US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 25 for "Method and system for efficiently encoding scene positions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,854, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for efficiently encoding scene positions" was invented by Frank Baumgarte (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes receiving a bitstream that comprises: an encoded version of an audio signal that is associated with a sound source that is within a first 3D scene, a scene tree structure that includes an origin of the first scene relative to an origin of a second scene, and a position of the sound source within the first scene relative to the origin of the first scene, wherein the p...