US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe on July 29 for "3D spatialisation of voice chat" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,448, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd. (London).

"3D spatialisation of voice chat" was invented by Calum Armstrong (London), Christopher Buchanan (London) and Danjeli Schembri (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides techniques for intelligently positioning speech in a virtual environment. Factors such as user preferences, the location of virtual environment audio and/or visual events, avatar location, and others can be taken into account when selecting a suitable location for the speech. The virtual environment can be a game environment, a meeting environment, an augme...