ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,521, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Visual guidance of audio direction" was invented by Danqing Sha (Shanghai), Amy N. Seibel (Newton, Mass.), Eric Bruno (Shirley, N.Y.) and Zhen Jia (Pudong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes generating sound information regarding sound sources in an environment. The sound information is generated by separating and localizing the sound sources. The sound information is then presented as guidance to a user. The guidance may be presented graphically in a user interface, haptically, or in another manner."
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