US Patent Issued to Apple on April 14 for "Method and system for spatial audio processing using multiple orders of ambisonics" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,150, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for spatial audio processing using multiple orders of ambisonics" was invented by Symeon Delikaris Manias (Playa Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes receiving a higher-order ambisonics (HOA) representation of a sound field that includes a first plurality of audio signals, separating a second plurality of audio signals from the first plurality of audio signals that are associated with a first-order ambisonics (FOA) representation of the sound field, determining a plurality of adaptive filters based on at least s...