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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2013
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Boustead, Figtree, 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 a plurality of upstream audio signals () associated with a plurality of conference participants 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; assign the plurality of upstream audio signals () to respective ones of the talker locations (); determine a degree of activity of the plurality of upstream audio signals (); determine a dominant one of the plurality of upstream audio signals (); and emphasize the dominant upstream audio signal ().