ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,734, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VOICEAGE Corp. (Town of Mount Royal, Canada).
"Method and system for coding metadata in audio streams and for flexible intra-object and inter-object bitrate adaptation" was invented by Vaclav Eksler (Brno, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method code an object-based audio signal comprising audio objects in response to audio streams with associated metadata. In the system and method, an audio stream processor analyses the audio streams. A metadata processor is responsive to information on the audio streams from the analysis by the audio stream processor for coding the m...