US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories LicensingCorporation, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on July 28 for "Method and apparatus for metadata-based dynamic processing of audio data" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,879, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories LicensingCorporation (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Method and apparatus for metadata-based dynamic processing of audio data" was invented by Christof Fersch (Neumarkt, Germany) and Scott Gregory Norcross (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method of metadata-based dynamic processing of audio data for playback, the method including: receiving, by a decoder, a bitstream including audio data and metadata for dynamic loudness adjustment; decoding, by the decoder, the audio data and the metadata to obtain decoded audio d...