US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Jan. 20 for "Methods and devices for encoding and/or decoding spatial background noise within a multi-channel input signal" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,072, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Methods and devices for encoding and/or decoding spatial background noise within a multi-channel input signal" was invented by Michael Eckert (New South Wales, Australia) and Rishabh Tyagi (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document describes a method (600) for encoding a multi-channel input signal (101) which comprises N different channels. The method (600) comprises, for a current frame of a sequence of frames, determining (601) whether the current frame is an active frame or an inactive frame using a sig...