Apple patents 3D visuals that sync with immersive audio playback
Apple describes a system that creates computer-generated 3D visuals to play alongside audio tracks in an immersive mode. The device retrieves audio data, generates time-synchronized metadata, and displays a 3D visualization that matches the sound in a three-dimensional environment.
In the filing’s own words
Computer-generated visualization accompanies playback of an audio track. In some examples, systems and methods include detecting, via the one or more input devices, a first input corresponding to a request to playback a first audio track in an immersive mode at the electronic device. In response to detecting the first input the method may further include retrieving a set of audio data from a respective application associated with the first audio track. The method may further include generating, using the set of audio data, a plurality of time synchronized metadata. The method may further include presenting, via the one or more displays, a computer-generated visualization using the plurality of time synchronized metadata in a three-dimensional environment, where the computer-generated visualization includes a three-dimensional visualization corresponding to the first audio track in accordance with the immersive mode of playback.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: at an electronic device in communication with one or more displays and one or more input devices: detecting, via the one or more input devices, a first input corresponding to a request to playback a first audio track in an immersive mode at the electronic device; and in response to detecting the first input: retrieving a set of audio data from a respective application associated with the first audio track; generating, using the set of audio data, a plurality of time synchronized metadata; and presenting, via the one or more displays, a computer-generated visualization using the plurality of time synchronized metadata in a three-dimensional environment, wherein the computer-generated visualization includes a three-dimensional visualization corresponding to the first audio track in accordance with the immersive mode of playback.
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRESENTING IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH AUDIO TRACKS
- Publication number
- US20260320888A1
- Application number
- 19549866
- Filed
- Feb 25, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 29
Classified under
G06T 13/205 Physics & computingG06F 3/011 Physics & computingG06F 3/165 Physics & computingG06T 15/10 Physics & computingH04S 7/308 Electricity & electronicsH04S 2400/11 Electricity & electronicsMore from Apple in Audio & voice
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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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