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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
May. 22, 2024
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Dipanjan Sen, Dublin, CA (US);
Moo Young Kim, San Diego, CA (US);
Francois Becker, Antony, FR;
Sang UK Ryu, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/175 (2006.01); G10L 19/002 (2013.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/1752 (2020.05); G10L 19/002 (2013.01); H04S 7/302 (2013.01); H04S 2420/11 (2013.01);
Abstract
The various aspects of the disclosure here enable a content creation side to control how a sound program is spatial audio rendered by a decoding side, so that an audio scene component in a metadata-specified three dimensional acoustic masking zone is not heard while another audio scene component in an un-masked zone of the sound program is heard by a listener of the playback. Other aspects are also described and claimed.