ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,519, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Audio apparatus and method therefor" was invented by Jeroen Gerardus Henricus Koppens (Nederweert, Netherlands), Sam Martin Jelfs (Valkenswaard, Netherlands) and Patrick Kechichian (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio apparatus for generating a flutter echo audio signal comprises a receiver (401) arranged to receive room metadata indicative of properties of a room. The room metadata may e.g. indicate dimensions of the room and/or acoustic reflection data for boundaries of the room. An estimator (405) determines a f...