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Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corproation

Sripal S Mehta

Thomas Ziegler

Alan Jeffrey Seefeldt

Stewart Murrie

Prinyar Saungsomboon

Jeffrey Charles Riedmiller

Joshua Brandon Lando

Giles Baker

Peter Michaelian

Brett Graham Crockett

C Phillip Brown

Grayson H Byrd

Cody Michael Proksa

John Carson Stewart

Brian Edward Renz

Drew Alexander Walcott

Nicolas R Tsingos

Vincent Voron

Freddie Sanchez

Brad Basler

Farhad Farahani

Robert Andrew France

Spencer Hooks

Andrew Jonathan Dowell

Michael David Dwyer

Christophe Chabanne

Dirk Jeroen Breebaart

S Spencer Hooks

David Matthew Fischer

Dossym Nurmukhanov

Timothy James Eggerding

Matthew Conrad Fellers

Vince Voron

Sergio Martinez

Ethan A Grossman

Brad Thayer

Stanley G Cossette

Dean Bullock

John Neary

Phillip C Brown

Spencer S Hooks

Mathew Fellers

Methods for generating an object based audio program, renderable in a personalizable manner, and including a bed of speaker channels renderable in the absence of selection of other program content (e.g., to provide a default full range audio experience). Other embodiments include steps of delivering, decoding, and/or rendering such a program. Rendering of content of the bed, or of a selected mix of other content of the program, may provide an immersive experience. The program may include multiple object channels (e.g., object channels indicative of user-selectable and user-configurable objects), the bed of speaker channels, and other speaker channels. Another aspect is an audio processing unit (e.g., encoder or decoder) configured to perform, or which includes a buffer memory which stores at least one frame (or other segment) of an object based audio program (or bitstream thereof) generated in accordance with, any embodiment of the method.

Methods and systems for rendering object based audio

Methods for generating an object based audio program which is renderable in a personalizable manner, e.g., to provide an immersive, perception of audio content of the program. Other embodiments include steps of delivering (e.g., broadcasting), decoding, and/or rendering such a program. Rendering of audio objects indicated by the program may provide an immersive experience. The audio content of the program may be indicative of multiple object channels (e.g., object channels indicative of user-selectable and user-configurable objects, and typically also a default set of objects which will be rendered in the absence of a selection by a user) and a bed of speaker channels. Another aspect is an audio processing unit (e.g., encoder or decoder) configured to perform, or which includes a buffer memory which stores at least one frame (or other segment) of an object based audio program (or bitstream thereof) generated in accordance with, any embodiment of the method.

Methods and systems for interactive rendering of object based audio

Methods and audio processing units for generating an object based audio program including conditional rendering metadata corresponding to at least one object channel of the program, where the conditional rendering metadata is indicative of at least one rendering constraint, based on playback speaker array configuration, which applies to each corresponding object channel, and methods for rendering audio content determined by such a program, including by rendering content of at least one audio channel of the program in a manner compliant with each applicable rendering constraint in response to at least some of the conditional rendering metadata. Rendering of a selected mix of content of the program may provide an immersive experience.

Methods and systems for generating and rendering object based audio with conditional rendering metadata

Speaker

Embodiments are described for rendering spatial audio content through a system that is configured to reflect audio off of one or more surfaces of a listening environment. The system includes an array of audio drivers distributed around a room, wherein at least one driver of the array of drivers is configured to project sound waves toward one or more surfaces of the listening environment for reflection to a listening area within the listening environment and a renderer configured to receive and process audio streams and one or more metadata sets that are associated with each of the audio streams and that specify a playback location in the listening environment.

Speaker for reflecting sound off viewing screen or display surface

Embodiments are described for a system of rendering object-based audio content through a system that includes individually addressable drivers, including at least one driver that is configured to project sound waves toward one or more surfaces within a listening environment for reflection to a listening area within the listening environment; a renderer configured to receive and process audio streams and one or more metadata sets associated with each of the audio streams and specifying a playback location of a respective audio stream; and a playback system coupled to the renderer and configured to render the audio streams to a plurality of audio feeds corresponding to the array of audio drivers in accordance with the one or more metadata sets.

System for rendering and playback of object based audio in various listening environments

A system and method of providing a signal to wireless speakers. An audio stick connects to a source device and provides the audio signal to the wireless speakers. The audio stick combines the functionality of two separate devices: an audio receiver device and a transmitter device for the wireless speakers.

Audio stick for controlling wireless speakers

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Sripal S Mehta