ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,879, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Shared point of view" was invented by Shai Messingher Lang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jonathan D. Sheaffer (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sound sources can be spatially rendered in a setting and shown through a display. In response to satisfaction of a threshold criterion that is satisfied based on relative distance between the sound sources and a position of a listener, the rendering of the sound sources can be adjusted to maintain spatial integrity of the sound sources. The adjustment can be performed to prevent one of the sound sources from a...