Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Corporation

Provenance Asset Group LLC

Jussi Leppanen

Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi

Antti Johannes Eronen

Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate

Lasse Juhani Laaksonen

Miikka Tapani Vilermo

Tapani Pihlajakuja

Francesco Cricri

Ville-Veikko Mattila

Adriana Vasilache

Mikko-Ville Laitinen

Kari Juhani Jarvinen

Anssi Ramo

Juha Henrik Arrasvuori

Koray Ozcan

Sailesh Kumar Sathish

Erika Reponen

Veli-Matti Kolmonen

Junsheng Fu

Pasi Saari

Miska Matias Hannuksela

Mikko Tapio Tammi

Kimmo Tapio Roimela

Matti Sakari Hamalainen

Rajasekaran Andiappan

Jussi Collin

Ari-Pekka Liljeroos

Pouria Babahajiani

Jussi Tapani Parviainen

Pasi P Liimatainen

Jaakko Hannukainen

Amir Abdi

Henri Puranen

Mattila Ville-Veikko

Andrea Hategan

Jayaprasad Bojja

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 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

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 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 including: detecting a tracking tag in proximity of a user device (the tracking tag not being pre-associated with the user device); responsive to the detection (and while the tracking tag remains in proximity of the user device): identifying one or more contextual parameters associated with the tracking tag; and responsive to determining that the identified one or more contextual parameters meet a predetermined criterion or criteria, issuing or causing issuance of an alert to the user device and/or to the tracking tag.

Tracking tags

An apparatus including circuitry configured for: in a first-person perspective mediated reality state, rendering mediated reality content as content distributed across a first area of a user's field of view, wherein a point of view of a user determines a point of view within a three-dimensional virtual space and determines at least part of the content distributed across the first area of a user's field of view as a virtual scene; responding to at least one user gesture to enter a spatially consolidated state; and in the spatially consolidated state, rendering the mediated reality content as content distributed across a second area of a user's field of view, wherein the second area is smaller than the first area and the point of view of the user does not determine the content distributed across the second area of a user's field of view.

Mediated reality

An apparatus including circuitry configured for: receiving first audio content associated with a first apparatus; receiving second audio content associated with a second apparatus; simultaneously rendering the first audio content and the second audio content to a user via a head-mounted audio output system configured for spatial audio rendering, wherein the first audio content is rendered as spatial audio content and the second audio content is downmixed to downmixed content and the downmixed content is rendered.

Rendering spatial audio content

An apparatus comprising means including circuitry configured for: applying equalization to a sub-set of a plurality of spatial sound sources, included in a sound scene, to modify the sound scene, wherein spatial sound sources are associated with respective locations in the sound scene, wherein equalization includes frequency-dependent level adaptation, and wherein the sub-set includes multiple spatial sound sources but does not include all of the plurality of spatial sound sources.

Spatial audio

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.

Placing a sound within content

An apparatus, method and computer program product for: receiving spatial audio information captured by a plurality of microphones, receiving a captured audio object from an audio device wirelessly connected to the apparatus, determining an audio audibility value relating to the audio device, determining whether the audio audibility value fulfils at least one criterion, and activating, in response to determining that the audio audibility value fulfils the at least one criterion, inclusion of the audio object captured by the audio device in the spatial audio information captured by the plurality of microphones.

Audio/video capturing using audio from remote device

An apparatus may be configured to: obtain media content, wherein the media content comprises at least one audio content; obtain priority content information, the priority content information comprising a priority identification identifying and classifying the at least one audio content; determine to at least partially reduce rendering of the at least one audio content based, at least partially, on a quota associated with the priority identification of the at least one audio content; and render the at least one audio content based, at least partially, on the priority content information and the determining.

Spatial augmentation

An apparatus, method and computer program are disclosed. The apparatus may include circuitry configured for determining, relative to one or more real audio sources in an environment, a relative position of a virtual object in the environment. The circuitry may be configured for determining, based on the relative position, an occluded region of the environment in which audio signals from the one or more real audio sources would be occluded by the virtual object. The circuitry may be configured for outputting, to a user in the environment, audio data, the outputting circuitry configured to operate in a first mode and in a second mode. The circuitry may be configured for switching the outputting means circuitry between the first mode and the second mode based on a location of the user relative to the occluded region.

Processing of audio data

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.

Spatial audio processing

A method including obtaining a first clean signal and a first processed signal dependent upon audio input at a first microphone; obtaining a second clean signal and a second processed signal dependent upon audio input at a second microphone; using the first clean signal and the second clean signal to enable further processing of at least the first processed signal and the second processed signal.

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