US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Dec. 9 for "Saliency-based mixed-order ambisonics encoding of multiple sound sources for immersive spatial audio" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,214, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Saliency-based mixed-order ambisonics encoding of multiple sound sources for immersive spatial audio" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.), Tianyu Xu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jennifer Irturk (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described techniques enable the use of ambisonics encoding/decoding for spatially accurate sound reproduction that is low-latency and that conserves computational and battery resources. Different sounds sources may be encoded using different ambisonics encoding orders, with higher order encoding being used to...