US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on May 13 for "Binaural dialogue enhancement" (Australian, Swedish, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,082, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Binaural dialogue enhancement" was invented by Leif Jonas Samuelsson (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Dirk Jeroen Breebaart (Ultimo, Australia), David Matthew Cooper (Carlton, Australia) and Jeroen Koppens (Nederweert, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for dialogue enhancing audio content, comprising providing a first audio signal presentation of the audio components, providing a second audio signal presentation, receiving a set of dialogue estimation parameters configured to enable estimation of dialo...