ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,271, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Spatial modeler" was invented by David Thall (West Hollywood, Calif.), Bharathidasan Venkatesan (Fremont, Calif.), Andrew J. Klinzing (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Pedro M. De Sa Carvalho Corvo (West Hollywood, Calif.), Thomas G. Parker (San Francisco) and Edward L. Stein (Soquel, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include selecting a subset of sound sources from a plurality of sound sources in a scene, based on audibility of each of the plurality of sound sources. One or more clusters of sound sources are generated with the subset of sound sources. Spat...