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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2009
Applicants:
Samsudin, Singapore, SG;
Sapna George, Singapore, SG;
Inventors:
Samsudin, Singapore, SG;
Sapna George, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/027 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides for the encoding of surround sound produced by any coincident microphone techniques with coincident-to-virtual microphone signal matrixing. An encoding scheme provides significantly lower computational demand, by deriving the spatial parameters and output downmixes from the coincident microphone array signals and the coincident-to-surround channel-coefficients matrix, instead of the multi-channel signals.