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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2016
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xuejing Sun, Beijing, CN;
Richard J. Cartwright, Killara, AU;
Michael P. Hollier, San Carlos, CA (US);
Michael Eckert, Ashfield, AU;
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for processing audio data, the method comprising: receiving audio data corresponding to a plurality of instances of audio, including at least one of: (a) audio data from multiple endpoints, recorded separately or (b) audio data from a single endpoint corresponding to multiple talkers and including spatial information for each of the multiple talkers; rendering the audio data in a virtual acoustic space such that each of the instances of audio has a respective different virtual position in the virtual acoustic space; and scheduling the instances of audio to be played back with a playback overlap between at least two of the instances of audio, wherein the scheduling is performed, at least in part, according to a set of perceptually-motivated rules.