Patents by Inventor Lyle Bruce Clarke

Lyle Bruce Clarke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240163626
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for adaptive sound image width enhancement. A method of adaptively correcting sound image width is provided. The method includes obtaining an audio signal. The audio signal is associated with one or more audio channels. Each audio channel is associated with a position of an audio source with respect to a reference point within a local reproduction system. The method includes decomposing the audio signal into mid signal, side signal, and unprocessed signal components. The method includes applying respective correction gains to each of the mid signal, side signal, and unprocessed signal components. The respective correction gains are based on a physical distance between a first loudspeaker and a second loudspeaker within the local reproduction system. The method includes rendering, after applying the respective correction gains, the mid signal, side signal, and unprocessed signal components to the first and second loudspeakers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Oliver SCHEUREGGER, Lyle Bruce CLARKE
  • Publication number: 20240163629
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for adaptive sound scene rotation. A method of adaptively rendering audio is provided. The method includes obtaining an audio signal. The audio signal is associated with one or more audio channels and each audio channel is associated with a position of an audio source with respect to a reference point within a local reproduction system. The method includes determining a rotation of a user with respect to a reference orientation about the reference position within the local reproduction system and determining a system rotation based on the rotation of the user. The method includes rendering the audio signal to one or more loudspeakers of a plurality of loudspeakers within the local reproduction system, based on the system rotation, a number of the plurality of loudspeakers, and the plurality of positions of the plurality of loudspeakers, to compensate for the rotation of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Oliver SCHEUREGGER, Lyle Bruce CLARKE
  • Patent number: 11380317
    Abstract: An instruction forwarding system capable of receiving an instruction such as from a user, determining a corresponding command and outputting a corresponding sound command to a Voice Assistant, which will then react to the command. The instruction may be an activation of a push button or an output from a sensor, such as a temperature sensor. Different commands may be correlated to different instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Bang & Olufsen A/S
    Inventors: Lyle Bruce Clarke, Petros Belimpasakis
  • Publication number: 20210118438
    Abstract: An instruction forwarding system capable of receiving an instruction such as from a user, determining a corresponding command and outputting a corresponding sound command to a Voice Assistant, which will then react to the command. The instruction may be an activation of a push button or an output from a sensor, such as a temperature sensor. Different commands may be correlated to different instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Bang & Olufsen A/S
    Inventors: Lyle Bruce CLARKE, Petros BELIMPASAKIS
  • Patent number: 10599301
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a plurality of devices with loudspeaker located in various rooms of a dwelling. The apparatus comprises a panel (1) with first user interface (2) and a second user interface (3) arranged side by side. The first user interface (2) comprises an interactive touch screen display with an indicator (11) for each room that contains an electronic device. The second user interface (3) comprises an adjustment element, for example a rotating wheel or a finger track indicator (8), for adjusting the audio level in a room in response to a correspondingly finger moving action on the second user interface (3). The audio level in a room is adjusted by the user holding one finger tip on the indicator (11) for that room while another finger is simultaneously moved on the second user interface (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: BANG & OLUFSEN A/S
    Inventor: Lyle Bruce Clarke
  • Patent number: 10419583
    Abstract: A system for streaming content, the system comprising a consumer electronics device, a mobile communication device, and a triggering device, wherein: the consumer electronics device is configured to receive a command signal from a triggering device, receive content identification instructions from the mobile communication device, and receive a streamed content signal from a network; the mobile communication device comprising a mobile application stored in computer storage, the mobile application comprising executable instructions that direct the mobile communications device to receive push notification instructions from the network and to transmit content identification instructions to the consumer electronics device; and the triggering device is configured to transmit the command signal to the consumer electronics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventors: Petros Belimpasakis, Lyle Bruce Clarke, Karsten Langhoff Sorensen
  • Publication number: 20180107356
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a plurality of devices with loudspeaker located in various rooms of a dwelling. The apparatus comprises a panel (1) with first user interface (2) and a second user interface (3) arranged side by side. The first user interface (2) comprises an interactive touch screen display with an indicator (11) for each room that contains an electronic device. The second user interface (3) comprises an adjustment element, for example a rotating wheel or a finger track indicator (8), for adjusting the audio level in a room in response to a correspondingly finger moving action on the second user interface (3). The audio level in a room is adjusted by the user holding one finger tip on the indicator (11) for that room while another finger is simultaneously moved on the second user interface (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Lyle Bruce Clarke
  • Publication number: 20170134452
    Abstract: A system for streaming content, the system comprising a consumer electronics device, a mobile communication device, and a triggering device, wherein: the consumer electronics device is configured to receive a command signal from a triggering device, receive content identification instructions from the mobile communication device, and receive a streamed content signal from a network; the mobile communication device comprising a mobile application stored in computer storage, the mobile application comprising executable instructions that direct the mobile communications device to receive push notification instructions from the network and to transmit content identification instructions to the consumer electronics device; and the triggering device is configured to transmit the command signal to the consumer electronics device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Petros Belimpasakis, Lyle Bruce Clarke, Karsten Langhoff Sorensen
  • Patent number: 8516390
    Abstract: A system for providing visual information to a user, the system comprising a central unit and a portable unit adapted to communicate with each other and wherein: the central unit is adapted to: identify the information to be provided to the user, the information being an image comprising a plurality of lines of text, provide first information relating to a plurality of suitable croppings, sizes, resolutions, and/or aspect ratios of the image, provide second information as to one or more position(s) between two adjacent lines of text, forward the first and second information, as well as the image, to the portable unit, portable unit comprises: means for receiving the first and second information and the image, a display adapted to provide visual information to the user, and means for controlling the display in one of at least three modes, wherein: in a first mode, the image is converted into a first altered image by adapting the image of the visual information to a first size, cropping or resolution as derived
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Bang & Olufsen A/S
    Inventor: Lyle Bruce Clarke
  • Publication number: 20130039527
    Abstract: An adaptable system for configuring an audio reproduction system comprising a main element and one or more speaker elements which may move and output moving information. A processor receives the moving information and an audio signal and generates an adapted loudspeaker signal, taking into account the movement, to the speaker elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Bang & Olufsen A/S
    Inventors: Søren Borup Jensen, Lyle Bruce Clarke, Jørgen Daucke von Barner
  • Publication number: 20100318552
    Abstract: A media presenter or e-book synchronizing with a server or central unit, where the server or central unit is adapted to perform multiple searches and provide the results in predetermined folders, and where, upon synchronization, the media presenter provides the received search results in corresponding folders therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: BANG & OLUFSEN A/S
    Inventor: Lyle Bruce Clarke
  • Publication number: 20100257481
    Abstract: A system for providing visual information to a user, the system comprising a central unit and a portable unit adapted to communicate with each other and wherein: the central unit is adapted to: identify the information to be provided to the user, the information being an image comprising a plurality of lines of text, provide first information relating to a plurality of suitable croppings, sizes, resolutions, and/or aspect ratios of the image, provide second information as to one or more position(s) between two adjacent lines of text, forward the first and second information, as well as the image, to the portable unit, portable unit comprises: means for receiving the first and second information and the image, a display adapted to provide visual information to the user, and means for controlling the display in one of at least three modes, wherein: in a first mode, the image is converted into a first altered image by adapting the image of the visual information to a first size, cropping or resolution as derived
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventor: Lyle Bruce Clarke
  • Publication number: 20100121919
    Abstract: An assembly of a plurality of media providers, each media provider having set a media exchange level. Each media exchange level comprising or encompassing one or more types of media to be exchanged. The media providers outputting to the other media providers the set levels, and if two media providers have levels set which have at least one type of media to be exchanged in common, the exchange of such media is started automatically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Sam de-Jongh Hepworth, Aviaja Borup Lynggaard, Lyle Bruce Clarke, Paul Spange, Marianne Graves Petersen, Kaj Georg Grønbæk, Peter Gall Krogh