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Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2013
Applicant:

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Jens Spille, Hemmingen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 3/02 (2006.01); G10L 19/20 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 3/02 (2013.01); G10L 19/20 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01); H04S 2420/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

Audio signals are recorded with microphones receiving acoustic information from one or more directions. The corresponding audio signals can be pre-listened to in production studios. However, Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) audio signals are matrixed in such a way that the matrixing prevents listening to the matrixed sound signals without dematrixing the matrixed sound signals. For enabling a sound engineer to listen to such a matrixed signal without full HOA decoding, an informative audio signal is added together with related side information data at encoding side to a selected part of the matrixed signal. This informative audio signal is removed before the inverse matrixing process at decoding side.


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