ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,031, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Audio rendering with spatial metadata interpolation and source position information" was invented by Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland), Juha Vilkamo (Helsinki), Archontis Politis (Tampere, Finland), Antti Eronen (Tampere, Finland) and Leo McCormack (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain two or more audio signal sets, wherein each audio signal set is associated with a position; obtain at least one parameter value for at least two of the audio signal sets; obtain the positions associated wi...