US 12,170,876 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and video sound output system
Akira Yoshida, Tokyo (JP); Hiroshi Adachi, Tokyo (JP); and Naoki Okamoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/141,775.
Application 18/141,775 is a continuation of application No. 17/265,621, granted, now 11,647,334, issued on May 9, 2023, previously published as PCT/JP2019/028972, filed on Jul. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-152121 (JP), filed on Aug. 10, 2018; and application No. PCT/JP2019/019714 (WO), filed on May 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0269537 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04R 5/04 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 5/02 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 5/04 (2013.01) [H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 5/02 (2013.01); H04S 7/302 (2013.01); H04S 7/40 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to
detect a position of a sound source in a video to be displayed on a screen of a display, the sound source being placed in a plane of an image frame of the video; and
control one or more vibrators to vibrate the display such that sound is localized at a position corresponding to the position, on the screen displaying the image frame of the video, of the sound source placed in the plane.