Patents by Inventor Glen A. Norris

Glen A. Norris 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).

  • WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE CORRECTS AN ERROR WHERE A USER HEARS BINAURAL SOUND
    Publication number: 20210360364
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device (WED) corrects an error where a user hears binaural sound. A processor processes sound into binaural sound that localizes to the user at a location, and the WED determines a gaze direction of the user when the user hears the binaural sound. The WED corrects an error between the location and the gaze direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Computer Performance of Executing Binaural Sound
    Publication number: 20210352429
    Abstract: A method improves performance of a computer that provides binaural sound to a listener. A memory stores coordinate locations that follow a path of how the head of the listener moves. This path is retrieved in anticipation of subsequent head movements of the listener to improve computer performance of executing binaural sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Wearable electronic device displays a 3D zone from where binaural sound emanates
    Patent number: 11172316
    Abstract: A portable electronic device (PED) divides an area around a user into a three-dimensional (3D) zone. A wearable electronic device worn on a head of the user displays the 3D zone in response to the wearable electronic device detecting that the user is leaving the zone. The wearable electronic device plays binaural sound that emanates to the user from sound localization points (SLPs) inside the zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE THAT DISPLAY A BOUNDARY OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ZONE
    Publication number: 20210258712
    Abstract: A method selects a location where to localize binaural sound to a listener. Sounds are assigned to different zones or different sound localization points (SLPs). The sounds are convolved with sound localization information so the sounds externally localize as binaural sound away from the listener and into the assigned zone or to the assigned SLP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • User interface that controls where sound will localize
    Publication number: 20210258419
    Abstract: A smartphone displays a user interface that simultaneously shows a first image that when selected by a listener plays sound as stereo audio to a listener wearing headphones or the earphones, a second image that when selected by the listener plays the sound as spatial audio through the headphones or the earphones, and an image of a head of a person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Wearable electronic device that corrects errors where a user hears binaural sound
    Patent number: 11082793
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device (WED) corrects errors where a user hears binaural sound. The WED includes a digital signal processor (DSP) that processes sound into the binaural sound to localize to a first location and head tracking that tracks where the user looks to hear the binaural sound at a second location. The WED corrects an error between the first location and the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Computer performance of executing binaural sound
    Patent number: 11076255
    Abstract: A method improves performance of a computer that provides binaural sound to a listener. A memory stores coordinate locations that follow a path of how the head of the listener moves. This path is retrieved in anticipation of subsequent head movements of the listener to improve computer performance of executing binaural sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A Norris
  • Sound Localization for an Electronic Call
    Publication number: 20210227342
    Abstract: During an electronic call between two individuals, a sound localization point simulates a location in empty space from where an origin of a voice of one individual occurs for the other individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • Electronic glasses that display a virtual image for a telephone call
    Patent number: 11032412
    Abstract: Electronic glasses display a virtual image for a telephone call before a first user wearing the electronic glasses answers the telephone call. The electronic glasses display the virtual image at a location in an environment of the first user where a voice of a second user will externally localize in empty space outside the head of the first user when the first user answers the telephone call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Display where a voice of a calling party will externally localize as binaural sound for a telephone call
    Patent number: 10999427
    Abstract: An electronic device executes a method that displays a location to a called party where a voice of a calling party will localize as binaural sound in a telephone call. The method displays an image representing the called party and an image representing the calling party with respect to each other so the called party can visually determine where the voice of the calling party will externally localize as the binaural sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Switching Binaural Sound
    Publication number: 20210112357
    Abstract: A method provides binaural sound to a person through electronic earphones. The binaural sound localizes to a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space that is away from but proximate to the person. When an event occurs, the binaural sound switches or changes to stereo sound, to mono sound, or to altered binaural sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Head mounted display processes sound with HRTFs based on eye distance of a user wearing the HMD
    Patent number: 10972850
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) determines a distance between eyes of a user wearing the HMD, and head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are selected based on the eye distance. The HMD displays a virtual image to the user and processes sound with the HRTFs into binaural sound that externally localizes at the virtual image. The HMD that determines the distance between the eyes of the user is also the HMD that displays the virtual image and processes the sound with the HRTFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • Dummy Head for Electronic Calls
    Publication number: 20210099801
    Abstract: A method captures binaural sound of a voice of a first user with microphones located at left and rights ears of a dummy head. The dummy head transmits the voice of the first user to a portable electronic device with or near the first user. This portable electronic device transmits the binaural sound over one or more networks to another electronic device being used by a second user to communicate with the first user during the electronic call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • Methods and Apparatus to Assist Listeners in Distinguishing Between Electronically Generated Binaural Sound and Physical Environment Sound
    Publication number: 20210092232
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus assist listeners in distinguishing between electronically generated binaural sound and physical environment sound while the listener wears a wearable electronic device that provides the binaural sound to the listener. The wearable electronic device generates a visual alert or audio alert when the electronically generated binaural sound occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • Audio Diarization System that Segments Audio Input
    Publication number: 20210084427
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device worn on a head of a user analyzes prior electronic communications and determines where to play a voice so the voice originates at a familiar sound localization point (SLP) to the user. The wearable electronic device plays the voice so the voice externally localizes to the user as binaural sound at the familiar SLP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Defining a zone with a HPED and providing binaural sound in the zone
    Patent number: 10917737
    Abstract: A handheld portable electronic device (HPED) defines a zone that extends from a floor and around a user wearing a wearable electronic device (WED). The HPED designates a location in the zone for where binaural sound originates to the user. The WED tracks a location of the HPED, and sound is processed to originate as the binaural sound in the zone. The WED displays a virtual image at the location of the binaural sound in the zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Capturing Audio Impulse Responses of a Person with a Smartphone
    Publication number: 20210021946
    Abstract: A portable electronic device (PED) divides an area around a user into a three-dimensional (3D) zone. A wearable electronic device worn on a head of the user displays the 3D zone in response to the wearable electronic device detecting that the user is leaving the zone. The wearable electronic device plays binaural sound that emanates to the user from sound localization points (SLPs) inside the zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • User Experience Localizing Binaural Sound During a Telephone Call
    Publication number: 20210021952
    Abstract: A electronic device displays an image that has sound. One or more processors process the sound for the image into binaural sound for a user. The binaural sound has a sound localization point (SLP) with a coordinate location that occurs behind the image while the image is located a near-field distance from a head of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • Displaying an image of a calling party at coordinates from HRTFs
    Patent number: 10887448
    Abstract: An electronic device processes a voice of a calling party with head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) during a telephone call. A display displays an image representing the calling party with respect to an image representing the called party at a location obtained from coordinates of the HRTFs such that the display shows where the voice of the calling party will externally localize as binaural sound to the called party when the called party answers the telephone call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Smartphone that displays a virtual image for a telephone call
    Patent number: 10887449
    Abstract: A smartphone displays a real-time video of an environment of a first user. The smartphone receives a telephone call from a second user and displays, on the real-time video before the first user answers the telephone call, a virtual image at a location in the environment of the first user where a voice of the second user will externally localize in empty space outside the head of the first user in the environment when the first user answers the telephone call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris