Techniques for personalizing audio levels

Abstract

Techniques for personalizing audio levels, in accordance with embodiments of the present technology, provide different audio volumes to different locations in a room allowing for two or more users to enjoy the same audio content at different volumes. Differential level and delay compensation filtering based on a position of each of a plurality of speakers, the location of each user and the preferred relative audio volume of each user are utilized to produce different effective audio levels in localized regions of a room.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]In the past, electronic audio and video systems included radio, television and record players that output audio in a single channel format. More recently, electronic audio and video systems have expanded to include video games, CD / DVD players, streaming audio (e.g., internet radio), MP3 devices, and the like. The audio and video systems now typically output audio in multi-channel formats such as stereo and surround sound. The use of multi-channel format audio generally enhances the user's listening and viewing experience by more closely replicating the original audio and / or enhancing a visual perception. For example, multi-channel audio may be used to output different instruments on different speakers to give the listener the feeling of being in the middle of a band. In another example, in a movie the audio track of a plane may be faded from front to back to aid the perception of a plane flying out of the screen and past the viewer. However, users ty...

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Benefits of technology

[0003]In another embodiment, a system for personalizing audio levels includes a plurality of speakers, a source of audio and a signal processor. The signal processor receives audio from the source and causes the plurality of speakers to output a localized audio volume proximate each user based upon a location and preferred relative audio volume of each user.

Problems solved by technology

However, users typically perceive the audio differently from one another.

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