Patents by Inventor Scott A. Wardle
Scott A. Wardle 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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Publication number: 20240098442Abstract: An audio processing system may obtain a size of a visual object to present to a display. The audio processing system may determine a virtual placement for each of a plurality of virtual speakers at least based on the size of the visual object. Each of the plurality of virtual speakers may be spatially rendered at each virtual placement through binaural audio, for playback through head-worn speakers. Other aspects are also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Shai Messingher Lang, Joshua D. Atkins, Scott A. Wardle, Symeon Delikaris Manias
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Patent number: 11388540Abstract: Movement of a sound source toward or away from a listener may be simulated by crossfading a sound level of a point sound source signal representation of a source waveform and a spherical harmonic representation of the source waveform as a simulated distance of a listener from a sound source changes to generate a cross-faded waveform. A speaker may be driven with the cross-faded waveform.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Scott Wardle, Robert Pullman
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Publication number: 20210127222Abstract: Movement of a sound source toward or away from a listener may be simulated by crossfading a sound level of a point sound source signal representation of a source waveform and a spherical harmonic representation of the source waveform as a simulated distance of a listener from a sound source changes to generate a cross-faded waveform. A speaker may be driven with the cross-faded waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Scott Wardle, Robert Pullman
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Patent number: 10887717Abstract: A method for simulation of movement of a sound source comprising convolving a source wave form with at least an Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF) to generate a point sound source at a simulated first distance from the listener, generating a spherical harmonic representation of the source waveform at a simulated second distance from the listener, crossfading the sound level of the point sound source and the spherical harmonic representation of the source waveform at a simulated second distance from the listener and driving a speaker with the cross-faded spherical harmonic representation of the source waveform and the point sound source.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Scott Wardle, Robert Pullman
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Patent number: 10652686Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and system for processing an audio signal to optimize the localization of sound in a sound system using a head related transfer function HRTF). A location of a user is determined and a speaker is driven with a waveform representing a location specific cue having a desired user response. The location specific cue is associated with a defined HRTF for the determined location of the user. A user response to location specific cue is detected and compared to the location specific cue. The defined HRTF is then updated with information from the comparison of the user response to the location specific cue.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Scott Wardle, Joshua Isenberg, Robert Pullman, III
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Patent number: 10587979Abstract: A method for localization of sound in a speaker system comprises determining speaker locations of a plurality of speakers in a speaker system, determining a user location of a user within a room, and modifying audio signals to be transmitted to each of the plurality of speakers based on the user location in the room relative to a corresponding one of the speaker locations. An optimum modification of the audio signals for each of the plurality of speakers includes eliminating locational effects of the user location within the room.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Scott Wardle
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Patent number: 10523171Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for adjustment of room sound levels, comprising; driving a speaker with a known waveform, detecting a sound wave from the speaker with at least two microphones wherein the at least two microphones are configured in a known orientation, utilizing the known waveform and the sound wave detected by the at least two microphones and the known orientation of the at least two microphones to generate a room sound dynamic; applying a filter to adjust a sound level to account for the room sound dynamic. The room sound dynamic may be the speaker layout of the room, the room impulse response, the distance or angle of each speaker from the center of the room or other physical constraints that may affect the user's perception of sound coming from a sound system.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Scott Wardle, Jeppe Oland
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Patent number: 10462598Abstract: A system for generating a head-related transfer function, HRTF, for a given position with respect to a listener, the system comprising a dividing unit operable to divide each of a plurality of existing HRTFs, each corresponding to a respective plurality of positions, into first and second components, an interaural time difference determination unit operable to determine an interaural time difference expected by a user for a sound source located at the given position in dependence upon the respective first components, an interpolation unit operable to generate an interpolated second component by interpolating generated second components using a weighting dependent upon the respective positions for the corresponding HRFTs and the given position, and a generation unit operable to generate an HRTF for the given position in dependence upon the interaural time difference and the interpolated second component.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Marina Villanueva-Barreiro, Oliver Hume, Scott Wardle
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Patent number: 10440495Abstract: A method for improved virtual localization of sound comprises making a sound at an origin point, recording the sound with two or more recording devices at, two or more different distances from the origin point, generate a head-related transfer function (HRTF) for each of signals received from the two or more recording devices at the two or more different distances from the origin point, convolving a waveform with a localized HRTF generated using at least one of the HRTFs, and drive a speaker with the convolved waveform.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Scott Wardle
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Publication number: 20190246229Abstract: A method for localization of sound in a speaker system comprises determining speaker locations of a plurality of speakers in a speaker system, determining a user location of a user within a room, and modifying audio signals to be transmitted to each of the plurality of speakers based on the user location in the room relative to a corresponding one of the speaker locations. An optimum modification of the audio signals for each of the plurality of speakers includes eliminating locational effects of the user location within the room.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Scott Wardle, Jeppe Oland
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Publication number: 20190245503Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for adjustment of room sound levels, comprising; driving a speaker with a known waveform, detecting a sound wave from the speaker with at least two microphones wherein the at least two microphones are configured in a known orientation, utilizing the known waveform and the sound wave detected by the at least two microphones and the known orientation of the at least two microphones to generate a room sound dynamic; applying a filter to adjust a sound level to account for the room sound dynamic. The room sound dynamic may be the speaker layout of the room, the room impulse response, the distance or angle of each speaker from the center of the room or other physical constraints that may affect the user's perception of sound coming from a sound system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Scott Wardle, Jeppe Oland
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Publication number: 20190246230Abstract: A method for improved virtual localization of sound comprises making a sound at an origin point, recording the sound with two or more recording devices at, two or more different distances from the origin point, generate a head-related transfer function (HRTF) for each of signals received from the two or more recording devices at the two or more different distances from the origin point, convolving a waveform with a localized HRTF generated using at least one of the HRTFs, and drive a speaker with the convolved waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Scott Wardle, Jeppe Oland
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Publication number: 20190246231Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and system for processing an audio signal to optimize the localization of sound in a sound system using a head related transfer function HRTF). A location of a user is determined and a speaker is driven with a waveform representing a location specific cue having a desired user response. The location specific cue is associated with a defined HRTF for the determined location of the user. A user response to location specific cue is detected and compared to the location specific cue. The defined HRTF is then updated with information from the comparison of the user response to the location specific cue.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Scott Wardle, Jeppe Oland, Joshua Isenberg, Robert Pullman, III
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Patent number: 9769589Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for processing a source audio signal in order to localize sounds. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure relate to sound localization techniques which externalize sounds for headphone audio, such as a virtual surround sound headphone system. In various implementations, room reverberations and other acoustic effects of the environment may be more accurately modeled using improved room reverberation models. For example, in some implementations, the underlying source signal may be filtered with a filter representing a room impulse response that is a combination of a stereo room impulse response and a mono room impulse response. By way of further example, in some implementations the source signal may be filtered with a combined impulse response filter that is derived from binaural recordings of simulated impulses recorded in a desired reverberant environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Frederick Umminger, Scott Wardle
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Publication number: 20150092965Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for processing a source audio signal in order to localize sounds. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure relate to sound localization techniques which externalize sounds for headphone audio, such as a virtual surround sound headphone system. In various implementations, room reverberations and other acoustic effects of the environment may be more accurately modeled using improved room reverberation models. For example, in some implementations, the underlying source signal may be filtered with a filter representing a room impulse response that is a combination of a stereo room impulse response and a mono room impulse response. By way of further example, in some implementations the source signal may be filtered with a combined impulse response filter that is derived from binaural recordings of simulated impulses recorded in a desired reverberant environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Frederick Umminger, Scott Wardle
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Patent number: 7273980Abstract: A system and method for capturing turntable expressions using generated high-powered and low-powered signals to transduce the absolute position and velocity information of forward and reverse movements of a turntable stylus.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2005Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Inventor: Scott A. Wardle
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Patent number: 7231054Abstract: This invention addresses sound recording and mixing methods for 3-D audio rendering of multiple sound sources over headphones or loudspeaker playback systems. Economical techniques are provided, whereby directional panning and mixing of sounds are performed in a multi-channel encoding format which preserves interaural time difference information and does not contain head-related spectral information. Decoders are provided for converting the multi-channel encoded signal into signals for playback over headphones or various loudspeaker arrangements. These decoders ensure faithful reproduction of directional auditory information at the eardrums of the listener and can be adapted to the number and geometrical layout of the loudspeakers and the individual characteristics of the listener. A particular multi-channel encoding format is disclosed, which, in addition to the above advantages, is associated with a practical microphone technique for producing 3-D audio recordings compliant with the decoders described.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Creative Technology LtdInventors: Jean-Marc Jot, Scott Wardle
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Publication number: 20050152236Abstract: A system and method for capturing turntable expressions using generated high-powered and low-powered signals to transduce the absolute position and velocity information of forward and reverse movements of a turntable stylus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2005Publication date: July 14, 2005Inventor: Scott Wardle