US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Dec. 9 for "Method and apparatus for decoding stereo loudspeaker signals from a higher-order ambisonics audio signal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,261, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Method and apparatus for decoding stereo loudspeaker signals from a higher-order ambisonics audio signal" was invented by Johannes Boehm (Gottingen, Germany) and Florian Keiler (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decoding of Ambisonics representations for a stereo loudspeaker setup is known for first-order Ambisonics audio signals. But such first-order Ambisonics approaches have either high negative side lobes or poor localisation in the frontal region. The invention deals with the processing for stereo decoders for higher-order Ambisonics HOA."

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