Sony Corporation

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Comhear Inc.

Other

Jeffrey Mark Claar

Roger Mather Duvall

Richard J Oliver

James E Satloff

Michael Binn

Henry R Goldansky

Paul M Embree

A signal processing system and method for delivering spatialized sound, comprising: a spatial mapping sensor, configured to map an environment, to determine at least a position of at least one listener and at least one object; a signal processor configured to: transform a received audio program according to a spatialization model comprising parameters defining a head-related transfer function, and an acoustic interaction of the object, to form spatialized audio; generate an array of audio transducer signals for an audio transducer array representing the spatialized audio; and a network port configured to communicate physical state information for the at least one listener through digital packet communication network.

System and method for providing a spatialized soundfield

A signal processing system and method for delivering spatialized sound by optimizing sound waveforms from a sparse array of speakers to the ears of a user. The system can provide listening areas within a room or space, to provide spatialization sounds to create a 3D audio effect. In a binaural mode, a binary speaker array provides targeted beams aimed towards a user's ears.

Method for providing a spatialized soundfield

The present invention is a method and apparatus for allocating real-time audio data from a plurality of audio channels in a system having a first processor and a second processor. Memory banks are provided where each memory bank is accessible to the first and second processors. Subsets of the audio data are stored in the memory banks. These subsets correspond to different groups of audio channels.

Memory allocation for real-time audio processing

A method and system that can efficiently broken objects in a real-time constrained network. The method and system provide two main types of interfaces: client object and server object interfaces. Each client object and server object is instantiated from a class derived from a base class. The class libraries may be written in any object-oriented programming language and compiled on to any platform. Thus, the methodology and system are easily ported to other platforms. Additionally, mirrored client and server objects may be generated which allow an object to behave both as a client and as a server.

Network object request broker to automatically connect client and server objects in a distributed environment

In a player/recorder system, a graphical user interface method allows central control of one or more tracks of a plurality of audio processing modules. The plurality of audio processing modules are connected to a computer system having a processor and a display. The method includes the steps of generating a first display portion on the display by the processor, the first display portion including one or more control boxes to control a corresponding one or more tracks of the plurality of audio processing modules and generating a second display portion on the display by the processor, the second display including a central control mechanism for controlling all of the one or more tracks of the audio processing modules.

Method and apparatus for providing a graphical user interface for a player/recorder system

A method and apparatus for storing digitized audio/video tracks. A plurality of lists are created wherein each of the plurality of lists defines a characteristic of the audio/visual data. The plurality of lists are linked according to a data structure such that performing an edit operation on a portion of the audio/visual data results in the edit operation being applied to the plurality of lists.

Storing digitized audio/video tracks

Network object request broker

The present invention is a method and apparatus for re-recording audio events. Scattered audio events on a first track are determined based on a linked list. The scattered audio events are merged into a combined audio event on a second track. The combined audio event is copied on the second track to the first track.

Dense edit re-recording to reduce file fragmentation

The present system edits digitized audio/video data. The system comprises a plurality of stations containing the digitized audio/video data and an editing station located remotely from the plurality of stations and coupled in communication with the plurality of stations via a network. The editing station may also include a graphical interface and accept input via the graphical interface wherein the input specifies edit functions to be performed on the digitized audio/video data residing on the plurality of audio stations.

Editing digitized audio/video data across a network

The present invention discloses a method for organizing audio events recorded on a storage medium to facilitate efficient storage and fast access. The method comprises the steps of: (1) maintaining attributes of the audio events in a list; (2) determining if a subset of the audio events causes a medium fragmentation based on the attributes, the subset including originally sequential audio segments; (3) if the medium fragmentation occurs, copying the subset of said audio events from the storage medium into a buffer memory of a predetermined size; and (4) copying the buffer memory onto the storage medium.

System and method of organizing and defragmenting audio events recorded

A system for sub-allocating space within a logical block in a disk-based file system is described. Each disk block is subdivided into an integer number of smaller sub-blocks. One or more of the sub-blocks may contain data samples. Associated with each block is a variable which indicates which sub-block within the block contains data which have been read from disk to memory. When an application performs a read operation, the variable is first checked to determine whether the data sample to be read is already in memory. If the data sample is in memory, no disk read operation for that data is required.

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Aliso Viejo, CA, United States of America

Jeffrey Mark Claar