Placing a sound within content
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12124672B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-22

    申请号:US17783089

    申请日:2020-11-12

    摘要: An apparatus including circuitry configured for: displaying content within a viewport; displaying a symbol representing a sound source within the viewport; detecting one or more gestures that place the displayed symbol in the displayed content; disambiguating between a first placement method, performed for the symbol, that locks the sound source to a position that moves with displayed content moving within the viewport and a second placement method performed for the symbol that is different to the first placement method and locks the sound source to a position that does not move with displayed content moving within the viewport, wherein the first placement method includes a disambiguating gesture relative to the viewport, for the symbol, indicating movement of the symbol relative to the viewport that disambiguates the first placement method from the second placement method.

    Spatial audio processing
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11943604B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US17577468

    申请日:2022-01-18

    摘要: According to an example embodiment, a technique for spatial audio processing including: determining at least one spatial parameter based, at least partially, on at least one input audio signal captured with at least one first device, configured to represent at least a portion of an audio scene; identifying a portion of interest of the audio scene based, at least partially, on the at least one spatial parameter; generating at least one first audio signal based, at least partially, on the at least one input audio signal; generating at least one second audio signal based, at least partially, on at least one audio signal captured with at least one second device; and combining, at least partially, the at least one first audio signal and the at least one second audio signal into at least one combined audio signal.

    Use of local link to support transmission of spatial audio in a virtual environment

    公开(公告)号:US11546718B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US17257993

    申请日:2019-06-25

    摘要: A method including enabling a first user having a first user device to communicate with one or more second users having one or more second user devices via a network, wherein each user has a spatial position within a virtual space, such that, for each user within the virtual space, all other users within the virtual space have a relative spatial position; providing spatial audio data from the first user device to the one or more second user devices and receiving spatial audio data at the first user device from the one or more second user devices, such that each user is provided with audio from the other users in the respective relative spatial positions of the other users; and enabling a third user having a third user device to communicate with the first user and the one or more second users via the first user device.

    Spatial audio signal processing
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11122381B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-14

    申请号:US16649433

    申请日:2018-10-01

    IPC分类号: H04S7/00

    摘要: An apparatus for spatial audio signal processing, the apparatus including at least one processor configured to: receive captured audio content, the captured audio content captured within a capture environment with defined geometry; determine audio directions and distances associated with the captured audio content; determine a listening space area geometry; map the audio directions and distances associated with the captured audio content relative to the defined geometry to the listening space area geometry; and synthesize a volumetric audio based on the mapped audio directions and distances to generate an audio content experience within the listening space area geometry.

    Apparatus and method for processing volumetric audio

    公开(公告)号:US11521591B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-06

    申请号:US16768968

    申请日:2018-11-29

    摘要: A method including receiving an audio scene including at least one source captured using at least one near field microphone and at least one far field microphone. The method includes determining at least one room-impulse-response associated with the audio scene based on the at least one near field microphone and the at least one far field microphone, accessing a predetermined scene geometry corresponding to the audio scene, and identifying best match to the predetermined scene geometry in a scene geometry database. The method also includes performing RIR comparison based on the at least one RIR and at least one geometric RIR associated with the best matching geometry and rendering a volumetric audio scene based on a result of the RIR comparison.

    Monitoring
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11429189B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-30

    申请号:US15538739

    申请日:2015-12-21

    摘要: A method including recognizing at least one gesture to define at least one computer-implemented virtual boundary in a monitoring space, wherein the gesture includes a motion along a path and at a location in a monitored scene space wherein there is a correspondence between the monitoring space and the monitored scene space; causing implementation of the at least one virtual boundary in the monitoring space corresponding to the scene space, wherein at least part of the virtual boundary is determined by the path in the monitored scene space and the at least part of the virtual boundary is located in the monitoring space at a corresponding location equivalent to the path location; and processing received data to generate a response event when there is, relative to the at least one virtual boundary, a change in a portion of the monitored scene space.

    Provision of virtual reality content

    公开(公告)号:US10970932B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-06

    申请号:US16019872

    申请日:2018-06-27

    摘要: A method is disclosed, including providing data indicative of dimensions of a real-world space within which a virtual world is to be consumed. The method may also include identifying one or more objects within said real-world space, and determining one or more available areas within the real-world space for rendering three-dimensional virtual content, based at least partly on the dimensions of the real-world space. The method may also include identifying one or more of the objects as being movable, identifying, from a set of three-dimensional virtual content items, one or more candidate items unable to be rendered within the available area(s) and which can be rendered if one or more of the movable objects is moved and providing an indication to a virtual reality user device of the candidate virtual item(s) and of the movable object(s) required to be moved.

    Distributed audio capture and mixing controlling

    公开(公告)号:US10820120B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-27

    申请号:US16464913

    申请日:2017-11-20

    摘要: An apparatus for identifying which sound sources are associated with which microphone audio signals, the apparatus including a processor configured to: determine/receive a position/orientation of at least one sound source relative to a microphone array; receive at least one microphone audio signal, each microphone audio signal received from a microphone; receive an audio-focussed audio signal from the microphone array, wherein the audio-focussed audio signal is directed from the microphone array towards the one of the at least one sound source so as to enhance the audio-focussed audio signal; compare the audio-focussed audio signal against each microphone audio signal to identify a match between one of the at least one microphone audio signal and the audio focussed audio signal; and associate the one of the at least one microphone with the at least one sound source, based on the identified match.