US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 8 for "Combining spatial audio streams" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,592, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Combining spatial audio streams" was invented by Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland), Adriana Vasilache (Tampere, Finland), Tapani Pihlajakuja (Kellokoski, Finland), Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, 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 determining an audio scene separation metric between an input audio signal and a further input audio signal. and using the audio scene separation metric for quantizing of at least one spatial aud...