ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,092, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Spatial audio processing" was invented by Antti Eronen (Tampere, Finland), Jussi Leppanen (Tampere, Finland), Tapani Pihlajakuja (Vantaa, Finland) and Arto Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to: identify a POI in an audio scene, wherein one or more input audio signals represent the audio scene and at least one further input audio signal represents at least part of the audio scene, wherein the POI comprises a portion of the audio scene to be replaced during rendering using reconstructed audio parameters; g...