ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,238, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"XR rendering for 3D audio content and audio codec" was invented by Ferdinando Olivieri (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Taher Shahbazi Mirzahasanloo (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memory configured to store instructions and also includes one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to obtain audio data corresponding to a sound source and metadata indicative of a direction of the sound source. The one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to obtain direction data indicating a viewing direction associated with...