US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Ambisonics capture of sound field for loudspeaker calibration and room personalization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,378, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Ambisonics capture of sound field for loudspeaker calibration and room personalization" was invented by Ismael H. Nawfal (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Ariel A. Massias (San Francisco) and Symeon Delikaris Manias (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Audio stimuli are generated and wirelessly sent to inputs of several speaker drivers simultaneously in a room, thereby producing a sound field around a portable audio capture device in the room. A first order ambisonics, FOA capture, of the sound field is generated using multiple microphone outputs of an integrated mi...