US Patent Issued to Apple on July 1 for "Processing sound in an enhanced reality environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,953, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Processing sound in an enhanced reality environment" was invented by Christopher T. Eubank (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Joshua D. Atkins (Los Angeles), Soenke Pelzer (San Jose, Calif.) and Dirk Schroeder (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing sound in an enhanced reality environment can include generating, based on an image of a physical environment, an acoustic model of the physical environment. Audio signals captured by a microphone array, can capture a sound in the physical environment. Based on these audio signals, one or more measured acoust...