US Patent Issued to Apple on April 22 for "Visual content presentation with viewer position-based audio" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,508, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Visual content presentation with viewer position-based audio" was invented by Shai Messingher Lang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco), Spencer H. Ray (San Jose, Calif.) and Symeon Delikaris Manias (Playa Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that display visual content as part of a 3D environment and add audio corresponding to the visual content. The audio may be spatialized to be from one or more audio source locations within the 3D environment. For exam...