Portable electronic device directed audio targeted multiple user system and method

• US 10,181,314 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2013
• Issued: 01/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Baym, Michael H., Duncan, William David, Hyde, Roderick A., Jung, Edward K. Y., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Wood, Jr., Lowell L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Paul, Disler
• Application Number:
  US13/920,305
• Publication Number:
  US 20140369514A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,037 Days
• Field of Search: 381 77, 381111-113, 381 711, 381 716- 717
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/178 by electro-acoustically regenerating the original acoustic waves in anti-phase
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/03 Constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. telephone hand-sets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6016 in the receiver circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/403 loud-speakers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/401 2D or 3D arrays of transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2203/12 Beamforming aspects for stereophonic sound reproduction with loudspeaker arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2217/03 Parametric transducers where sound is generated or captured by the acoustic demodulation of amplitude modulated ultrasonic waves
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2430/20 Processing of the output signals of the acoustic transducers of an array for obtaining a desired directivity characteristic H04R2203/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/11 Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/15 Transducers incorporated in visual displaying devices, e.g. televisions, computer displays, laptops
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/12 for distributing signals to two or more loudspeakers specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/407
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 5/02 Spatial or constructional arrangements of loudspeakers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 5/04 Circuit arrangements, e.g. for selective connection of amplifier inputs/outputs to loudspeakers, for loudspeaker detection, or for adaptation of settings to personal preferences or hearing impairments combinations of amplifiers H03F3/68; stereophonic systems H04S

Abstract

A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically modulating two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from two or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device; and electronically projecting said two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from said portable electronic device emitters to produce a first set of one or more acoustic audio signals from a first set of said two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at a first location and to produce a second set of one or more second acoustic audio signals from of a second set of said two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at a second location. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A computationally-implemented method comprising:

(a) electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device; and

(b) electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations, the electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals including at least adjusting one or more characteristics of one or more acoustic audio signals to be down converted from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at the one or more target locations based at least in part on received input indicative of at least microphone sensing of one or more acoustic audio signals down converted at the one or more target locations, including at least;

(1) electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from an array of transducers, wherein at least a portion of the array of transducers are disposed at least one of at least partially within or at least partially behind a display screen of a portable electronic device; and

(2) electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at least in part by steering one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to one or more target locations at least in part using acoustic imaging to identify the one or more target locations;

including at least;

(A) steering one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to one or more target listeners and away from one or more third persons at least in part with phased array control according to detection of the one or more third persons at least in part with acoustic imaging;

wherein at least one of the electronically modulating or the electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device is performed at least in part with one or more processing devices.

2. A computationally-implemented system comprising:

(a) circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device; and

(b) circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations, the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals configured to adjust one or more characteristics of one or more acoustic audio signals to be down converted from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at the one or more target locations based at least in part on received input indicative of at least microphone sensing of one or more acoustic audio signals down converted at the one or more target locations, including at least;

(1) circuitry for electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from an array of transducers, at least a portion of the array of transducers being placed at least one of at least partially within or at least partially behind a display screen of a portable electronic device;

(2) circuitry for electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at least in part by steering one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to one or more target locations at least in part using acoustic imaging to identify the one or more target locations; and

(3) circuitry for adjusting projection of one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to a target location based at least partly on accelerometer data regarding movement of the portable electronic device relative to the target location.

3. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device comprises:

circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to received input indicative of at least microphone sensing of one or more acoustic audio reference signals at the one or more target locations.

4. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device comprises:

circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters integrated in an athletic sports helmet.

5. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device comprises:

circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of one or more electronic wristwatch systems.

6. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device comprises:

circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals via one or more steered beams of acoustic ultrasonic signals.

7. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device comprises:

circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals modulated via one or more audio signals.

8. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device comprises:

circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device in accordance with relative position of the portable electronic device with one or more target listeners.

9. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device comprises:

circuitry for electronically modulating the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device being in a frequency range of between 60 to 200 kHz.

10. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device comprises:

circuitry for electronically modulating the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to be transmitted as one or more beams of acoustic ultrasonic signals outputted to interact non-linearly with human tissue to down convert to one or more acoustic audio signals.

11. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations further comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals including steering one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to at least in part visual imaging of one or more target listeners.

12. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at least in part by steering one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to one or more target locations at least in part using acoustic imaging to identify the one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for steering one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to one or more target locations at least in part with phased array control according to an identification of the one or more target locations at least in part with acoustic ultrasonic imaging of one or more target listeners.

13. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations further comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals including adjusting acoustic ultrasonic signal amplitude based on thermal tracking of one or more target listeners.

14. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals for interference of the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals.

15. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals for nonlinear non-tissue solid interaction of one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals.

16. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals including one or more acoustic audio signals tailored according to feedback sensing by portable electronic device.

17. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals including one or more stereophonic acoustic audio signals.

18. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals containing out-of-phase cancellation of background sound in a vicinity of a target listener.

19. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals containing phase-shifting of an original speech of a target listener in near real-time to the original speech being uttered.

20. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals including audio output information containing an entire amount of the audio output information.

21. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals including audio output information containing verbal oratory.

22. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals at a target location in a vicinity of one or more ears of a target listener.

23. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals at a target location in a vicinity of a first individual.

24. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals at a target location identified through sensor data as being a vicinity of a target listener'"'"'s head.

25. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals at a first location and a second location being spaced less than twelve feet.

26. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

at least one of;

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from a handheld mobile portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals;

or

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from a cell phone portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals at a location.

27. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from a laptop computer portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals.

28. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from a personal data assistant (PDA) portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals.

29. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from a security personnel device portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals.

30. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from a wearable media portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals.

31. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from a wristwatch device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals.

32. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from a two-way radio portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals.

33. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals to compensate for Doppler frequency shifting due to movement of said portable electronic device.

34. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic audio signals at an ear-ring via interaction of the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals with the ear ring.

35. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to produce one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals near a passive receiver such as an ear ring.

36. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from an array of transducers, at least a portion of the array of transducers being placed at least one of at least partially within or at least partially behind a display screen of a portable electronic device comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from an array of transducers, at least a portion of the array of transducers being placed at least one of at least partially within or at least partially behind a thin display screen of a smartphone.

37. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from transducer placement at least partially in keyboard area of a portable electronic device.

38. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more transducers having dimensional sizing of less than 10 millimeters.

39. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals via one or more transducers having dimensional sizing of less than 30 wavelengths of the lowest frequency of the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals.

40. The computationally-implemented system of claim 12, wherein said circuitry for steering one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to one or more target locations at least in part with phased array control according to an identification of the one or more target locations at least in part with acoustic ultrasonic imaging of one or more target listeners comprises:

circuitry for steering one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to one or more target listeners and away from one or more third persons at least in part with phased array control according to detection of the third persons at least in part with acoustic ultrasonic imaging.

41. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein said circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations, the circuitry for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals configured to adjust one or more characteristics of one or more acoustic audio signals to be down converted from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at the one or more target locations based at least in part on received input indicative of at least microphone sensing of one or more acoustic audio signals down converted at the one or more target locations comprises:

circuitry for adjusting one or more characteristics of the one or more acoustic audio signals to be down converted from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals, the one or more characteristics including at least one of audio signal amplitude, audio signal quality, or anti-noise audio signal amplitude.

42. A computer program product comprising:

at least one non-transitory medium bearing at least;

(a) one or more instructions for electronically modulating one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from one or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device; and

(b) one or more instructions for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from the one or more portable electronic device emitters of the portable electronic device to produce one or more acoustic audio signals from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at one or more target locations, the one or more instructions for electronically projecting the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals configured to adjust one or more characteristics of one or more acoustic audio signals to be down converted from the one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at the one or more target locations based at least in part on received input indicative of at least microphone sensing of one or more acoustic audio signals down converted at the one or more target locations, including at least;

(1) one or more instructions for electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from an array of transducers, at least a portion of the array of transducers being placed at least one of at least partially within or at least partially behind a display screen of a portable electronic device, (2) one or more instructions for electronically projecting one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at least in part by steering one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to one or more target locations at least in part using acoustic imaging to identify the one or more target locations; and

(3) one of more instructions for adjusting projection of one or more acoustic ultrasonic signals to a target location based at least partly on accelerometer data regarding movement of the portable electronic device relative to the target location.