ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,621, issued on May 5, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).
"Adaptive panner of audio objects" was invented by Jun Wang (Beijing), Giulio Cengarle (Barcelona, Spain), Juan Felix Torres (Darlinghurst, Australia) and Daniel Arteaga (Barcelona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio object including audio content and object metadata is received. The object metadata indicates an object spatial position of the audio object to be rendered by audio speakers in a playback environment. Based on the object spatial position and source spatial positions of the audio speakers,...