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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2020
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Oliver Hume, London, GB;
Fabio Cappello, London, GB;
Marina Villanueva-Barreiro, Acoruna, ES;
Michael Lee Jones, London, GB;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system for determining prioritisation values for two or more sounds within an audio clip includes: a feature extraction unit operable to extract characteristic features from the two or more sounds, a feature combination unit operable to generate a combined mix comprising extracted features from the two or more sounds, an audio assessment unit operable to identify the contribution of one or more of the features to the combined mix, a feature classification unit operable to assign a saliency score to each of the features in the combined mix, and an audio prioritisation unit operable to determine relative priority values for the two or more sounds in dependence upon the assigned saliency scores for each of one or more features of the sounds.