US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on July 1 for "Spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,442, issued on July 1, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding" was invented by Adriana Vasilache (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means configured to obtain direction parameter values (108) associated with at least two time-frequency parts (202) of at least one audio signal (102); and encode the obtained direction parameter values based on a codebook (206), wherein the codebook comprises two or more quantization levels arranged such that a first quantization level comprises a first set of quantization values, and a second...