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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2014
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby International Ab, Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL;
Glenn N. Dickins, Como, AU;
Xuejing Sun, Beijing, CN;
Yen-Liang Shue, Kensington, AU;
Heiko Purnhagen, Sundyberg, SE;
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby International AB, Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL;
Abstract
A method, an apparatus, logic (e.g., executable instructions encoded in a non-transitory computer-readable medium to carry out a method), and a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured with such instructions. The method is to generate and spatially render spatial comfort noise at a receiving endpoint of a conference system, such that the comfort noise has target spectral characteristics typical of comfort noise, and at least one spatial property that at least substantially matches at least one target spatial property. On version includes receiving one or more or more audio signals from other endpoints, combining the received audio signals with the spatial comfort noise signals, and rendering the combination of the received audio signals and the spatial comfort noise signals to a set of output signals for loudspeakers, such that the spatial comfort noise signals are continually in the output signal sin addition to output from the received audio signals.