US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 1 for "Spatial metadata direction harmonization" (Finnish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,759, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Spatial metadata direction harmonization" was invented by Jouni Kristian Paulus (Hersbruck, Germany), Tapani Pihlajakuja (Kellokoski, Finland), Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland) and Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means for: obtaining, with respect to at least two sources within an audio scene, ordered directional metadata parameters associated with the at least two sources and identifying a direction-of-arrival with respect to the at least two sources and arranged in frames arranged as ...