ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,070, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Video-informed spatial audio expansion" was invented by Marcin Gorzel (Dublin) and Balineedu Adsumilli (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First video frames that include a visual object and a non-spatialized first audio segment that includes an auditory event are received. If that second video frames do not include the visual object and a first time difference between the first video frames and the second video frames does not exceed a certain time, a motion vector of the visual object is used to assign a spatial location to the auditory eve...