Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Nokia Telecommunications Oy

Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

Kari Juhani Jarvinen

Lasse Juhani Laaksonen

Antti Johannes Eronen

Miikka Tapani Vilermo

Juha Henrik Arrasvuori

Roope Olavi Jarvinen

Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate

Janne Vainio

Adriana Vasilache

Jussi Leppanen

Jussi Virolainen

Marko Tapani Yliaho

Tapani Pihlajakuja

Pekka Kapanen

Antti Heikki Tapio Sassi

Tero Honkanen

Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi

Jani Rotola-Pukkila

Matti Kajala

Petri J Haavisto

Vesa T Ruoppila

Pasi Sakari Ojala

Jukka Tapio Ranta

Ari Lakaniemi

Jorma Makinen

Ville Mikael Myllyla

Jussi Leppänen

Olli Ali-Yrkko

Kari-Pekka Estola

Jari Haggvist

Yrjo Neuvo

An apparatus configured to: receive a spatial media file comprising a plurality of viewpoints; determine a viewpoint from the plurality of viewpoints for a user consuming the spatial media file; receive an audio stream associated with the viewpoint; receive an augmentation audio stream, wherein the augmentation audio stream is at least partially different from the audio stream; control an audio rendering of the audio stream based, at least partially, on metadata associated with the augmentation audio stream; and provide the audio rendering of the audio stream for mixing with a rendering of the augmentation audio stream.

Multi-viewpoint multi-user audio user experience

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

A method comprising: obtaining a first audio direction parameter value for each sub-band of a sub-frame of a frame of an audio signal; obtaining a second audio direction parameter value for the sub-frame of the frame of the audio signal for one or more audio objects associated with said audio signal; and determining a bit-efficient encoding for each first audio direction parameter value of the sub-frame based on a similarity between the first audio direction parameter value for each sub-band and the second audio direction parameter values for the one or more audio objects.

Spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding

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 configured to obtain audio signals related to one or more audio sources; determine a zoom effect related to the one or more audio sources; and generate audio effect information for the one or more audio sources based, at least partially, on the zoom effect and a zoom factor, wherein the audio effect information is configured to enable control of audio signal processing associated with the obtained audio signals, wherein the zoom factor is associated with, at least, the one or more audio sources.

Associated spatial audio playback

An apparatus including circuitry configured for: obtaining at least one spatial audio signal which can be rendered consistent with a content consumer user movement, the at least one spatial audio signal including at least one audio signal and at least one spatial parameter associated with the at least one audio signal, wherein the at least one audio signal defines an audio scene; rendering the at least one spatial audio signal to be at least partially consistent with a content consumer user movement and obtain at least one first rendered audio signal; obtaining at least one augmentation audio signal; rendering at least a part of the at least one augmentation audio signal to obtain at least one augmentation rendered audio signal; mixing the at least one first rendered audio signal and the at least one augmentation rendered audio signal to generate at least one output audio signal.

An apparatus including circuitry configured for: obtaining media content, wherein the media content includes at least one object data; obtaining priority content information, the priority content information including a priority identification identifying and classifying the at least one object; rendering the at least one object based on the priority content information.

An apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: generate content lock information for a content lock, wherein the content lock information enables control of audio signal processing associated with audio signals related to one or more audio sources based on a position and/or orientation input.

An apparatus including circuitry configured for receiving a spatial media content file including a plurality of viewpoints; circuitry configured for determining a first viewpoint from the plurality of viewpoints for a first user consuming the spatial media content file; circuitry configured for receiving an indication that affects an audio rendering of the first viewpoint for the first user, wherein the indication is associated with one or more actions of at least one second user consuming the spatial media content file; and circuitry configured for controlling the audio rendering of the first viewpoint for the first user in response to the receiving of the indication based on at least one of: a position and/or orientation of the first user, and the one or more actions of the second user.

An apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: generate audio effect information, wherein the audio effect information enables control of audio signal processing associated with audio signals related to one or more audio sources based on at least a zooming factor.

A method is provided including determining a first listening point of a user in an audio space, wherein the audio space comprises at least the first listening point and a second listening point; rendering audio associated with at least one first audio object of the first listening point based on a position and/or orientation of the user relative to the first listening point; in response to receiving an indication of a switch from the first listening point to a second listening point, controlling the rendering of the audio based at least on signaling associated with at least the first audio object, wherein the signaling comprises one or more conditions indicating whether playback of the first audio object is to continue during and/or after the switch to the second listening point.

Controlling audio in multi-viewpoint omnidirectional content

An apparatus comprising an audio detector configured to analyse a first audio signal to determine at least one audio source, wherein the first audio signal is generated from the sound-field in the environment of the apparatus; an audio generator configured to generate at least one further audio source; and a mixer configured to mix the at least one audio source and the at least one further audio source such that the at least one further audio source is associated with the at least one audio source.

Audio scene apparatus

An apparatus comprising: at least one determiner configured to determine at least one characteristic associated with a flexible part of a further apparatus; a signal processor configured to process at least one signal dependent on the at least one characteristic associated with the flexible part of the further apparatus, wherein the signal is at least one of an audio and a video signal; and an user interface generator configured to generate at least one user interface indication dependent on the characteristic associated with a flexible part of the further apparatus.

Flexible spatial audio capture apparatus

An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least one audio signal from a further apparatus; an input configured to receive at least one audio signal associated with the apparatus; an orientation/location determiner configured to determine a relative orientation/location difference between the apparatus and the further apparatus; an audio processor configured to process the at least one audio signal from the further apparatus based on the relative orientation/location difference between the apparatus and the further apparatus; and a combiner configured to combine the at least one audio signal from the further apparatus having been processed and the at least one audio signal associated with the apparatus.

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Kari Juhani Jarvinen