Patents by Inventor Daniel C. Wiggins
Daniel C. Wiggins 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).
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Patent number: 11889291Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Publication number: 20230185113Abstract: A portable eyewear electronic device that includes a speaker module and methods of assembly of the device are presented. The electronic eyewear device includes a speaker module that emits acoustic radiation that is channeled through a carrier contained within a temple to one or more acoustic ports near a user's ear.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Patent number: 11598979Abstract: A portable eyewear electronic device that includes a speaker module and methods of assembly of the device are presented. The electronic eyewear device includes a speaker module that emits acoustic radiation that is channeled through a carrier contained within a temple to one or more acoustic ports near a user's ear.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Publication number: 20230017052Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Patent number: 11540425Abstract: A cooling device generating unidirectional air flow to cool an electrical component. The cooling device is an equivalent of an electrical acoustic diode to make air flow only one direction. A speaker generates air flow in a first passageway to a cavity, and then expels air out from the cavity through a second passageway. An electrical component is cooled by the air flow, and may be positioned adjacent the passageways, or positioned in the cavity. In one example, eyewear having an electrical component positioned in a temple is cooled by the cooling device.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Andrea Ashwood, Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Publication number: 20220377491Abstract: An electronic eyewear device includes a display and a speaker system adapted to present augment reality objects and associated sounds in a scene being viewed by the user. A processor receives one or more audio tracks respectively associated with one or more augmented reality objects, encodes the audio tracks into an aggregated audio track including the audio tracks, a header for each audio track that uniquely identifies each respective audio track, and an aggregate header that identifies the number of tracks in the aggregated audio track. The processor transfers the aggregated audio track to an audio processor that uses the header for each audio track and the aggregate header to separate the audio tracks from the aggregated audio track. The audio processor processes the audio tracks independently in parallel and provides the audio tracks to the speaker system for presentation with the augmented reality objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Daniel Harris, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Patent number: 11496852Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Publication number: 20220182778Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Publication number: 20210399574Abstract: A remotely controlled switching module that provides switching and preferably dimming functions for one or more AC or DC power distribution lines. The inventive module is preferably sized to fit within existing outlet and switch boxes, while still leaving enough room for the conventional components that are also housed in such enclosures. Remote control is provided wirelessly—preferably using an existing wireless communication protocol. Local control is preferably also provided for the inventive switching module. Local control inputs preferably allow control via existing components—such as two-pole light switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Metra Electronics CorporationInventors: Daniel C. Wiggins, Thomas E. Burgess, Benjamin Webster
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Publication number: 20210378152Abstract: A cooling device generating unidirectional air flow to cool an electrical component. The cooling device is an equivalent of an electrical acoustic diode to make air flow only one direction. A speaker generates air flow in a first passageway to a cavity, and then expels air out from the cavity through a second passageway. An electrical component is cooled by the air flow, and may be positioned adjacent the passageways, or positioned in the cavity. In one example, eyewear having an electrical component positioned in a temple is cooled by the cooling device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Andrea Ashwood, Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Patent number: 10880647Abstract: There is disclosed active acoustic filter systems and methods. A processor is disposed within a housing configured to interface with a user's ear. A memory stores data defining one or more locations and a respective set of location-based processing parameters associated with each of the one or more locations. A personal computing device external to the housing is coupled to the processor via a first wireless communications link. The personal computing device determines a current location of the active acoustic filter system. The processor generates digitized processed sound by processing digitized ambient sound in accordance with a set of location-based processing parameters retrieved from the memory, the retrieved set of location-based processing parameters associated with the current location of the active acoustic filter system as determined by the personal computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Publication number: 20200133627Abstract: Active acoustic filter systems and methods are disclosed. An active acoustic filter system includes a memory storing one or more stored sound profiles and a respective set of processing parameters associated with each of the one or more stored sound profiles. A processor coupled to the memory generates processed sound by processing ambient sound in accordance with a set of processing parameters retrieved from the memory based on results from comparing an ambient sound profile to at least one of the one or more stored sound profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Noah KRAFT, Richard Fritz LANMAN, III, Daniel C. WIGGINS, Jeffrey BAKER
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Patent number: 10466957Abstract: Active acoustic filter systems and methods are disclosed. An active acoustic filter system includes a memory storing one or more stored sound profiles and a respective set of processing parameters associated with each of the one or more stored sound profiles. A processor coupled to the memory generates processed sound by processing ambient sound in accordance with a set of processing parameters retrieved from the memory based on results from comparing an ambient sound profile to at least one of the one or more stored sound profiles.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Daniel C. Wiggins, Jeffrey Baker
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Publication number: 20190279610Abstract: An earpiece for real-time audio processing of ambient sound includes an ear bud that provides passive noise attenuation to the earpiece such that exterior ambient sound is substantially reduced within an ear of a wearer, an exterior microphone that receives ambient sound and converts the received ambient sound into analog electrical signals, and an analog-to-digital converter that converts the analog electrical signals into digital signals representative of the ambient sounds. The earpiece further includes a digital signal processor that performs a transformation operation on the digital signals according to instructions received from a mobile device, the transformation operation transforms the digital signals into modified digital signals, a digital-to-analog converter that converts the modified digital signals into modified analog electrical signals, and a speaker that outputs the modified analog electrical signals as audio waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey Baker, Anthony Parks, Sal Gregory Garcia, Thomas Ezekiel Burgess, Matthew Fumio Yamamoto, Nils Jacob Palmborg, Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Patent number: 10325585Abstract: Ambient sound is converted into digital signals. A processor performs active noise cancellation and/or a transformation operation that is distinct from the active noise cancellation on the digital signals. The active noise cancellation and the transformation operation transform the digital signals into modified digital signals. The modified digital signals are converted into modified analog signals. The modified analog signals are outputted as audio waves. An interior microphone is configured to output an output signal to the processor in response to receiving the modified analog signals. In response to receiving the output signal from the interior microphone, the processor is configured to determine whether the modified digital signals produce desired audio waves.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Baker, Anthony Parks, Sal Gregory Garcia, Thomas Ezekiel Burgess, Matthew Fumio Yamamoto, Nils Jacob Palmborg, Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Patent number: 9825598Abstract: A combined ambient sound and secondary audio system comprises at least one microphone for receiving ambient sound, at least one receiver for receiving secondary audio from a secondary audio source not audible in the ambient sound. The system further includes a memory storing one or more sets processing parameters comprising instructions for processing the ambient sound and the secondary audio and a processor coupled to the memory, the microphone, and the receiver configured to generate combined ambient and secondary sound by combining the ambient sound and the secondary audio as directed by a selected set of processing parameters retrieved from the memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Doppler Labs, Inc.Inventors: Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Jeff Baker, Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Publication number: 20170265005Abstract: There is disclosed a microphone and a microphone capsule including the microphone. The microphone includes a diaphragm having a perimeter shaped as a polygon with an odd number of sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Daniel C. Wiggins, James Patrick Butler, Jonathan Oswaks
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Patent number: 9736572Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for acoustic optimization. An example playback device includes a first transducer to at least one of output sound waves and receive sound waves, a second transducer to at least one of output sound waves and receive sound waves, and an acoustic grille positioned in relation to the first transducer, where the acoustic grille is to reflect sound waves received at a first angle of incidence.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Sonos, Inc.Inventor: Daniel C. Wiggins
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Patent number: 9679551Abstract: There is disclosed a noise reducing headphone including a headphone housing, a microphone generate an ambient audio signal representative of ambient noise, a processor to generate an anti-sound signal based on the ambient audio signal. A first speaker is disposed within the headphone housing to convert the anti-sound signal into anti-sound. A second speaker is disposed within the headphone housing to convert an audio input signal into high fidelity sound. At least one characteristic of the second speaker is different from a corresponding characteristic of the first speaker.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics, LLCInventors: Daniel C. Wiggins, Thomas Ezekiel Burgess, Matthew Fumio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9648436Abstract: An augmented reality sound systems is disclosed. An augmented reality sound system includes a at least one microphone for receiving ambient sound and a memory storing one or more augmented reality sound profiles and a respective set of processing parameters. The system further includes a processor coupled to the memory and configured to generate augmented ambient sound from the ambient sound by reproducing the ambient sound in conjunction with processed sound superimposed over the ambient sound as directed by one or more of the set of processing parameters retrieved from the memory based on a selected augmented reality sound profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Doppler Labs, Inc.Inventors: Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Jeff Baker, Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Daniel C. Wiggins