US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Sept. 15 for "Spatial representation learning" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,279, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Spatial representation learning" was invented by Paul Holmberg (North Ryde, Australia), Hadis Nosrati (Queens Park, Australia) and Richard J. Cartwright (Killara, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed methods involve: receiving multi-channel audio data including unlabeled multi-channel audio data; extracting audio feature data from the unlabeled multi-channel audio data; applying a spatial masking process to a portion of the audio feature data; applying a contextual encoding process to the masked audio feature data, to pro...