ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,102, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Separating spatial audio objects" was invented by Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland) and Anssi Sakari Ramo (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is inter alia disclosed an apparatus for spatial audio encoding configured to: determine an audio object for separation (306) from a plurality of audio objects of an audio frame (1281); separate the audio object for separation (308) from the plurality of audio objects to provide a separated audio object (126) and at least one remaining audio object (124); encode the separated audio object wit...