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Granted Patent B2
US 10,984,350 · App. 16/989,947 · Granted Apr 20, 2021

Modifying a sound source data based on a sound profile

Inventors: Glenn KnicKrehm (Cambridge, MA); Alban Bassuet (New York, NY); Andrew Neill Woodger (London, GB)
Assignee: Constellation Productions, Inc.
G06Q10/02A63J1/02E04B1/994G01H7/00G06F30/13G06F30/20G09B23/14G10K11/002G10K15/00H04R29/00
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Patent No.
US 10,984,350
App. No.
16/989,947
Granted
Apr 20, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a computer-based method for modifying a sound source, including accessing, by an acoustic processing facility including at least one processor, a multi-dimensional sound profile of an acoustic environment, wherein the multi-dimensional sound profile comprises a time-based sound reflection sequence for the acoustic environment; and modifying, by the acoustic processing facility, a sound source data based on the multi-dimensional sound profile to generate a modified sound data.

Claims (41)

1. A computer-based method for modifying a sound source, the method comprising:

accessing, by an acoustic processing facility including at least one processor, a multi-dimensional sound profile of an acoustic environment, wherein the multi-dimensional sound profile comprises a time-based sound reflection sequence for the acoustic environment; and

modifying, by the acoustic processing facility, a sound source data based on the multi-dimensional sound profile to generate a modified sound data.

2. The computer-based method of claim 1 , wherein the time-based sound reflection sequence comprises at least two sound parameters selected from a group consisting of amplitude, frequency, and sound quality.

3. The computer-based method of claim 1 , wherein the time-based sound reflection sequence comprises primary and secondary reflections from a single sound source.

4. The computer-based method of claim 1 , the method further comprising: transmitting the modified sound data to a sound output device, wherein the modified sound data simulates a sound characteristic of the acoustic environment.

5. The computer-based method of claim 4 , wherein the sound output device is a speaker.

6. The computer-based method of claim 4 , wherein the sound output device is a headphone.

7. The computer-based method of claim 4 , wherein modifying further comprises:

modifying the sound source data based on another acoustic environment into which the modified sound data will be output through the sound output device.

8. The computer-based method of claim 7 , wherein:

the another acoustic environment is a theater and/or a cinema; and

the modified sound data simulates listening to a sound as if played in the acoustic environment.

9. The computer-based method of claim 7 , wherein the another acoustic environment is a home theater and/or a conference room, where the modified sound data simulates listening to a sound as if played in the acoustic environment.

10. The computer-based method of claim 7 , wherein the another acoustic environment is a headphone environment, where the modified sound data simulates listening to a sound as if played in the acoustic environment.

11. The computer-based method of claim 4 , wherein:

the sound output device comprises the acoustic processing facility; and

the sound output device modifies the sound source data to generate the modified sound data.

12. The computer-based method of claim 4 , wherein modifying further comprises:

modifying the sound source data based on at least one sound system component of the sound output device.

13. The computer-based method of claim 4 , wherein:

the sound output device outputs audible sound into a second acoustic environment; and

modifying the sound source data based on the multi-dimensional sound profile generates a modified sound data that resembles at least one characteristic of the multi-dimensional sound profile of the acoustic environment.

14. A system comprising:

an acoustic processing facility comprising at least one processor and at least one memory device that stores an application that adapts the processor to perform the below steps:

access a multi-dimensional sound profile of an acoustic environment, wherein the multi-dimensional sound profile comprises a time-based sound reflection sequence for the acoustic environment; and

modify a sound source data based on the multi-dimensional sound profile to generate a modified sound data.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the time-based sound reflection sequence comprises:

at least two sound parameters selected from a group consisting of amplitude, frequency, and sound quality.

16. The system of claim 14 , wherein the time-based sound reflection sequence comprises:

primary and secondary reflection from a single sound source.

17. The system of claim 14 , wherein:

the modified sound data is transmitted to a sound output device; and

the modified sound data simulates a sound characteristic of the acoustic environment.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein modifying further comprises:

modifying the sound source data based on a second acoustic environment into which the modified sound data will be output through the sound output device.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein:

the second acoustic environment is a headphone environment; and

the modified sound data simulates listening to a sound as if played in the acoustic environment.

20. The system of claim 14 , wherein modifying further comprises:

modifying the sound source data based on at least one sound system component of a sound output device.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2021
From: WOODGER, ANDREW NEILL; BASSUET, ALBAN
To: ARUP AMERICAS, INC.
Reel/Frame 055236/0080 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2021
From: ARUP AMERICAS, INC.
To: CONSTELLATION PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Reel/Frame 055236/0244 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2021
From: KNICKREHM, GLENN
To: CONSTELLATION PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Reel/Frame 055236/0319 →
Continuity (9)
Continuation 16292587 · Mar 5, 2019
Continuation 15713740 · Sep 25, 2017
Continuation 14742920 · Jun 18, 2015
Continuation 13745463 · Jan 18, 2013
Continuation 12495019 · Jun 30, 2009
Provisional Application 61185837 · Jun 10, 2009
Provisional Application 61176426 · May 7, 2009
Provisional Application 61076859 · Jun 30, 2008
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