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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2016
Applicant:

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lianwu Chen, Beijing, CN;

Lie Lu, San Francisco, CA (US);

Dirk Jeroen Breebaart, Ultimo, AU;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/008 (2013.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 3/008 (2013.01); G10L 19/008 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to audio signal processing. The audio signal has multiple audio objects. A method of processing an audio signal is disclosed. The method includes obtaining an object position for each of the audio objects; and determining cluster positions for grouping the audio objects into clusters based on the object positions, a plurality of object-to-cluster gains, and a set of metrics. The metrics indicate a quality of the cluster positions and a quality of the object-to-cluster gains, each of the cluster positions is a centroid of a respective one of the clusters, and one of the object-to-cluster gains defines a ratio of the respective audio object in one of the clusters. The method also includes determining the object-to-cluster gains based on the object positions, the cluster positions and the set of metrics; and generating a cluster signal based on the determined cluster positions and object-to-cluster gains. Corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.


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