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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2020
Applicant:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Franck Giron, Stuttgart, DE;
Michael Enenkl, Stuttgart, DE;
Assignee:
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/303 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04S 2400/01 (2013.01); H04S 2400/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure pertains to an apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: determine a loudspeaker dependent spread factor for at least one individual loudspeaker of a loudspeaker arrangement, wherein the loudspeaker dependent spread factor depends on a specification of the at least one individual loudspeaker; and 5 control the outputs of the loudspeakers of the loudspeaker arrangement based on the loudspeaker dependent spread factor for the at least one individual loudspeaker to generate at least one virtual sound source.