MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617064549 A) filed by Samsung Electronics Co. , Ltd. on May 22, 2026, for Audio Codec Bitrate Using Directional Loudness.
Inventors include Bharitkar, Sunil; and Hirvonen, Toni.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for encoding audio includes accessing a window of the audio that includes audio signals. The method further includes determining, for each of the audio signals, a power of an audio signal relative to a reference audio signal; determining, for each of the audio signals and based on the determined relative power of the audio signal, a gain to apply t...