Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Corporation

Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

Provenance Asset Group LLC

Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a R.l.

Fischerwerke Gmbh & Co. Kg

Nokia Technology Oy

Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi

Antti Johannes Eronen

Jussi Artturi Leppänen

Miikka Tapani Vilermo

Lasse Juhani Laaksonen

Jussi Leppanen

Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate

Juha Henrik Arrasvuori

Mikko Tapio Tammi

Jukka Holm

Francesco Cricri

Tapani Pihlajakuja

Mikko-Ville Laitinen

Mikko Olavi Heikkinen

Anssi Sakari Rämö

Toni Mäkinen

Kimmo Tapio Roimela

Ville-Veikko Mattila

Veli-Matti Kolmonen

Jussi Leppänen

Koray Ozcan

Marja Salmimaa

Francesco Cricrì

Pasi Saari

Kari Juhani Jarvinen

Erika Reponen

Toni Makinen

Ari-Pekka Liljeroos

Ranjeeth Ravindra Shetty

Kongqiao Wang

Sailesh Kumar Sathish

Igor D Curcio

David Bitauld

Toni Jarvenpaa

Anssi Ramo

Matti Sakari Hamalainen

Hongwei Li

Enrico Henrik Rantala

Guido Grassel

Daniel Vaquero

Hannu Juhani Pulakka

Peter Eskolin

Marion Boberg

Junsheng Fu

Muninder Veldandi

Durgaprasad Shamain

Troels Rønnow

Toni Johan Järvenpää

Anssi Rämö

Joonas Nikunen

Basavaraja Shanthappa Vandrotti

Mikko Roininen

Mattila Ville-Veikko

Jussi Leppánen

Matthew Coyle-Gilchrist

Matthew Coyle-gilchrist

Jukka Antero Holm

Troels F Roennow

Mikko-Ville Ilari Laitinen

Milkka Tapani Vilermo

Examples of the disclosure relate to sharing a device between two or more authenticated users. In examples of the disclosure an apparatus is configured to enable a first user to access one or more applications of a device. The apparatus can then enable authenticating a second user and enable the second user to access one or more functions of at least one application. The apparatus can also detect one or more peripheral devices associated with the second user and configure the apparatus to provide outputs to and/or receive inputs from the one or more peripheral devices associated with the second user. The outputs and/or inputs relate to the one or more functions to which access has been enabled for the second user.

Device sharing

An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: providing a stereo or spatial audio signal produced using individual signals from respective microphones of a user device, the stereo or spatial audio signal representing an audio scene; detecting unwanted noise in at least one of the individual signals; responsive to detecting the unwanted noise, modifying the stereo or spatial audio signal based on a determined level of spatial interest in the audio scene meeting a predetermined condition; and providing the modified audio signal for output via one or more speakers.

Selective modification of stereo or spatial audio

An apparatus and method for image processing is disclosed. The method may include receiving an image from a camera sensor, receiving selection of one or more target objects appearing in the image and tracking the one or more target objects over a plurality of subsequently-received images. For the subsequently-received images in turn, the method may include estimating one or more performance metric(s) associated with performing a fill-in processing operation of the one or more tracked target objects and saving the image as an optimised reference image if the respective performance metric(s) indicate an improved performance over that of one or more previously-received images from the time of receiving selection. The method may include performing the fill-in processing operation using one or more of the saved optimised reference images for output to a display screen.

Image processing

An apparatus including circuitry configured for causing audio processing to a spatial audio-visual representation of an image and sound apparatus, the spatial audio-visual representation being live or reproduced from recording; and modifying the audio processing applied to an audio-visually manipulated spatial section of the spatial audio-visual representation in response to information a prior audio-visual manipulation with data processing in the audio-visually manipulated spatial section.

Image and audio apparatus and method

Example embodiments are disclosed relating to virtual content. Example embodiments may involve providing video data for output to a user device, the video data representing a virtual scene comprising one or more virtual objects at respective locations in the virtual scene with which a user of the user device may interact during an interactive session. The interactive session may be paused and a resumption input may be received at a second time, subsequent to the first time, for unpausing the interactive session. Responsive to receiving the resumption input, it may be detected that interaction with a particular virtual object, with which the user has interacted prior to the interactive session being paused, is restricted due to physical properties of a real-world space in which the user is located at the second time. The virtual scene may be modified to permit interaction with the particular virtual object without the detected restriction.

Virtual content

An apparatus including circuitry configured for: wireless charging an energy storage device in the apparatus; using energy from wireless charging and/or the energy storage device to render mediated reality content to a user of the apparatus, wherein the mediated reality content rendered to the user is a virtual scene determined by a virtual point of view within a virtual space, wherein a real point of view of the user, defined by a location and orientation of the user in real space, determines, via a mapping between the virtual space and the real space, the virtual point of view within the virtual space of the virtual user; and in dependence upon a wireless charging parameter, changing the mapping between the real space and the virtual space to enable improvement of the wireless charging parameter.

Mediated reality with wireless charging

Anapparatus, method, computer program for displaying content to a user

An apparatus, method and computer-program is described relating to user control in augmented reality (AR). For example, the method may comprise determining, based on motion of a user, one or more future step locations along a path. The method may also comprise displaying, via an augmented reality display device associated with the user, one or more interactive items. Each of the one or more interactive items may be associated with a respective one of the future step locations and is displayed so as to be perceived at a respective display position which is at or near said associated respective future step location. The method may also comprise detecting a control input associated with a particular interactive item, based at least in part on the user having reached a selection area which is at or near said associated future step location along the path.

User control in augmented reality

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, method and computer program for controlling an earphone device is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for detecting a condition corresponding to an earphone device becoming disengaged from a user's ear and for operating said earphone device in an adjustment mode based on detecting the condition, wherein, in the adjustment mode, an operation associated with a touch sensor on said earphone device is changed.

Control of an earphone device

An apparatus, method and computer program product for: providing spatial audio content for output via at least one loudspeaker, determining a position of at least one audio device operatively connected to the at least one loudspeaker, providing, in response to determining that the position of the at least one audio device corresponds to an audio zone associated with additional spatial audio content, the additional spatial audio content for output via the at least one audio device, receiving an instruction to include the additional spatial audio content in the spatial audio content, and supplementing, in response to receiving the instruction to include the additional spatial content in the spatial audio content, the spatial audio content with the additional spatial audio such that the additional spatial audio content is provided for output independent of the audio zone.

Supplementing content

An apparatus comprising means configured to:

Tactile audio display

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, method and computer program is described for rendering visual content on a display screen. The apparatus comprises a means for rendering visual content on a display screen. The means for rendering is configured to render said visual content at a first rendering position on said display screen. The apparatus further comprises a means for detecting a user gaze direction through an eye correction means towards said first rendering position. The apparatus further comprises a means for receiving data relating to optical properties of said eye correction means at said detected user gaze direction. The apparatus further comprises a means for determining if said optical properties at said detected gaze direction provide a threshold level of suitability for viewing said visual content.

Apparatus and method for rendering visual content on a display screen

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Lempäälä, Finland

Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi