MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517096048 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 Guerin, Alexandre; Lefort, Arnaud; and Ragot, Stephane.

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 selection (305), for one stereophonic signal frame, between: - a first channel-reducing processing mode (T1) comprising filtering with re-p...