ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,374, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"3D sound orientation adaptability" was invented by S M Akramus Salehin (San Diego), Shankar Thagadur Shivappa (San Diego), Sanghyun Chi (San Diego) and Nils Gunther Peters (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes one or more processors configured to receive orientation data and to select, based on the orientation data, a particular filter from among multiple filters. The one or more processors are configured to perform signal processing operations associated with three-dimensional (3D) sound data based on the particular filter."
The patent was f...