ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,842, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Masking zone in metadata for spatial audio rendering" was invented by Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.), Moo Young Kim (San Diego), Francois Becker (Antony, France) and Sang Uk Ryu (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various aspects of the disclosure here enable a content creation side to control how a sound program is spatial audio rendered by a decoding side, so that an audio scene component in a metadata-specified three dimensional acoustic masking zone is not heard while another audio scene component in an un-masked zone of the sound program is heard b...