MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517093952 A) filed by Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, on Sept. 30, for 'optimized processing for reducing channels of a stereophonic audio signal.'

Inventor(s) include Ragot, Stephane; Guerin, Alexandre; and Lefort, Arnaud.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a processing method for reducing channels of a stereophonic signal to obtain a monophonic signal, comprising, for a current frame: - a first step of selection (305) of a channel-reducing processing operation between two methods using filtering of...