US Patent Issued to Harman International Industries on July 1 for "Generating torso shapes suitable for synthesis of head-related transfer functions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,948, issued on July 1, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Generating torso shapes suitable for synthesis of head-related transfer functions" was invented by Alfredo Fernandez Franco (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Christian Manuel Garcia (Winnetka, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include techniques for generating a clean 3D shape of a portion of the human torso of a subject from a 3D scan that includes overlaying surfaces that occlude a portion of the torso, where the overlaying surfaces are acoustically transparent, such as wrinkles on a t-shirt and/or other clothing surfac...