Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Incoherent idempotent ambisonics rendering
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Application No.: US15666220Application Date: 2017-08-01
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Publication No.: US10015618B1Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Willem Bastiaan Kleijn , Andrew Allen , Jan Skoglund , Sze Chie Lim
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP
- Main IPC: H04R5/02
- IPC: H04R5/02 ; H04S7/00 ; H04S3/00

Abstract:
Techniques of rendering sound for a listener involve producing, as the amplitude of each of the source driving signals, a sum of two terms: a first term based on a solution s† to the equation b=A·s, and a second term based on a projection of a specified vector ŝ onto the nullspace of A, ŝ not being a solution to the equation b=A·s. Along these lines, in one example, the first term is equivalent to a Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse, e.g., AH(AAH)−1·b. In general, any solution to the equation b=A·s is satisfactory. The specified vector that is projected onto the nullspace of A is defined to reduce the coherence of the net sound field. Advantageously, the resulting operator is both linear time-invariant and idempotent so that the sound field may be faithfully reproduce both inside the RSF and at a sufficient range outside the RSF to cover a human head.
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