US Patent Issued to Apple on June 16 for "Transcoding audio frames and converting metadata frames based on a target encoder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,194, issued on June 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Transcoding audio frames and converting metadata frames based on a target encoder" was invented by Ravi Kiran Chivukula (San Jose, Calif.), Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.) and Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target encoder may receive, from a source decoder, a source bitstream including an audio frame and a metadata frame associated with the audio frame. The target encoder may transcode the audio frame to a new audio frame in a target format associated with the target encoder. The target encoder may convert the metadata fra...