US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for screen related adaptation of a higher-order ambisonics audio signal" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,059, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Method and apparatus for screen related adaptation of a higher-order ambisonics audio signal" was invented by Peter Jax (Hannover, Germany), Johannes Boehm (Gottingen, Germany) and William G. Redmann (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating loudspeaker signals associated with a target screen size is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bit stream containing encoded higher order ambisonics signals, the encoded higher order ambisonics signals describing a sound field associated with a production screen size. The ...