US Patent Issued to GoPro on Dec. 2 for "Direction of audio arrival from Ambisonics channels using azimuth and elevation segments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,040, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Direction of audio arrival from Ambisonics channels using azimuth and elevation segments" was invented by Hakim Mesiwala (Cupertino, Calif.), Eric Steven Penrod (Brentwood, Calif.), Erich Tisch (San Francisco), Mark Hardin (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Timothy Dick (San Francisco) and William Edward MacDonald (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for determining a direction of audio arrival from Ambisonics channels using azimuth and elevation segments is described herein. A method includes generating multiple blocks of samples from Ambisoni...