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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2013
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Boustead, Figtree, AU;
Craig Johnston, Sydney, AU;
Vinh Nguyen, Kogarah, AU;
Gary Spittle, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present document relates to methods and systems for setting up and managing two-dimensional or three-dimensional scenes for audio conferences. A conference controller () configured to place L upstream audio signals () within a 2D or 3D conference scene to be rendered to a listener () is described. The conference controller () is configured to set up a X-point conference scene; assign L upstream audio signals () to X talker locations (); determine a maximum number N of downstream audio signals () to be transmitted to the listener (); determine N downstream audio signals () from the L assigned upstream audio signals (); determine N updated talker locations for the N downstream audio signals (); and generate metadata identifying the updated talker locations and enabling an audio processing unit () to generate a spatialized audio signal.