ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,576, issued on May 20, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).
"Re-creating acoustic scene from spatial locations of sound sources" was invented by Jelle van Mourik (Barcelona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic apparatus includes microphones to sense sounds in real-world environment and generate acoustic signals; and processor(s) configured to obtain 3D model of real-world environment; receive acoustic signals collected by microphones; process acoustic signals based on positions and orientations of microphones to estimate sound direction from which sound(s) corresponding to acoustic signals is incident upon m...