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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
David Thall, West Hollywood, CA (US);
Bharathidasan Venkatesan, Fremont, CA (US);
Andrew J. Klinzing, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Pedro M. De Sa Carvalho Corvo, West Hollywood, CA (US);
Thomas G. Parker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Edward L. Stein, Soquel, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method may include selecting a subset of sound sources from a plurality of sound sources in a scene, based on audibility of each of the plurality of sound sources. One or more clusters of sound sources are generated with the subset of sound sources. Spatial information of the subset of the sound sources is obtained from the scene. The subset of sound sources is spatially rendered as part of the same cluster according to the spatial information. Other aspects are also described and claimed.