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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2023
Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Förderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v., Munich, DE;
Andrea Eichenseer, Erlangen, DE;
Srikanth Korse, Erlangen, DE;
Stefan Bayer, Erlangen, DE;
Fabian Küch, Erlangen, DE;
Oliver Thiergart, Erlangen, DE;
Guillaume Fuchs, Erlangen, DE;
Dominik Weckbecker, Erlangen, DE;
Jürgen Herre, Erlangen, DE;
Markus Multrus, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for encoding a plurality of audio objects and related metadata indicating direction information on the plurality of audio objects has: a downmixer for downmixing the plurality of audio objects to obtain one or more transport channels; a transport channel encoder for encoding one or more transport channels to obtain one or more encoded transport channels; and an output interface for outputting an encoded audio signal comprising the one or more encoded transport channels, wherein the downmixer is configured to downmix the plurality of audio objects in response to the direction information on the plurality of audio objects.