US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on June 2 for "Artificial intelligence (AI)-based generation of ambisonic soundfield" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,045, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Artificial intelligence (AI)-based generation of ambisonic soundfield" was invented by Victoria Dorn (Hayward, Calif.), Brandon Sangston (Foster City, Calif.) and Anders Lykkehoy (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specification of sound producing elements within a graphical scene is provided as input to an artificial intelligence (AI) model. The specification of the sound producing elements includes a description of each sound producing element and a position of each sound producing element within a three-dimensional (3D) space rela...