Samsung patents smart glasses that adjust microphones based on AR or camera view
Samsung has been granted a patent for an electronic device, such as smart glasses, that changes how it listens to sound depending on what you are seeing. When the device shows a virtual 3D world, it uses different microphones and sound settings than when it shows a live camera feed of the real world. This allows the device to focus on specific voices or block out background noise more effectively based on the current mode.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device according to the disclosure may include: a display disposed around an eye of a user when being worn on a body part of the user, a plurality of microphones configured to receive an external signal, a camera, a speaker configured to reproduce a signal, at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry, and a memory. At least one processor, individually and/or collectively, may be configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory and to operate any one of a first mode or a second mode according to a designated condition, the first mode displaying a virtual space on the display and the second mode displaying a real space captured via the camera on the display. Based on the operation of one of the first mode or the second mode, at least one processor, individually and/or collectively may be configured to control the electronic device to: differently determine a location of a microphone to be activated for inputting an external signal among the plurality of microphones disposed in the electronic device, may differently determine a number of microphones to be activated for inputting an external signal among the plurality of microphones disposed in the electronic device, may differently determine whether to activate functions related to amplifying or blocking an external sound, and may differently determine a direction of beamforming generation for receiving a voice signal via the microphone.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a display disposed around an eye of a user based on being worn on a body part; a plurality of microphones disposed at different locations and configured to receive an audio signal including voice signals and external sounds; a camera; a speaker configured to reproduce an audio signal; at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry; and memory storing instructions and comprising one or more storage media; wherein the instructions, when individually or collectively executed by at least one processor, cause the electronic device to: operate one of a first mode or a second mode according to a designated condition, the first mode configured to display a virtual space on the display and the second mode configured to display a real space captured via the camera on the display; and based on operation of one of the first mode or the second mode: determine which microphones among the plurality of microphones to activate, selectively activate functions related to amplifying or blocking an external sound in the received audio signal, and determine a different beamforming direction for receiving a voice signal in the received audio signal via at least one of the microphones.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Electronic device and method for controlling audio signal output using the same
- Patent number
- US12764464B2
- Application number
- 18821109
- Filed
- Aug 30, 2024
- Granted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 15
Classified under
H04R 3/005 Electricity & electronicsH04R 1/028 Electricity & electronicsH04R 1/406 Electricity & electronicsH04R 3/02 Electricity & electronicsH04R 2430/01 Electricity & electronicsH04R 2499/15 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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