US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Aug. 12 for "Head tracking and HRTF prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,189, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Head tracking and HRTF prediction" was invented by Ajit Ninan (San Jose, Calif.) and William Anthony Rozzi (Califon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Images of a user's head are acquired at a plurality of different orientational angles through image sensors operating in conjunction with a media consumption system. The acquired images of the user's head are used to select or predict a specific personalized head related transfer function for the user. Spatial audio rendered by audio speakers operating in conjunction with the media consumpt...