US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "Method and system for encoding loudness metadata of audio components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,621, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for encoding loudness metadata of audio components" was invented by Frank Baumgarte (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes receiving an audio component associated with an audio scene, the audio component including an audio signal, determining a loudness level of the audio component based on the audio signal, receiving a target loudness level for the audio component, producing a bitstream with the audio component by encoding the audio signal and including metadata that has the l...