ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,596, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Extracting ambience from a stereo input" was invented by Ismael H. Nawfal (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Mehrez Souden (Los Angeles) and Juha O. Merimaa (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound scene is represented as first order Ambisonics (FOA) audio. A processor formats each signal of the FOA audio to a stream of audio frames, provides the formatted FOA audio to a machine learning model that reformats the formatted FOA audio in a target or desired higher order Ambisonics (HOA) format, and obtains output audio of the sound scene in the desired HOA f...