US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on May 19 for "Clustering audio objects" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,649, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Clustering audio objects" was invented by Ziyu Yang (Beijing) and Lie Lu (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for clustering audio objects may involve identifying a plurality of audio objects, wherein each audio object of the plurality of audio objects is associated with respective metadata that indicates respective spatial position information and respective rendering metadata. The method may involve assigning audio objects of the plurality of audio objects to categories of rendering metadata of a plurality of categories of ...