US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing a higher order ambisonics representation for a sound field" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,791, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing a higher order ambisonics representation for a sound field" was invented by Alexander Krueger (Burgdorf, Germany), Sven Kordon (Wunstorf, Germany) and Johannes Boehm (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention improves HOA sound field representation compression and decompression. A decoder decodes compressed dominant directional signals and compressed residual component signals so as to provide decompressed dominant directional signals and decompressed time domain s...