ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,482, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Determining virtual audio source positions" was invented by Jeroen Gerardus Henricus Koppens (Nederweert, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic image source model for early reflections in a room is generated by iteratively mirroring (305) rooms around boundaries (e.g. walls) of rooms of the previous iteration. Determination of mirror positions in the image rooms for an audio source in the original room is performed by determining (605, 607) matching reference positions in the two rooms and a relative mapping of directions betw...