US Patent Issued to Apple on July 28 for "Methods and systems for automatically updating look directions of radiation patterns" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,044, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for automatically updating look directions of radiation patterns" was invented by James A. Livingston (Oakland, Calif.), Jack P. Newman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Frank Baumgarte (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Francois Becker (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes displaying a user interface (UI) of a three-dimensional (3D) acoustic environment that includes a sound source; receiving a user selection, via an input device, of a location within the UI, the location towards which the sound source is to be oriented within the 3D...