SEAMLESS SCALABLE DECODING OF CHANNELS, OBJECTS, AND HOA AUDIO CONTENT

    公开(公告)号:WO2022066426A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-31

    申请号:PCT/US2021/049744

    申请日:2021-09-10

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for decoding immersive audio content encoded by an adaptive number of scene elements for channels, audio objects, higher-order ambisonics (HOA), and/or other sound field representations. The decoded audio is rendered to the speaker configuration of a playback device. For bit streams that represent audio scenes with a different mixture of channels, objects, and/or HOA in consecutive frames, fade-in of the new frame and fade-out of the old frame may be performed. Crossfading between consecutive frames happen in the speaker layout after rendering, in the spatially decoded content type before rendering, or between the transport channels as the output of the baseline decoder but before spatial decoding and rendering. Crossfading may use an immediate fade-in and fade-out frame (IFFF) for the transition frame or may use an overlap-add synthesis technique such as time-domain aliasing cancellation (TDAC) of MDCT.

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