US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on April 7 for "Rendering of occluded audio elements" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,440, issued on April 7, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Rendering of occluded audio elements" was invented by Tommy Falk (Spanga, Sweden) and Werner De Bruijn (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rendering an audio element that is at least partially occluded, where the audio element is represented using a set of two or more virtual loudspeakers (e.g., SpL, SpC, SpR), the set comprising a first virtual loudspeaker (e.g., SpR). In one embodiment, the method includes modifying a first virtual loudspeaker signal for the first virtual loudspeaker (e.g., SpR), thereby producing a first...