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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2012
Sripal S. Mehta, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sergio Martinez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ethan A. Grossman, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Brad Thayer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dean Bullock, Novato, CA (US);
John Neary, Pleasant Hill, CA (US);
Sripal S. Mehta, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sergio Martinez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ethan A. Grossman, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Brad Thayer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dean Bullock, Novato, CA (US);
John Neary, Pleasant Hill, CA (US);
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are described for a synchronization and switchover mechanism for an adaptive audio system in which multi-channel (e.g., surround sound) audio is provided along with object-based adaptive audio content. A synchronization signal is embedded in the multi-channel audio stream and contains a track identifier and frame count for the adaptive audio stream to play out. The track identifier and frame count of a received adaptive audio frame is compared to the track identifier and frame count contained in the synchronization signal. If either the track identifier or frame count does not match the synchronization signal, a switchover process fades out the adaptive audio track and fades in the multi-channel audio track. The system plays the multi-channel audio track until the synchronization signal track identifier and frame count and adaptive audio track identifier and frame count match, at which point the adaptive audio content will be faded back in.