Patents by Inventor Kara Kytle

Kara Kytle 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).

  • Apparatus and method for determining the intensity of a sound in a virtual world
    Patent number: 5926400
    Abstract: A method for determining the intensity value of a sound begins by determining if a listener location is within one of an ambient ellipse region and a localized ellipse region, the ambient ellipse region and the localized ellipse region sharing a common focus at an origin of the sound and sharing a common medial axis. The intensity value of the sound is set to an ambient intensity value when the listener location is within the ambient ellipse region. The intensity value of the sound is set to a localized intensity value when the listener location is within the localized ellipse region, and the intensity value of the sound is set to zero when the listener location is not within the localized ellipse region or the ambient ellipse region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kara Kytle, Mark Leavy