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).

  • ELECTRONIC CALL IN BINAURAL SOUND WITH SMARTPHONE AND ELECTRONIC GLASSES
    Publication number: 20190387351
    Abstract: A first user and a second user have an electronic call in binaural sound. A smartphone processes a voice of the second user to externally localize as the binaural sound. Wearable electronic glasses worn on a head of the first user communicate with the smartphone and display a virtual image at a location where the voice of the second user externally localizes to the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Smartphone with User Interface to Externally Localize Telephone Calls
    Publication number: 20190387095
    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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • SWITCHING BINAURAL SOUND
    Publication number: 20190387341
    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: August 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Improving Computer Performance of Executing Binaural Sound
    Publication number: 20190387349
    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: August 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Methods and Apparatus to Assist Listeners in Distinguishing Between Electronically Generated Binaural Sound and Physical Environment Sound
    Publication number: 20190387102
    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: August 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • Designating a sound localization point(SLP)for binaural sound at a location of a smartphone
    Publication number: 20190387339
    Abstract: Electronic glasses detect a location of smartphone and designate the location as a sound localization point (SLP) from where binaural sound originates to a user wearing the electronic glasses. A digital signal processor (DSP) in the smartphone processes sound into the binaural sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Switching binaural sound
    Patent number: 10499173
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Switching binaural sound
    Patent number: 10499174
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Wearable electronic device that corrects errors where a user hears binaural sound
    Patent number: 10499182
    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 binaural sound with HRTFs and head tracking that tracks head movements of the user. The WED plays the binaural sound to the user while the user wears the WED. The WED corrects an error where the user hears the binaural sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Localizing Binaural Sound to Objects
    Publication number: 20190342693
    Abstract: An electronic device identifies a location of a physical object that is away from a listener. The electronic device convolves sound so the sound externally localizes as binaural sound to the physical object. The sound plays to the listener through earphones so the listener hears the sound as emanating from the physical object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • Convolving a voice in a telephone call to a sound localization point that is familiar to a listener
    Patent number: 10462595
    Abstract: A method convolves a voice in a telephone call as binaural sound to an external sound localization point (SLP) that is familiar to a user. The method analyzes SLPs in prior telephone calls where voices in the prior telephone calls externally localized as binaural sound to the user and determines, based on the analysis, a SLP that is familiar to the user where the user previously localized the voices in the prior telephone calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Switching binaural sound
    Patent number: 10448184
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Switching binaural sound
    Patent number: 10440490
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Generating a sound localization point (SLP) where binaural sound externally localizes to a person during a telephone call
    Patent number: 10440489
    Abstract: A method generates a sound localization point (SLP) where binaural sound externally localizes to a person during a telephone call. The method determines a location of a handheld portable electronic device (HPED) with respect to the person and saves this location as the SLP. During the telephone call, a voice of another person is processed so the voice externally localizes to the person as the binaural sound at the SLP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Sound Localization for an Electronic Call
    Publication number: 20190306645
    Abstract: A smartphone includes a camera that takes a picture of an ear of a user and retrieves at least one head-related transfer function (HRTF) from a database based on the picture. A digital signal processor (DSP) processes the sound to generate binaural sound, and a transmitter transmits the binaural sound to earphones or headphones worn on a head of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • CONTROLLING A LOCATION OF BINAURAL SOUND WITH A COMMAND
    Publication number: 20190306644
    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: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • Capturing Audio Impulse Responses of a Person with a Smartphone
    Publication number: 20190306646
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device (WED) worn on a head of a user detects a location of a handheld portable electronic device (HPED) held in a hand of the user and designates a sound localization point (SLP) for binaural sound at the location of the HPED. A digital signal processor (DSP) processes sound to originate to the user as the binaural sound at the location after the HPED is removed from the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Switching Binaural Sound
    Publication number: 20190306647
    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: June 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Methods and apparatus to assist listeners in distinguishing between electronically generated binaural sound and physical environment sound
    Patent number: 10432796
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Inventors: Glen A. Norris, Philip Scott Lyren
  • Computer performance of executing binaural sound
    Patent number: 10433094
    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: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris