US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Audio scene description and control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,379, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Audio scene description and control" was invented by Frank Baumgarte (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Moo Young Kim (San Diego), Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.) and Sang Uk Ryu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data structure stored in memory includes a scene description that defines a hierarchy of scene components that are in digital audio content received from a producer. The hierarchy has several stages including a fourth stage in which a scene composition is defined that contains all scene components needed to render the digital audio content in a single presentat...