ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,090, issued on April 15, was assigned to Nokia Technologies OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Privacy protection in spatial audio capture" was invented by Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland), Antti Johannes Eronen (Tampere, Finland), Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland) and Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving spatial audio capture requirement(s) of one or more user devices; determining position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; generating one or more privacy masks at least partly based on the spatial audio c...