Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Corporation

Provenance Asset Group LLC

Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate

Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi

Antti Johannes Eronen

Igor Danilo Diego Curcio

Lasse Juhani Laaksonen

Jussi Artturi Leppänen

Jussi Leppanen

Emre Baris Aksu

Miikka Tapani Vilermo

Francesco Cricri

Miska Matias Hannuksela

Igor D Curcio

Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar

Yu You

Saba Ahsan

Kari Juhani Jarvinen

Adriana Vasilache

Mikko-Ville Laitinen

Sailesh Kumar Sathish

Ville-Veikko Mattila

Ari Hourunranta

Jussi Leppänen

Peter O Fasogbon

Kashyap Kammachi-Sreedhar

Kostadin Dabov

Lukasz Kondrad

Kari Juhani Järvinen

Lauri Ilola

Junsheng Fu

Henri Toukomaa

Ye-Kui Wang

Mikko Tapio Tammi

Kimmo Tapio Roimela

Anssi Ramo

Matti Sakari Hamalainen

Mikko-ville Laitinen

Francesco Cricrì

Radu Ciprian Bilcu

Dmytro Rusanovskyy

Toni Makinen

Ari-Pekka Liljeroos

Anssi Rämö

Juha Tapani Purho

Varun Singh

Archontis Politis

Joonas Nikunen

Pouria Babahajiani

Pasi P Liimatainen

Jörg Ott

Mikko Roininen

Jegadish Devadoss

Jaakko Valdemar Hyry

Kari Järvinen

Serhan Gul

Pasi Liimatainen

You Yu

Mikko-Ville Ilari Laitinen

Kari Juhani JÄRVINEN

Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling audio content rendering. An example apparatus comprising means for receiving a bitstream which comprises audio content; means for receiving dynamic content independent from the bitstream; means for receiving at least one instruction for the dynamic content from at least one of: the received bitstream or the received dynamic content; and means for rendering audio with a renderer based upon the audio content of the bitstream, the received dynamic content, and the at least one instruction. In an embodiment, the means for receiving the at least one instruction comprises means for determining presence the of at least one instruction for the dynamic content in the bitstream, When the bitstream does not comprise the at least one instruction for the received dynamic content, the apparatus comprising means for rendering audio with a renderer based upon the audio content of the bitstream without adapting the audio based upon the received dynamic content, When the bitstream comprises the at least one instruction for the received dynamic content, the apparatus comprising means for rendering the audio with the renderer based upon the audio content of the bitstream, the received dynamic content, and the at least one instruction. In a further embodiment, the apparatus further comprising means for determining position of audio elements in the audio scene and audio elements in the dynamic content. When the audio elements in the audio scene and the audio elements in the dynamic content are in a same acoustic environment, the apparatus comprising means for rendering audio with the renderer based upon the audio content of the bitstream without adapting the audio based upon the received dynamic content. When the audio elements in the audio scene and the audio elements in the dynamic content are not in the same acoustic environment, the apparatus comprising means for rendering the audio with the renderer based upon both the audio content of the bitstream and the received dynamic content. In an embodiment, the apparatus further comprising means for determining an anchor object in an audio scene; means for determining at least one instruction for dynamic content relative to the anchor object; and means for transmitting the audio scene in a bitstream, where the bitstream comprises the at least one instruction.

Rendering encoded 6DOF audio bitstream and late updates

A method and a network-based media processing source, including: generating a workflow description; generating, for a workflow manager, a container file or a manifest or a bit stream, which container file or manifest or bit stream comprises the workflow description; and including in the workflow description an authentication and authorization descriptor that defines desired authentication methods desired by the network-based media processing source for subsequent authenticating a media source to the workflow manager. The workflow manager performs: receiving from a network-based media processing source a workflow description; and determining, from the container file or a manifest or a bit stream, a workflow description that comprises an authentication and authorization descriptor that indicates desired authentication methods authenticating a media source to the workflow manager.

Method and apparatus for authenticating and authorizing network based media processing

An apparatus for assisting spatial rendering for room acoustics, the apparatus including means configured to: obtain directivity data having an identifier, wherein the directivity data includes data for at least two separate directions; obtain at least one room parameter; determine information associated with the directivity data; determine gain data based on the determined information; determine averaged gain data based on the gain data; and generate a bitstream defining a rendering, the bitstream including the averaged gain data and the at least one room parameter such that at least one audio signal associated with the identifier is configured to be rendered based on the at least one room parameter and the determined averaged gain data.

Adjustment of reverberator based on source directivity

A method comprising obtaining a 360-degree video content from a video source; projecting the 360-degree video content onto a 2D image plane; dividing the projected 360-degree video content into a plurality of regions, wherein the regions are partly overlapping and each region covers a region of the 360-degree video content suitable for a viewport presentation; receiving a request for a viewport orientation of the 360-degree video content from a client; and providing the client with an viewport presentation of the region corresponding to the requested viewport orientation.

Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for video conferencing

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

There is disclosed an apparatus and a method for spatial computing service session description for volumetric XR conversation. In accordance an embodiment the method comprises receiving volumetric video from a plurality of sources, the volumetric video data comprising color images and depth images representing at least a part of a scene; determining which of the plurality of sources belong to a same group; selecting a group identifier for the group; associating the volumetric video with the group identifier indicative of from which group the volumetric video data is received; associating the volumetric video with a source identifier indicative of from which source of the group the volumetric video data is received; associating the color image of the volumetric video with a color data identifier; and associating the depth image of the volumetric video with a depth data identifier.

Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for spatial computing service session description for volumetric extended reality conversation

The embodiments relate to methods for encoding and decoding, and technical equipment for the same. The method for encoding obtaining two or more representations of volumetric media content, each of the two or more representations of volumetric media content including multiple media component bitstreams; identifying a relationship between the two or more representations; generating a description file containing a media component description for each media component bitstream; group descriptions grouping the media component descriptions for each media component bitstream; grouping information descriptions providing information on the identified relationship between group descriptions representing representations. The description file is provided to a receiver.

Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for streaming volumetric video content

An apparatus may be configured to: receive, from a first user equipment, at least one real-time transport protocol header extension configured to handle at least one protocol data unit, wherein the at least one real-time transport protocol header extension comprises, at least, one or more application controlled bits; determine whether the one or more application controlled bits are valid; and set values for one or more network controlled bits of the at least one real-time transport protocol header extension based, at least partially, on a determination of whether the one or more application controlled bits are valid, wherein the one or more application controlled bits comprise bits that do not overlap with the one or more network controlled bits.

Priority application and network bits for PDU handling

There is provided generating, at a control device of a media communication session between participant devices, a session description for the communication session, the session description including media stream identifiers and at least one element including an arrangement of the media stream identifiers indicating a background media stream and associated one or more overlay media streams, and sending, by the control device, the session description to the participant devices for indicating the participant devices to associate the background media stream with one or more overlay media streams for rendering a scene with at least three degrees of freedom.

Session description for communication session

In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least one method and apparatus to perform assigning, by a network device, a step descriptor to at least one segment split of a workflow comprising at least one data input instance from at least one network node; and sending at least one sub-flow of the workflow based on the at least one segment split towards at least one queued task for communication processing, wherein the communication processing is based at least on the step descriptor assigned to the at least one segment split.

System and signalling of video splitter and merger for parallel network based media processing

An apparatus, method and computer program for controlling an earphone device is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for detecting a condition corresponding to an earphone device becoming disengaged from a user's ear and for operating said earphone device in an adjustment mode based on detecting the condition, wherein, in the adjustment mode, an operation associated with a touch sensor on said earphone device is changed.

Control of an earphone device

Some embodiments relate to a method including obtaining information of available quality features of a sender device for providing omnidirectional visual media content; selecting one or more of the available quality features; and providing an indication of the selected one or more of the available quality features. There is also provided a method including obtaining information of available quality features of a receiver device for processing omnidirectional visual media content; providing an indication of the available quality features; receiving from a sender device indication of available quality features of the sender device among the available quality features of the receiver device; selecting one of the quality features, which are available both in the sender device and in the receiver device; and providing an indication of the selected quality feature.

Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for video encoding and video decoding

An apparatus, method and computer program product for: providing spatial audio content for output via at least one loudspeaker, determining a position of at least one audio device operatively connected to the at least one loudspeaker, providing, in response to determining that the position of the at least one audio device corresponds to an audio zone associated with additional spatial audio content, the additional spatial audio content for output via the at least one audio device, receiving an instruction to include the additional spatial audio content in the spatial audio content, and supplementing, in response to receiving the instruction to include the additional spatial content in the spatial audio content, the spatial audio content with the additional spatial audio such that the additional spatial audio content is provided for output independent of the audio zone.

Supplementing content

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

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