Apple Inc. (20250085132). SPATIAL AUDIO NAVIGATION

SPATIAL AUDIO NAVIGATION

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Bruno M. Sommer of Cupertino CA (US)

Avi Bar-zeev of Oakland CA (US)

Frank Angermann of Munich (DE)

Stephen E. Pinto of Mountain View CA (US)

Lilli Ing-Marie Jonsson of Saratoga CA (US)

Rahul Nair of Daly City CA (US)

SPATIAL AUDIO NAVIGATION

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250085132 titled 'SPATIAL AUDIO NAVIGATION

Original Abstract Submitted

methods and apparatus for spatial audio navigation that may, for example, be implemented by mobile multipurpose devices. a spatial audio navigation system provides navigational information in audio form to direct users to target locations. the system uses directionality of audio played through a binaural audio device to provide navigational cues to the user. a current location, target location, and map information may be input to pathfinding algorithms to determine a real world path between the user's current location and the target location. the system may then use directional audio played through a headset to guide the user on the path from the current location to the target location. the system may implement one or more of several different spatial audio navigation methods to direct a user when following a path using spatial audio-based cues.