US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING on June 17 for "Processing object-based audio signals" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,715, issued on June 17, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Processing object-based audio signals" was invented by Alan J. Seefeldt (Alameda, Calif.), Lie Lu (Dublin, Calif.) and Chen Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processing system and method which calculates, based on spatial metadata of the audio object, a panning coefficient for each of the audio objects in relation to each of a plurality of predefined channel coverage zones. Converts the audio signal into submixes in relation to the predefined channel coverage zones based on the calculated panning coefficients and the audi...