US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Methods, apparatus and systems for encoding and decoding of multi-channel ambisonics audio data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,756, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for encoding and decoding of multi-channel ambisonics audio data" was invented by Oliver Wuebbolt (Hannover, Germany), Peter Jax (Hannover, Germany) and Johannes Boehm (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional audio compression technologies perform a standardized signal transformation, independent of the type of the content. Multi-channel signals are decomposed into their signal components, subsequently quantized and encoded. This is disadvantageous due to lack of knowledge on the characteris...