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Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur F&#xd6;rderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

Oliver Thiergart

Guillaume Fuchs

Fabian Küch

Alexandre Bouthéon

Stefan Bayer

Jürgen Herre

Stefan Döhla

Sascha Disch

Srikanth Korse

Andrea Eichenseer

An apparatus for generating a sound field description using an input signal having a mono-signal or a multi-channel signal includes: an input signal analyzer for analyzing the input signal to derive direction data and diffuseness data; a low-order components generator for generating a low-order sound field description from the input signal up to a predetermined order and mode; a mid-order components generator for generating a mid-order sound field description above the predetermined order or at the predetermined order and above the predetermined mode and below or at a first truncation order using a synthesis of at least one direct portion and of at least one diffuse portion using the direction data and the diffuseness data; and a high-order components generator for generating a high-order sound field description having a component above the first truncation order using a synthesis of at least one direct portion.

Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using low-order, mid-order and high-order components generators

There are disclosed several examples of encoding and decoding technique. In particular, an audio synthesizer for generating a synthesis signal from a downmix signal, includes:

Parameter encoding and decoding

An apparatus for encoding a spatial audio representation representing an audio scene to obtain an encoded audio signal includes: a transport representation generator for generating a transport representation from the spatial audio representation, and for generating transport metadata related to the generation of the transport representation or indicating one or more directional properties of the transport representation; and an output interface for generating the encoded audio signal, the encoded audio signal including information on the transport representation, and information on the transport metadata.

Apparatus and method for encoding a spatial audio representation or apparatus and method for decoding an encoded audio signal using transport metadata and related computer programs

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Erlangen, Germany

Oliver Thiergart