C. Phillip Brown

How Smart Speakers Adapt Sound to Your Room and Listening Spot

This patent describes a system that automatically adjusts how spatial audio sounds in a room by sensing speaker locations, listener position, and room acoustics, then dynamically calibrating the sound output.

How a Device Renders Immersive Sound Objects Using Speaker Virtualization

Dolby's patent describes an audio processing system that takes individual sound elements, like a buzzing bee, and places them precisely in a 3D space using smart software that makes speakers sound like they are in different locations.

How Speakers Create Overhead Sound from Ceiling Reflections

This patent describes a system using upward-firing speakers and special sound filters to trick your ears into hearing overhead sounds by reflecting audio off the ceiling.