Spatial audio rendering adaptive to signal level and loudspeaker playback limit thresholds

Abstract

Rendering audio signals may involve a mapping for each audio signal to the loudspeaker signals computed as a function of an audio signal's intended perceived spatial position, physical positions associated with the loudspeakers and a time- and frequency-varying representation of loudspeaker signal level relative to a maximum playback limit of each loudspeaker. Each mapping may be computed to approximately achieve the intended perceived spatial position of an associated audio signal when the loudspeaker signals are played back. A representation of loudspeaker signal level relative to a maximum playback limit may be computed for each audio signal. The mapping of an audio signal into a particular loudspeaker signal may be reduced as loudspeaker signal level relative to a maximum playback limit increases above a threshold, while the mapping may be increased into one or more other loudspeakers for which the maximum playback limits are less than a threshold.