US Patent Issued to Dolby International on March 3 for "Method and device for improving dialogue intelligibility during playback of audio data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,430, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Method and device for improving dialogue intelligibility during playback of audio data" was invented by Christian Schindler (Nuremberg, Germany) and Malte Schmidt (Feucht, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method for improving dialogue intelligibility during playback of audio data on a playback device, wherein the audio data comprise dialogue audio data, and at least one of music and effects audio data, the method including the steps of: determining a volume mixing ratio based on a volume value for playback; mixing the dialogue audio ...