Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Corporation

Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

Provenance Asset Group LLC

Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a R.l.

Nokia Technology Oy

Antti Johannes Eronen

Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi

Jussi Artturi Leppänen

Juha Henrik Arrasvuori

Jussi Leppanen

Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate

Lasse Juhani Laaksonen

Miikka Tapani Vilermo

Jukka Holm

Tapani Pihlajakuja

Francesco Cricri

Mikko-Ville Laitinen

Mikko Olavi Heikkinen

Kari Juhani Jarvinen

Anssi Ramo

Juha Vilkamo

Kari Juhani Järvinen

Jussi Leppänen

Ville-Veikko Mattila

Veli-Matti Kolmonen

Henri Toukomaa

Adriana Vasilache

Kimmo Tapio Roimela

Mikko-ville Laitinen

Timo Kosonen

Kai Havukainen

Roope Olavi Järvinen

Archontis Politis

Miska Matias Hannuksela

Koray Ozcan

Igor Danilo Diego Curcio

Francesco Cricrì

Roope Olavi Jarvinen

Junsheng Fu

Tuomas Virtanen

Mikko Tapio Tammi

Pasi Sakari Ojala

Anssi Sakari Rämö

Igor D Curcio

Yu You

Matti Sakari Hamalainen

Lixin Fan

Radu Ciprian Bilcu

Jarmo Antero Hiipakka

Hannu Korhonen

Markku Kalevi Vehvilainen

Toni Mäkinen

Rajasekaran Andiappan

Peter Eskolin

Marion Boberg

Victor Popa

Jussi Collin

Ari-Pekka Liljeroos

Pauli Laine

Elina Elisabet Helander

Sakari Tapio Alenius

Anssi Rämö

Joonas Nikunen

Markus Montola

Tapio Lokki

Pasi P Liimatainen

Mikko Roininen

Jussi Tapani Parviainen

Jarno Seppänen

Jaakko Valdemar Hyry

Lauros Anton Pajunen

Otto Puomio

Matthew Coyle-gilchrist

Jussi Leppánen

Pasi Liimatainen

Jaakko Hannukainen

Amir Abdi

Henri Puranen

Katariina Jutta Mahkonen

Toni Heittola

Annamaria Mesaros

Mattila Ville-Veikko

Matthew Coyle-Gilchrist

Andrea Hategan

Jayaprasad Bojja

Jukka Antero Holm

Juha Tapio Vilkamo

Mikko-Ville Ilari Laitinen

Kari Juhani JÄRVINEN

Tuomas Oskari Virtanen

Jussi Parviainen

Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling audio content rendering. An example apparatus comprising means for receiving a bitstream which comprises audio content; means for receiving dynamic content independent from the bitstream; means for receiving at least one instruction for the dynamic content from at least one of: the received bitstream or the received dynamic content; and means for rendering audio with a renderer based upon the audio content of the bitstream, the received dynamic content, and the at least one instruction. In an embodiment, the means for receiving the at least one instruction comprises means for determining presence the of at least one instruction for the dynamic content in the bitstream, When the bitstream does not comprise the at least one instruction for the received dynamic content, the apparatus comprising means for rendering audio with a renderer based upon the audio content of the bitstream without adapting the audio based upon the received dynamic content, When the bitstream comprises the at least one instruction for the received dynamic content, the apparatus comprising means for rendering the audio with the renderer based upon the audio content of the bitstream, the received dynamic content, and the at least one instruction. In a further embodiment, the apparatus further comprising means for determining position of audio elements in the audio scene and audio elements in the dynamic content. When the audio elements in the audio scene and the audio elements in the dynamic content are in a same acoustic environment, the apparatus comprising means for rendering audio with the renderer based upon the audio content of the bitstream without adapting the audio based upon the received dynamic content. When the audio elements in the audio scene and the audio elements in the dynamic content are not in the same acoustic environment, the apparatus comprising means for rendering the audio with the renderer based upon both the audio content of the bitstream and the received dynamic content. In an embodiment, the apparatus further comprising means for determining an anchor object in an audio scene; means for determining at least one instruction for dynamic content relative to the anchor object; and means for transmitting the audio scene in a bitstream, where the bitstream comprises the at least one instruction.

Rendering encoded 6DOF audio bitstream and late updates

An apparatus for assisting spatial rendering for room acoustics, the apparatus including means configured to: obtain directivity data having an identifier, wherein the directivity data includes data for at least two separate directions; obtain at least one room parameter; determine information associated with the directivity data; determine gain data based on the determined information; determine averaged gain data based on the gain data; and generate a bitstream defining a rendering, the bitstream including the averaged gain data and the at least one room parameter such that at least one audio signal associated with the identifier is configured to be rendered based on the at least one room parameter and the determined averaged gain data.

Adjustment of reverberator based on source directivity

An apparatus for rendering an audio scene in a physical space including circuitry configured to: determine a listening position within the physical space during rendering; obtain at least one information of a virtual scene to render the virtual scene according to the at least one information; obtain at least one acoustic characteristic of the physical space; prepare the audio scene using the at least one information of the virtual scene and the at least one acoustic characteristic of the physical space, such that the virtual scene acoustics and the physical space acoustics are merged; and render the prepared audio scene according to the listening position.

Method and apparatus for fusion of virtual scene description and listener space description

An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one location and/or orientation associated with a user; obtain, based on the at least one location and/or orientation, one or more audio element, wherein the one or more audio element at least partially forms an audio scene; obtain, based on the at least one location and/or orientation, at least one auxiliary audio element, the at least one auxiliary audio element being at least one audio element or a combination of audio elements, wherein the at least one auxiliary audio element is associated with at least a part of the audio scene and is located at an outside zone of the audio scene; render the obtained audio element and/or at least one auxiliary audio element.

Associated spatial audio playback

An apparatus comprising means configured to: obtain at least one impulse response; obtain at least one reflection filter based on the obtained at least one impulse response, wherein the at least one reflection filter is configured to determine at least one early reflection from an acoustic surface which is not overlapped in time by any other reflection, wherein a duration of the at least one early reflection is shorter than a duration of the obtained at least one impulse response. In addition, an apparatus comprising means configured to: obtain at least one impulse response, wherein the at least one impulse response is configured with a perceivable timbre during rendering; create a timbral modification filter; obtain at least one audio signal; and render at least one output audio signal based on the at least one audio signal, wherein the at least one output signal is based on an application of the timbral modification filter.

Rendering reverberation

An apparatus comprising means for: providing a user interface for enabling a user to select audio content, comprising an arrangement of multiple user-selectable visual elements at positions in the user interface that are indicative of different orientations from a user and have an appearance dependent upon audio content for the respective orientations; and responding to selection of a user-selectable visual element at a position in the user interface indicative of an orientation from the user to select, for processing, audio content for the orientation.

User interface, method, computer program for enabling user-selection of audio content

An apparatus for rendering communication audio signal within an immersive audio scene, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one spatial audio signal for rendering within the immersive audio scene; obtain the communication audio signal and positional information associated with the communication audio signal; obtain a rendering processing parameter associated with the communication audio signal; determine a rendering method based on the rendering processing parameter; determine an insertion point in a rendering processing for the determined rendering method and/or a selection of rendering elements for the determined rendering method based on the rendering processing parameter.

Method and apparatus for communication audio handling in immersive audio scene rendering

An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one audio signal; obtain speaker setup information; obtain, for at least two processing paths, at least one processing path parameter, the at least one processing path parameter including a target direction; process the at least one audio signal to generate a multiple-channel audio signal, generate at least two at least partly mutually incoherent audio signals; determine at least two panning gains; apply each of the at least two panning gains with an associated one of the at least partly mutually incoherent audio signal to generate at least two panning gain applied at least partly mutually incoherent audio signals; and combine the at least two panning gain applied at least partly mutually incoherent audio signals to generate the multiple-channel audio signal; and combine the multiple-channel audio signal from each processing path to generate a combined panning gain applied multiple-channel audio signal.

Spatial audio reproduction by positioning at least part of a sound field

An apparatus for generating a spatialized audio output based on a user position, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain a user position value; obtain at least one input audio signal and associated metadata enabling a rendering of the at least one input audio signal; generate an intermediate format immersive audio signal based on the at least one input audio signal, the metadata, and the user position value; process the intermediate format immersive audio signal to obtain the at least one spatial parameter and the at least one audio signal; and encode the at least one spatial parameter and the at least one audio signal, wherein the at least one spatial parameter and the at least one audio signal are configured to at least in part generate the spatialized audio output.

Method and apparatus for efficient delivery of edge based rendering of 6DoF mpeg-i immersive audio

There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving spatial audio capture requirement(s) of one or more user devices; determining position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; generating one or more privacy masks at least partly based on the spatial audio capture requirement(s) and position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; and transmitting the generated privacy masks to the one or more user devices.

Privacy protection in spatial audio capture

An apparatus configured to: obtain at least one spatial audio signal, the at least one spatial audio signal comprising at least one audio signal and at least one spatial parameter; determine at least one first audio signal based, at least partially, on the at least one spatial audio signal and the at least one of the user position or orientation; obtain at least one augmentation audio signal, wherein the at least one augmentation audio signal has a different audio format than an audio format of the at least one spatial audio signal, wherein the at least one augmentation audio signal provides a different type of media content; determine at least one second audio signal based, at least partially, on at least a part of the at least one augmentation audio signal; and mix the at least one first audio signal and the at least one second audio signal.

Spatial audio augmentation

An apparatus for generating a spatialized audio output based on a listener position, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain two or more audio signal sets; obtain a listener position within an audio environment, wherein the audio environment includes one or more area having one or more inside and outside regions in relation to the respective audio signal set positions; obtain metadata based on a processing of the at least two audio signals; determine, for the listener position within an audio environment outside the inside region, a second listener position; determine modified metadata for the second listener position based on the metadata; determine at least two modified audio signals for the second listener position based on the at least two audio signals; determine spatial metadata for the listener position; and output the at least two modified audio signals and the spatial metadata.

6DOF rendering of microphone-array captured audio for locations outside the microphone-arrays

Examples of the disclosure relate to an apparatus that provides a decimator for audio signals. The apparatus comprises means for: receiving one or more audio input signals and applying a multi-stage decimation process to the one or more audio input signals wherein the multi-stage decimation process comprises at least a first branch and a second branch. The apparatus also comprises means for applying audio signal analysis to the one or more audio input signals. The audio signal analysis extracts at least one audio signal parameter from the one or more audio input signals and is performed on the output of the first branch of the multi-stage decimation process. Use of the second branch of the multi-stage decimation process is dependent upon the outcome of the audio signal analysis.

Decimator for audio signals

An apparatus configured to: receive spatial audio data comprising audio captured from a space extending around a capture device and directional information; receive video imagery captured by a camera, wherein the extent of the space from which the spatial audio data is captured is greater than the field of view of the camera; associate each audio sources determined from the directional information, with, for audio sources within the field of view, a region of the video imagery that corresponds to the direction towards the audio source, and, for audio sources outside the field of view, a part of an out-of-view graphic, the out-of-view graphic indicative of the spatial extent of the space outside the field of view; display the video imagery and the out-of-view graphic; receive user input; and provide for control of at least one audio capture property of a selected one of said one or more audio sources.

Apparatus and associated methods for capture of spatial audio

An apparatus for generating at least one distance estimate to at least one sound source within a sound scene comprising the least one sound source, the apparatus configured to: receive at least two audio signals from a microphone array located within the sound scene; receive at least one further audio signal associated with the at least one sound source; determine at least one portion of the at least two audio signals from a microphone array corresponding to the at least one further audio signal associated with the at least one sound source; determine a distance estimate to the at least one sound source based on the at least one portion of the at least two audio signals from a microphone array corresponding to the at least one further audio signal associated with the at least one sound source.

Sound source distance estimation

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Antti Johannes Eronen