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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2021
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan D. Sheaffer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joshua D. Atkins, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Mehrez Souden, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Symeon Delikaris Manias, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sean A. Ramprashad, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/78 (2012.12); G06T 7/246 (2016.12); G10L 21/0272 (2012.12); H04R 3/00 (2005.12); H04R 25/00 (2005.12); H04S 1/00 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/78 (2012.12); G06T 7/248 (2016.12); G10L 21/0272 (2012.12); H04R 3/005 (2012.12);
Abstract
Processing of ambience and speech can include extracting from audio signals, ambience and speech signals. One or more spatial parameters can be generated that define spatial characteristics of ambience sound in the one or more ambience audio signals. The primary speech signal, the one or more ambience audio signals, and the spatial parameters can be encoded into one or more encoded data streams. Other aspects are described and claimed.