US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Oct. 27 for "Level-of-detail audio codec" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,327, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Level-of-detail audio codec" was invented by Mathieu Jean (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for audio decoding for, in an example, computer games. Audio is delivered in packets. The components of a packet are sorted in the time domain or the frequency domain by magnitude. An elimination threshold can be dynamically established with components below the threshold being eliminated from processing by the receiver, to save processing requirements."

The patent was filed on May 4, 2023, under Applicatio...