US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for decoding a bitstream including encoded Higher Order Ambisonics representations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,948, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Method and apparatus for decoding a bitstream including encoded Higher Order Ambisonics representations" was invented by Sven Kordon (Wunstorf, Germany), Alexander Krueger (Burgdorf, Germany) and Oliver Wuebbolt (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Higher Order Ambisonics represents three-dimensional sound independent of a specific loudspeaker set-up. However, transmission of an HOA representation results in a very high bit rate. Therefore compression with a fixed number of channels is used, in which directional and ambient signa...