US 11,758,345 B2
Processing audio for live-sounding production
Raj Alur, San Jose, CA (US); and Roderick Randall, Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed by Raj Alur, San Jose, CA (US); and Roderick Randall, Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/499,327.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/090,129, filed on Oct. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0116726 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 5/02 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); G10L 19/008 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC H04S 7/30 (2013.01) [G10L 19/008 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 5/02 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01); H04S 3/008 (2013.01); H04S 2400/01 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of producing audio, comprising:
receiving (i) multiple audio tracks of respective sound sources disposed at an originating location and (ii) tag metadata associated with the respective audio tracks, the tag metadata including location information indicating relative locations of the sound sources at the originating location;
decoding the audio tracks; and
providing the decoded audio tracks to respective playback units at a listening venue for reproducing respective audio of the decoded audio tracks,
wherein the method further comprises placing the playback units, based on the location information of the tag metadata, at relative locations at the listening venue that substantially match the relative locations of the sound sources at the originating location.