Apparatus, Methods and Computer Programs for Encoding Spatial Metadata

    公开(公告)号:US20240312469A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-19

    申请号:US18678716

    申请日:2024-05-30

    CPC classification number: G10L19/008 G10L2019/0001

    Abstract: An apparatus configured to: obtain spatial audio content; decode encoded spatial metadata associated with the spatial audio content based, at least partially, on a configuration parameter indicative of a codec configuration used to encode, at least in part, spatial metadata; determine at least one prototype audio signal based, at least partially, on the spatial audio content and a configuration of at least one output device; and determine one or more spatial audio signals based, at least partially, on the at least one prototype audio signal and the decoded spatial metadata; and provide, to the at least one output device, the one or more spatial audio signals.

    Sound source distance estimation
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11644528B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-09

    申请号:US16626242

    申请日:2018-06-13

    Abstract: An apparatus for generating at least one distance estimate to at least one sound source within a sound scene comprising the least one sound source, the apparatus configured to: receive at least two audio signals from a microphone array located within the sound scene; receive at least one further audio signal associated with the at least one sound source; determine at least one portion of the at least two audio signals from a microphone array corresponding to the at least one further audio signal associated with the at least one sound source; determine a distance estimate to the at least one sound source based on the at least one portion of the at least two audio signals from a microphone array corresponding to the at least one further audio signal associated with the at least one sound source.

    Apparatus and method for processing volumetric audio

    公开(公告)号:US11521591B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-06

    申请号:US16768968

    申请日:2018-11-29

    Abstract: A method including receiving an audio scene including at least one source captured using at least one near field microphone and at least one far field microphone. The method includes determining at least one room-impulse-response associated with the audio scene based on the at least one near field microphone and the at least one far field microphone, accessing a predetermined scene geometry corresponding to the audio scene, and identifying best match to the predetermined scene geometry in a scene geometry database. The method also includes performing RIR comparison based on the at least one RIR and at least one geometric RIR associated with the best matching geometry and rendering a volumetric audio scene based on a result of the RIR comparison.

    Monitoring
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11429189B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-30

    申请号:US15538739

    申请日:2015-12-21

    Abstract: A method including recognizing at least one gesture to define at least one computer-implemented virtual boundary in a monitoring space, wherein the gesture includes a motion along a path and at a location in a monitored scene space wherein there is a correspondence between the monitoring space and the monitored scene space; causing implementation of the at least one virtual boundary in the monitoring space corresponding to the scene space, wherein at least part of the virtual boundary is determined by the path in the monitored scene space and the at least part of the virtual boundary is located in the monitoring space at a corresponding location equivalent to the path location; and processing received data to generate a response event when there is, relative to the at least one virtual boundary, a change in a portion of the monitored scene space.

    Controlling rendering of a spatial audio scene

    公开(公告)号:US11337020B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-17

    申请号:US17053297

    申请日:2019-05-29

    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: obtaining an indication of a position of at least one user in real space; mapping the position of the user in real space to a position of the user in a sound space; and controlling an output audio signal, for rendering a sound scene via multiple audio channels, to provide rendering of a first sub-set of sound sources via at least a first sub-set of the multiple audio output channels and rendering a second sub-set of sound sources via at least a second sub-set of the multiple audio output channels, wherein an allocation of a plurality of sound sources to the first sub-set of sound sources or the second sub-set of sound sources is dependent upon at least a position of the user in the sound space; wherein an allocation of the multiple audio output channels to the first sub-set of the multiple audio output channels or the second sub-set of the multiple audio output channels is dependent upon available audio paths for the multiple audio output channels.

    Apparatus, associated method and associated computer readable medium

    公开(公告)号:US11169602B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-09

    申请号:US16462434

    申请日:2017-11-21

    Abstract: An apparatus configured to, based on virtual reality content for presentation to a user in a virtual reality space for viewing in virtual reality, wherein a virtual reality view presented to the user provides for viewing of the virtual reality content, and an identified physical real-world object; providing for display of an object image that at least includes a representation of the identified physical real-world object that is overlaid on the virtual reality content presented in the virtual reality view, the object image displayed at a location in the virtual reality space that corresponds to a real-world location of the identified physical real-world object relative to the user, the object image further including at least a representation of a further physical real-world object that is identified as potentially hindering physical user-access to said identified physical real-world object.

    Rendering captions for media content

    公开(公告)号:US11069137B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-20

    申请号:US16832640

    申请日:2020-03-27

    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for rendering virtual reality content, wherein the virtual reality content comprises a virtual reality object associated with a caption and wherein the caption is rendered within a field of view of a user; determining a level of interest with respect to the virtual reality object; and determining if the caption is to be rendered based at least partly on the determined level of interest associated with the virtual reality object.

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