ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,506, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).
"Method and system for handling local transitions between listening positions in a virtual reality environment" was invented by Leon Terentiv (Erlangen, Germany), Christof Fersch (Neumarkt, Germany) and Daniel Fischer (Fuerth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (910) for rendering an audio signal in a virtual reality rendering environment (180) is described. The method (910) comprises rendering (911) an origin audio signal of an audio source (311, 312, 313) from an origin source position on an origin sphere (114) around an origin listening position ...