ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,098, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).
"Methods, apparatus, and systems for detection and extraction of spatially-identifiable subband audio sources" was invented by Aaron Steven Master (San Francisco), Lie Lu (Dublin, Calif.) and Harald Mundt (Furth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method comprises: transforming one or more frames of a two-channel time domain audio signal into a time-frequency domain representation including a plurality of time-frequency tiles, wherein the frequency domain of the time-frequency domain ...