US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Dolby International on Sept. 9 for "Binaural signal post-processing" (American, Australian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,929, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Binaural signal post-processing" was invented by Dirk Jeroen Breebaart (Ultimo, Australia), Giulio Cengarle (Barcelona, Spain) and C. Phillip Brown (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of audio processing includes performing spatial analysis on a binaural signal to estimate level differences and phase differences characteristic of a binaural filter of the binaural signal, performing object extraction on the binaural audio signal using the estimated level and phase differences to g...