ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,762, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Spatial audio capture" was invented by Mikko Tapio Tammi (Tampere, Finland), Toni Henrik Makinen (Pirkkala, Finland) and Mikko-Ville Laitinen (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 signals from respective two or more microphones; determine, in one or more frequency band of the two or more audio signals, a first sound source direction parameter based on processing of the two or more audio signals, wherein processing of the two or more audio signals is further configured to prov...