapshot/thumbnail of the spatial sound. To preview the spatial sound (by experiencing its snapshot or thumbnail), a user manipulates the orientation of the visualized spatial sound object, and a weighted downmix of the channels is rendered for output as a spatial preview sound, e.g., a single output audio signal is provided to a spatial audio renderer; one or more of the channels that are oriented toward the user are emphasized in the preview sound, more than channels that are oriented away from the user. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

    Audio-based presence detection
    19.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12267666B1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-01

    申请号:US18497949

    申请日:2023-10-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A device can receive an audio signal and determine a measure of correlation between the audio signal and a microphone signal. The audio signal can be attenuated based on the measure of correlation. The audio signal can be used to drive one or more speakers of the device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

    Method and system for time-aligned media playback

    公开(公告)号:US11924317B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-05

    申请号:US17530306

    申请日:2021-11-18

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04L7/0008 G06F3/165 H04L7/00

    Abstract: A method performed by a first electronic device. The method generates, at the first electronic device that is sharing a global clock with a second electronic device, a first timebase information that includes a first timebase that defines a relationship between the shared clock and an internal clock of the first electronic device, the first timebase information for synchronizing playback of a first piece of media content associated with a first application between the first and second electronic devices. The method receives, from a second application, a second timebase information that includes a second timebase that defines a relationship between the first timebase and a second piece of media content, generates a third timebase information that includes the first timebase and the second timebase, and transmits the third timebase information to the second electronic device.

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