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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2013
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gary Spittle, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Michael P. Hollier, San Carlos, CA (US);
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A conference controller () configured to place an upstream audio signal () associated with a conference participant and a sound signal 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 with X different spatial talker locations () within the conference scene, X being an integer, X>0; assign the upstream audio signal () to one of the talker locations (); place a sound signal at a spatial sound location () within the X-point conference scene; and generate metadata identifying the assigned talker location () and the spatial sound location and enabling an audio processing unit () to generate a spatialized audio signal based on a set of downstream audio signals () comprising the upstream audio signal () and the sound signal.