US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on May 20 for "Apparatus, method and computer program for enabling audio zooming" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,558, issued on May 20, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method and computer program for enabling audio zooming" was invented by Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Siuro, Finland), Hannu Juhani Pulakka (Pirkkala, Finland), Roope Olavi Jarvinen (Lempaala, Finland) and Jorma Juhani Makinen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling audio zooming. The apparatus can include circuitry configured for determining, for an audio signal, if sound energy in at least one first direction is different to sound energy in at least o...