US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on June 23 for "Spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,992, issued on June 23, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding" was invented by Adriana Vasilache (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means configured to: obtain a multichannel audio signal; obtain direction parameter values associated with at least two time-frequency parts of the multichannel audio signal, the direction parameter values associated with at least two time-frequency parts comprising an elevation element and an azimuth element associated with at least two time-frequency parts; and compand encode the obtained d...