Granted Patent B2

US 12,688,761 · App. 18/092,431 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Inventors: Will Lowther (Gloucester, GB); James Powell (Bristol, GB); Andy Martin (Bristol, GB); Ryan Page (Saltford, GB); Brian Kappus (Campbell, CA); Benjamin John Oliver Long (Bristol, GB)

Assignee: SIM IP HXR LLC

G08B6/00

Abstract

Claims (29)

1 . A device comprising:

first acoustic transducer and a second acoustic transducers for creating an acoustic field; and

circuitry configured to:

receive a primitive based on a spatiotemporal modulation circle for manipulating the acoustic field using the first acoustic transducer and the second acoustic transducer, wherein the primitive comprises:

at least one coordinate locations with associated amplitude,

at least one transform, and

at least one acoustic solver.

2 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the primitive comprises an amplitude modulation point.

3 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the primitive comprises a set of sequential points that draw a circle.

4 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one transform comprises animation transforms and stored transforms.

5 . The device of claim 4 , wherein the animation transforms are applied to their associated base transform at regular intervals.

6 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the animation transforms comprise affine transforms.

7 . The device of claim 4 , wherein the at least one transform generates outputs in 3 dimensions.

8 . The device of claim 1 , further comprising a ring buffer for a queue that maps onto behavior of the plurality of acoustic transducers along a timeline when a user is actively streaming data to the device, thereby creating past states.

9 . The device of claim 8 , further comprising future states defining future behavior of the device that are added incrementally to the ring buffer at a write index.

10 . The device of claim 9 , further comprising present states created by interpolated the future states with past states.

11 . The device of claim 1 , further comprising a ring buffer for a queue that maps onto behavior of the plurality of acoustic transducers along a timeline, thereby creating past states.

12 . The device of claim 11 , further comprising new state data generated by extrapolating desired future behavior of the device from the past states.

13 . The device of claim 12 , wherein the new state data is extrapolated when a user is not actively streaming data to the device.

14 . A method comprising:

receiving a primitive based on a spatiotemporal modulation circle, wherein the primitive comprises at least one coordinate location with associated amplitude; at least one transform; and

at least one acoustic solver; and

driving a first acoustic transducer and a second acoustic transducer according to the primitive to generate an acoustic field.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the primitive comprises a set of sequential points that draw a circle.

16 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the at least one transform comprises animation transforms and stored transforms.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the animation transforms are applied to their associated base transform at regular intervals.

18 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the animation transforms comprise affine transforms.

19 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the at least one transform generates outputs in 3 dimensions.

20 . The method of claim 14 , further comprising a ring buffer for a queue that maps onto behavior of the plurality of acoustic transducers along a timeline when a user is actively streaming data to a device, thereby creating past states.

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