US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 11 for "Spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,502, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding" was invented by Tapani Pihlajakuja (Kellokoski, Finland) and Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means configured to: obtain at least one audio signal; obtain, for the at least one audio signal, spatial audio signal parameter values, the spatial audio signal parameters values distributed within a time-frequency domain (106); determine a merge metric to control a merging of the spatial audio signal parameter values over the time-frequency doma...