ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,800, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Spatial audio representation and rendering" was invented by Juha Vilkamo (Helsinki) 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 a spatial audio signal including at least one audio signal and spatial metadata associated with the at least one audio signal; obtain at least one data set related to binaural rendering; obtain at least one pre-defined data set related to binaural rendering; and generate a binaural audio signal based on a combination of at least part of the at l...