US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on June 17 for "Layered coding and data structure for compressed higher-order Ambisonics sound or sound field representations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,085, issued on June 17, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Layered coding and data structure for compressed higher-order Ambisonics sound or sound field representations" was invented by Sven Kordon (Wunstorf, Germany) and Alexander Krueger (Burgdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document relates to a method of layered encoding of a frame of a compressed higher-order Ambisonics, HOA, representation of a sound or sound field. The compressed HOA representation comprises a plurality of transport signals. The method comprises assigning the plurality of transport signals to a plurality of hierarchical l...