ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,297, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Sound field related rendering" was invented by Juha Vilkamo (Helsinki), Koray Ozcan (Hampshire, Great Britain) and Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for spatial audio reproduction including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one focus parameter configured to define a focus shape; process a spatial audio signal that represents an audio scene to generate a processed spatial audio signal that represents a modified audio scene, so as to control relative emphasis in, at least in part, a portion of the spati...