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Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Sven Kordon, Wunstorf, DE;

Alexander Krueger, Burgdorf, DE;

Oliver Wuebbolt, Hannover, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/00 (2006.01); G10L 19/20 (2013.01); G10L 19/008 (2013.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/20 (2013.01); G10L 19/008 (2013.01); H04S 3/008 (2013.01); H04S 2420/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

Higher Order Ambisonics represents three-dimensional sound independent of a specific loudspeaker set-up. However, transmission of an HOA representation results in a very high bit rate. Therefore compression with a fixed number of channels is used, in which directional and ambient signal components are processed differently. For coding, portions of the original HOA representation are predicted from the directional signal components. This prediction provides side information which is required for a corresponding decoding. By using some additional specific purpose bits, a known side information coding processing is improved in that the required number of bits for coding that side information is reduced on average.


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