US 11,727,945 B2
Methods and systems for interactive rendering of object based audio
Robert Andrew France, Bristol (GB); Thomas Ziegler, Nuremberg (DE); Sripal S. Mehta, San Francisco, CA (US); Andrew Jonathan Dowell, Horsham (GB); Prinyar Saungsomboon, Reading (GB); Michael David Dwyer, Royal Wootton Bassett (GB); Farhad Farahani, Los Altos, CA (US); Nicolas R. Tsingos, San Francisco, CA (US); and Freddie Sanchez, Berkeley, CA (US)
Assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION, San Francisco, CA (US); and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB, Dublin (IE)
Filed by DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION, San Francisco, CA (US); and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB, Amsterdam Zuidoost (NL)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/392,146.
Application 16/718,053 is a division of application No. 15/989,073, filed on May 24, 2018, granted, now 10,515,644, issued on Dec. 24, 2019.
Application 15/989,073 is a division of application No. 14/781,882, granted, now 9,997,164, issued on Jun. 12, 2018, previously published as PCT/US2014/031246, filed on Mar. 19, 2014.
Application 17/392,146 is a continuation of application No. 16/718,053, filed on Dec. 17, 2019, granted, now 11,081,118.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/832,397, filed on Jun. 7, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/807,922, filed on Apr. 3, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2022/0059103 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G10L 19/008 (2013.01); G10L 19/20 (2013.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 19/16 (2013.01)
CPC G10L 19/008 (2013.01) [G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G10L 19/20 (2013.01); H04S 3/008 (2013.01); H04S 7/30 (2013.01); G10L 19/167 (2013.01); H04S 2400/01 (2013.01); H04S 2400/13 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01); H04S 2420/03 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
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1. A method of decoding audio content of an audio program, said method comprising:
receiving the audio program, wherein the audio program comprises a first set of object channels, and wherein the audio program further comprises a second set of one or more speaker channels that does not include an object channel;
determining a subset of object channels, wherein the subset of object channels is indicative of a subset of the first set of object channels; and
decoding and rendering the audio content of the audio program, wherein the rendering includes rendering the subset of object channels and rendering the second set of one or more speaker channels, and wherein the rendering is further based on an output speaker configuration.