US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Decorrelating objects based on attention" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,306, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Decorrelating objects based on attention" was invented by David E. Romblom (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tomlinson Holman (Palm Springs, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a measure of a user's attention to a sound source in a spatial audio environment. Based on the measure of the user's attention to the sound source, one or more filters for decorrelating the sound source are determined. The sound source is spatially rendered, including applying the one or more filters to the sound source."

The patent was filed on Feb. 6, 2024, under ...