Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Technology Oy

Jussi Artturi Leppänen

Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi

Antti Johannes Eronen

Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate

Miikka Tapani Vilermo

Juha Henrik Arrasvuori

Lasse Juhani Laaksonen

Francesco Cricri

Jukka Holm

Igor Danilo Diego Curcio

Francesco Cricrì

Anssi Sakari Rämö

Veli-Matti Kolmonen

Mikko-Ville Laitinen

Kimmo Tapio Roimela

Tapani Pihlajakuja

Toni Mäkinen

Erika Reponen

Ville-Veikko Mattila

Mikko Olavi Heikkinen

Victor Popa

Junsheng Fu

Ari-Pekka Liljeroos

Pasi Saari

Tuomas Virtanen

Elina Elisabet Helander

Katariina Jutta Mahkonen

Niko Saarnisto

Otto Viljami Harju

Tuomas Oskari Virtanen

An apparatus for enabling audio transition between at least two acoustic environments, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain information of at least a first acoustic environment associated with an audio scene, wherein the audio scene includes the first acoustic environment and a second acoustic environment; obtain a first distance threshold that at least partially defines an audio transition region that enables adaptive rendering between the first and second acoustic environments depending on a listening position within the audio scene; determine the listening position to adjust an environment characteristic of at least one of the first and second acoustic environments; and adjust the environment characteristic of at least one of the first and second acoustic environments depending on the listening position, wherein the environment characteristic is adaptively controlled within the audio scene.

Method and apparatus for audio transition between acoustic environments

An apparatus for generating an immersive audio scene, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain audio scene based sources, the audio scene based sources are associated with one or more positions in an audio scene, wherein each audio scene based source includes at least one spatial parameter and at least one audio signal; determine at least one position associated with at least one of the audio scene based sources; generate at least one audio source based on the determined at least one position, wherein the circuitry is configured to: generate at least one spatial audio parameter; and generate at least one audio source signal; and generate information about a relationship between the generated at least one spatial audio parameter and the at least one audio signals and the generated at least one audio source is selected based on a renderer preference.

Method and apparatus for low complexity low bitrate 6DoF HOA rendering

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 are described comprising: receiving first interaction data at a first user in a multi-user virtual environment, wherein the multi-user virtual environment comprises a plurality of users including the first user; receiving metadata relating to the first interaction data at the first user; and rendering a first object to the first user in accordance with the first interaction data and the metadata, wherein the metadata includes instructions for selectively modifying one or more of the rendering of the first object and an interaction of the first user with the virtual environment.

Interaction in a multi-user environment

An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising capturing spatial audio data during an image capturing process, determining an orientation of an image capturing device during the spatial audio data capture, generating an audio focus signal from said captured spatial audio data (wherein said audio focus signal is focused in an image capturing direction of said image capturing device), generating modified spatial audio data (e.g. by modifying the captured spatial audio data to compensate for changes in orientation during the spatial audio data capture), and generating an audio output signal from a combination of the audio focus signal and the modified spatial audio data.

Generating audio output signals

A method, apparatus and computer program is described comprising: generating or obtaining at least one augmented reality image for presentation to a user, the augmented reality images comprising one or more virtual objects, displays or devices of an augmented reality system; attenuating real-world audio of the augmented reality system; and controlling the provision of audio to the user in at least one audio focus or beamform direction relating to at least one selected real-world object of the augmented reality system.

Augmented reality system

An apparatus is disclosed comprising means for providing first positional data indicative of a first user position in a virtual space which comprises a plurality of audio objects. The means may also be for receiving, based at least partially on the first positional data, data indicative of a first allocation of the audio objects into a prioritized order or into one of a plurality of prioritized groups in which each group has a respective priority order, and receiving audio data associated with at least some of the audio objects. The means may also be for rendering the received audio data for at least some of the audio objects associated with the received audio data, based on the first allocation data, in which audio objects with a higher priority or in a higher priority group are rendered with priority over audio objects allocated with a lower priority or in a lower priority group.

Rendering of audio data for a virtual place

An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise a means comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, to receive multimedia data representing a scene, the multimedia data comprising at least audio data representing an audio component of the scene. Another operation may comprise determining a location of unwanted sound in the scene. Another operation may comprise performing first audio processing to remove at least part of the unwanted sound from the determined location. Another operation may comprise performing second audio processing to add artificial sound associated to the unwanted sound at the determined location.

Audio processing

An apparatus, method and computer program product for receiving captured spatial audio information comprising at least one audio signal and at least one audio parameter for controlling the at least one audio signal, receiving an instruction to set an audio parameter to a first parameter value, setting, in response to determining that the first parameter value fulfils at least one criterion, the audio parameter to a second parameter value and changing the audio parameter from the second parameter value to the first parameter value.

Setting a parameter value

A head-mounted audio output apparatus comprising:

Audio output using multiple different transducers

A method comprising: rendering, in a first state, any portion of content for rendering that is not defined as restricted content and rendering, in a second state, different to the first state, any portion of the content for rendering that is defined as restricted content; and using a combination of a user perception direction and an observation field of perception to define restricted content.

Rendering content

Multi-participant extended reality

An apparatus configured to: receive comment information from a first device associated with audio-visual content for presentation at a second device and a comment time indicative of a time during the audio-visual content; receive timing information from the second device indicative of a time during the audio-visual content that is currently being presented; determine a relevant-comment time; and wherein if the time during the audio-visual content that is currently being presented at the second device is greater than the relevant-comment time, display the comment with the audio-visual content presented at the second device at a delayed time comprising: a) a time during the audio-visual content at which there is a reoccurrence of a first event that occurred in the audio-visual content at the comment time; or b) a time during the audio-visual content at which there is a second event, different to but similar to the first event.

Apparatus and associated methods for presentation of comments

This specification describes an apparatus, method and computer program for communicating with a plurality of remote devices in a conference session, outputting, on a display, a user interface comprising a plurality of display portions respectively associated with the plurality of remote devices, and receiving user selection of one or more of the remote devices. Based on the received user selection, the apparatus may cause display of a display portion associated with the one or more selected remote devices on a linked user device which is linked to the apparatus, and enable one or more communications actions for use with the one or more selected remote devices.

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Tampere, Finland

Jussi Artturi Leppänen