Patent ID: 11950084
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method for acoustically rendering a three-dimensional virtual environment, the method comprising:
receiving listener information that comprises a listener position in the three-dimensional virtual environment;
receiving sound producing object information that comprises a position of the sound producing object in the three-dimensional virtual environment;
associating one or more audio characteristics with the sound producing object, wherein one of the audio characteristics defines a sound to be produced by the sound producing object as a script for synthesizing the sound to be produced by the sound producing object; and
modifying a level of detail of the sound over time and according to a distance between the listener position and the position of the sound producing object by changing the script for synthesizing the sound to be produced by the sound producing object.