US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 30 for "Rendering ambisonics sound sources using fractional orders" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,420, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Rendering ambisonics sound sources using fractional orders" was invented by Brandon Sangston (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ambisonics audio such as may be used for computer simulations such as computer games is improved by improving the emulated spread of a sound source. A demanded spread for a sound object of a computer game is received, and using the spread one or more fractional Ambisonics orders are determined. Weights such as max-rE weights are derived for the fractional Ambisonics order using polynomial interpolation. An ...