ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,281, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).
"Bitrate distribution in immersive voice and audio services" was invented by Rishabh Tyagi (Sydney), Juan Felix Torres (Darlinghurst, Australia) and Stefanie Brown (Lewisham, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for bitrate distribution in immersive voice and audio services. In an embodiment, a method of encoding an IVAS bitstream comprises: receiving an input audio signal; downmixing the input audio signal into one or more downmix channels and spatial metadata; reading a set of one or more bitrates for the downmi...