MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517096047 A) filed by Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, on Oct. 6, 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 Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.

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 the following: - application (610, 611), to a current frame of said signal, of two (T1 or T2, T3) channel-reducing processing operations, o...