US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 30 for "Method and system for spatially rendering three-dimensional (3D) scenes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,516, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for spatially rendering three-dimensional (3D) scenes" 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 first bitstream that includes an encoded version of an audio signal for a three-dimensional (3D) scene and a first set of metadata that has 1) a position of a 3D sub-scene within the scene and 2) a position of a sound source associated with the audio signal within the sub-scene; determining a position of a listener; spatially rendering the ...