US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe on Feb. 10 for "Methods and systems for simulating perception of a sound source" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,921, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd. (London).

"Methods and systems for simulating perception of a sound source" was invented by Calum Armstrong (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio personalisation method for simulating perception of a vertical displacement of a sound source, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining an input head related transfer function, HRTF, associated with a user; determining an intended vertical displacement for the sound source; selecting at least one frequency region in the input HRTF; and adjusting the amplitude of the selected frequency region(s)...