US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 14 for "Surround sound to immersive audio upmixing based on video scene analysis" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,799, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Surround sound to immersive audio upmixing based on video scene analysis" was invented by Allan Devantier (Newhall, Calif.), Sunil Bharitkar (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.), Seongnam Oh (Irvine, Calif.) and Carlos Tejeda Ocampo (Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method of audio upmixing comprising performing video scene analysis by segmenting visual objects from video frames of a video, and performing audio analysis by extracting audio signals from an audio corresponding to the video. The method fur...