Abstract: A first electronic device used by a first user can determine whether a second electronic device that is being used by a second user is located within a threshold distance of the first electronic device. The first electronic device may be presenting a first extended reality (XR) environment to the first user and the second electronic device may be presenting a second XR environment to the second user. The first electronic device, in response to the second electronic device being located within the threshold distance, can perform acoustics processing for nearby spatial audio. For example, the first electronic device can play a voice of the second user with a sound adjustment. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A system can receive, at an extended reality (XR) system worn by a user, a reverberation control signal that is external to media content. The system can generate a reverberation setting comprising a plurality of reverberation parameters utilized to control a simulated reverberation of audio content. The reverberation control signal can tune the reverberation setting for a given application running on the XR system on a per application basis. In some cases, the reverberation setting may be generated based on a video classification, a reverberant characteristic, and/or the reverberation control signal. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A display system that includes a head-mounted display unit that outputs visual content to a user, an audio output device that outputs aural content to the user and is detachably coupleable to the head-mounted display unit, and a controller that controls the head-mounted display unit to output the visual content and the audio output device to output the aural content. The controller controls the audio output device to output the aural content when the audio output device is in a detached position with respect to the head-mounted display unit.

Abstract: A method performed by an audio system comprising a headset. The method sends a playback signal containing user-desired audio content to drive a speaker of the headset that is being worn by a user, receives a microphone signal from a microphone that is arranged to capture sounds within an ambient environment in which the user is located, performs a speech detection algorithm upon the microphone signal to detect speech contained therein, in response to a detection of speech, determines that the user intends to engage in a conversation with a person who is located within the ambient environment, and, in response to determining that the user intends to engage in the conversation, adjusts the playback signal based on the user-desired audio content.

Abstract: A display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a detachable speaker unit. The head-mounted display unit outputs visual content to a user and provides a visual pass-through of a real environment to the user. The detachable speaker unit is detachably coupleable to the head-mounted display unit for providing aural content to the user. At least one of the visual content or the aural content is changed according to a position of the detachable speaker unit relative to the head-mounted display unit.

Abstract: An audio device can sense sound in a physical environment using a plurality of microphones to generate a plurality of microphone signals. Clean speech can be extracted from microphone signals. Ambience can be extracted from the microphone signals. The clean speech can be encoded at a first compression level. The ambience can be encoded at a second compression level that is higher than the first compression level. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A method performed by a first electronic device that includes a first speaker, the method includes, receiving, via a network, a representation of audio content, while a second electronic device is playing back the audio content through a second speaker, determining that the first electronic device is moving away from the second electronic device, and, in response to determining that the first electronic device is moving away from the second electronic device, using the representation of audio to play back the audio content through the first speaker.

Abstract: A method performed by a portable media player device. The method receives a microphone signal that includes audio content output by an audio playback device via a loudspeaker. The method determines identification information regarding the audio content, wherein the identification information is determined through an acoustic signal analysis of the microphone signal. In response to determining that the audio playback device has ceased outputting the audio content, the method retrieves from local memory of the portable media player device or a remote device with which the portable media player device is communicatively coupled, an audio signal that corresponds to the audio content and drives a speaker that is not part of the audio playback device using the audio signal to continue outputting the audio content and any additional audio content related to the audio content.

Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: obtaining user movement information characterizing real-world body pose and trajectory information of the user; generating a predicted virtual interaction time for a virtual interaction based at least in part on a placement of the CGR item in the CGR environment and the user movement information prior to the virtual interaction occurring; determining a first initiation time for a first feedback device among the one or more feedback devices based at least in part on the predicted virtual interaction time and a first predetermined latency period associated with the first feedback device; and initiating at the first initiation time, by the device, first feedback from the first feedback device in order to satisfy a performance criterion that corresponds to the virtual interaction with the CGR item.

Abstract: A method performed by a programmed processor of an electronic device. The device obtains an audio signal, obtains, using one or more microphones, a microphone signal that includes audio of an environment in which the electronic device is located. The device determines a context of the device, and selects a volume compensation model from several models based on the determined context. The device processes the audio signal according to the selected volume compensation model and the microphone signal, and uses the processed audio signal to drive one or more speakers of the device.

Abstract: Processing sound in an enhanced reality environment can include generating, based on an image of a physical environment, an acoustic model of the physical environment. Audio signals captured by a microphone array, can capture a sound in the physical environment. Based on these audio signals, one or more measured acoustic parameters of the physical environment can be generated. A target audio signal can be processed using the model of the physical environment and the measured acoustic parameters, resulting in a plurality of output audio channels having a virtual sound source with a virtual location. The output audio channels can be used to drive a plurality of speakers. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide video content (e.g., a TV show, a recorded sporting event, a movie, a 3D video, etc.) within a 3D environment using parameters selected based on one or more contextual factors. Such contextual factors may be determined based on an attribute of the content (e.g., its intended purpose or viewing environment), the user (e.g., the user's visual quality, interpupillary distance, etc.), the 3D environment (e.g., current lighting conditions, spatial considerations, etc.), or other context attributes.

Abstract: A method for self-calibrating a sound pickup process that uses a microphone array in a wearable device that also includes a loudspeaker, where the microphone array being in a physical arrangement with respect to the loudspeaker. The method obtains, for each of several microphones of the microphone array, one or more transfer functions that each represent a response of the microphone to sound from a position in an acoustic space. The method determines whether a physical arrangement of the microphone array with respect to the loudspeaker has changed and adjusts the transfer function, for at least one of the microphones of the several microphones, in response to determining that the current physical arrangement of the microphone array with respect to the loudspeaker has changed.

Abstract: A method performed by an audio system comprising a headset. The method sends a playback signal containing user-desired audio content to drive a speaker of the headset that is being worn by a user, receives a microphone signal from a microphone that is arranged to capture sounds within an ambient environment in which the user is located, performs a speech detection algorithm upon the microphone signal to detect speech contained therein, in response to a detection of speech, determines that the user intends to engage in a conversation with a person who is located within the ambient environment, and, in response to determining that the user intends to engage in the conversation, adjusts the playback signal based on the user-desired audio content.

Abstract: A method performed by a first electronic device that includes a first speaker, the method includes, receiving, via a network, a representation of audio content, while a second electronic device is playing back the audio content through a second speaker, determining that the first electronic device is moving away from the second electronic device, and, in response to determining that the first electronic device is moving away from the second electronic device, using the representation of audio to play back the audio content through the first speaker.

Abstract: A method performed by a portable media player device. The method receives a microphone signal that includes audio content output by an audio playback device via a loudspeaker. The method determines identification information regarding the audio content, wherein the identification information is determined through an acoustic signal analysis of the microphone signal. In response to determining that the audio playback device has ceased outputting the audio content, the method retrieves from local memory of the portable media player device or a remote device with which the portable media player device is communicatively coupled, an audio signal that corresponds to the audio content and drives a speaker that is not part of the audio playback device using the audio signal to continue outputting the audio content and any additional audio content related to the audio content.

Abstract: An opt-in indication is received that a wearer of a headworn device joins a conversation channel having a first target audio signal that contains an isolated voice of a first talker. In response, the first target audio signal is spatially rendered into a left speaker driver signal and a right speaker driver signal that are to drive a left speaker and a right speaker, respectively, of a first audio system. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

Abstract: In a method for reproducing sound of a data object, a voice signal of a data object is split into a first sub-band signal and a second sub-band signal, and speaker driver signals are generated to produce sound of the object by a two-way speaker system in which the first sub-band signal drives a tweeter or high frequency driver and the second sub-band signal drives a woofer or low frequency driver. In another aspect, the first and second sub-band signals are spatialized as virtual sources that are in different locations. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A method performed by a processor of a computer system including a headset that is to be worn on a head of a user. The method drives a speaker of the headset with an input audio signal to output sound into an environment. The method determines that the speaker is at least partially covered with a cupped hand. In response to determining that the speaker is at least partially covered with the cupped hand, applying a gain to the input audio signal to reduce an output sound level of the speaker.

Abstract: A head-worn device can determine that a playback device is outputting audio content. A microphone of the head-worn device can sense the audio content that is output by the playback device. Spatial filters can be applied to one or more audio channels of additional audio content that compliments the audio content output by the playback device. The resulting spatialized audio can be played through speakers to a user wearing the head-worn device.