US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 5 for "Seamless scalable decoding of channels, objects, and HOA audio content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,904, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Seamless scalable decoding of channels, objects, and HOA audio content" was invented by Moo Young Kim (San Diego), Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.), Eric Allamanche (Sunnyvale, Calif.), J. Kevin Calhoun (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Frank Baumgarte (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sina Zamani (Cupertino, Calif.) and Eric Day (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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 representatio...