ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,762, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Image and audio apparatus and method" was invented by Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland), Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland) and Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Siuro, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including circuitry configured for causing audio processing to a spatial audio-visual representation of an image and sound apparatus, the spatial audio-visual representation being live or reproduced from recording; and modifying the audio processing applied to an audio-visually manipulated spatial section of the spatial audio-visu...