Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Steelseries Aps

Nathan Souviraa-Labastie

Raphaël Greff

Jeroen Gerardus Henricus Koppens

Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn

Damien Kevin Granger

Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister

Christiaan Varekamp

Bart Kroon

Arnoldus Werner Johannes Oomen

Simon Duffy

Hong Cong Tuyen Pham

Vincenzo Giamundo

Paul Allais

Matthieu Campion

Thomas Jacques Roland Serre

A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving an input audio stream from a gaming system, the input audio stream including gaming audio of a video game played by a game player, the input audio stream including a plurality of classes of sounds, providing the input audio stream to a neural network, extracting, by the neural network, sounds of a selected class of sounds of the plurality of classes of sounds, and providing a plurality of output audio streams including providing a first audio stream including the sounds of the selected class of sounds of the input audio stream and a second audio stream including remaining sounds of the input audio stream. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

Extraction and classification of audio events in gaming systems

An audio apparatus and method employ a first renderer circuit, wherein the first renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a first plurality of audio signals for a plurality of loudspeakers; and a second renderer circuit, wherein the second renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a second plurality of audio signals for headphones. The audio apparatus and method perform an analysis of the first audio element to determine an audio property of the first audio element, and select between rendering of at least a first part of the first audio element via the plurality of loudspeakers and rendering of at least the first part of the first audio element via the headphones, based on a result of the analysis.

Audio apparatus and method of audio processing for rendering audio elements of an audio scene

A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. One of the audio streams may trigger an action in the gaming system such as recording a portion of game content for a timer period. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, systems and devices for providing portions of recorded game content in response to an audio trigger

An audio apparatus, e.g. for rendering audio for a virtual/augmented reality application, comprises a receiver () for receiving audio data for an audio scene including a first audio component representing a real-world audio source present in an audio environment of a user. A determinator () determines a first property of a real-world audio component from the real-world audio source and a target processor () determines a target property for a combined audio component being a combination of the real-world audio component received by the user and rendered audio of the first audio component received by the user. An adjuster () determines a render property by modifying a property of the first audio component indicated by the audio data for the first audio component in response to the target property and the first property. A renderer () renders the first audio component in response to the render property.

Audio apparatus and method of operation therefor

A distribution system comprises an audio server () for receiving incoming audio from remote clients () and for transmitting audio derived from the incoming audio to the remote clients (). An audio apparatus comprises an audio a receiver () which receives data comprising: audio data for a plurality of audio components representing audio from a remote client of the plurality of remote clients; and proximity data for at least one of the audio components. The proximity data is indicative of proximity between remote clients. A generator () of the apparatus generates an audio mix from the audio components in response to the proximity data. For example, an audio component indicated to be proximal to a remote client may be excluded from an audio mix for that remote client.

Audio apparatus, audio distribution system and method of operation therefor

A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

Detection and classification of audio events in gaming systems

An audio apparatus and method employ a first renderer circuit, wherein the first renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a first set of audio signals for a set of loudspeakers; and a second renderer circuit, wherein the second renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a second set of audio signals for headphones. The audio apparatus and method select between the first renderer circuit and the second renderer circuit such that the rendering of at least a first part of a first audio element is in response to a first audio rendering property indicator which is received in an audio signal. The first audio rendering property indicator is indicative of an audio format of the first audio element.

A system and method that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a multichannel audio stream; forming a front channel audio stream of the multichannel audio stream, including combining a first subset of audio channels of the multichannel audio stream to form the front channel audio stream; forming a surround channel audio stream of the multichannel audio stream including combining a second subset of audio channels of the multichannel audio stream to form the surround channel audio stream; providing the front channel audio stream to a primary set of speakers positioned in front of a listener and providing the surround channel audio stream to a supplemental speaker positioned behind the listener; and synchronizing the front channel audio stream and the surround channel audio stream. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

Apparatus for providing audio data to multiple audio logical devices

An audio apparatus and method employ a first renderer circuit, wherein the first renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a first set of audio signals for a set of loudspeakers; and a second renderer circuit, wherein the second renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a second set of audio signals for headphones, and select between the first renderer circuit and the second renderer circuit such that the rendering of at least a first part of a first audio element is in response to a first audio rendering property indicator which is received in an audio signal. The first audio rendering property indicator is indicative of whether the first part of the first audio element should be rendered via the loudspeakers, or rendered via the headphones.

An audio apparatus comprises a receiver () receiving data describing an audio scene. The data comprises audio data for a set of audio elements corresponding to audio sources in the scene and further includes metadata comprising at least an audio rendering property indicator for a first audio element of the set of audio elements. A first renderer () renders audio elements by generating a first set of audio signals for a set of loudspeakers and a second renderer () renders audio elements by generating a second set of audio signals for a headphone. Further, a selector () is arranged to select between the first renderer and the second renderer for rendering of at least a first part of the first audio element in response to the first audio rendering property indicator. The approach may for example provide improved virtual reality experiences using loudspeakers and headphone hybrid rendering.

An audio apparatus, e.g. for rendering audio for a virtual/augmented reality application, comprises a receiver () for receiving audio data for an audio scene including a first audio component representing a real-world audio source present in an audio environment of a user. A determinator () determines a first property of a real-world audio component from the real-world audio source and a target processor () determines a target property for a combined audio component being a combination of the real-world audio component received by the user and rendered audio of the first audio component received by the user. An adjuster determines a render property by modifying a property of the first audio component indicated by the audio data for the first audio component in response to the target property and the first property. A renderer () renders the first audio component in response to the render property.

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