US Patent Issued to DTS on Dec. 16 for "Spatial audio capture and analysis with depth" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,209, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DTS Inc. (Calabasas, Calif.).

"Spatial audio capture and analysis with depth" was invented by Edward Stein (Soquel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spatial audio signals can include audio objects that can be respectively encoded and rendered at each of multiple different depths. In an example, a method for encoding a spatial audio signal can include receiving audio scene information from an audio capture source in an environment, and receiving a depth characteristic of a first object in the environment. The depth characteristic can be determined using information from a depth sensor. A co...