US 12,243,540 B2
Merging of spatial audio parameters
Mikko-Ville Laitinen, Espoo (FI); Lasse Laaksonen, Tampere (FI); Adriana Vasilache, Tampere (FI); Tapani Pihlajakuja, Kellokoski (FI); and Anssi Rämö, Tampere (FI)
Assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 17/786,088
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Nov. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/FI2020/050750
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 16, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/130404, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 1919130 (GB), filed on Dec. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0197086 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G10L 19/008 (2013.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC G10L 19/008 (2013.01) [H04S 7/302 (2013.01); H04S 2420/03 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:
determine or receive at least two of a type of spatial audio parameter for one or more audio signals, wherein a first of the type of spatial audio parameter is associated with a first group of samples in a domain of the one or more audio signals and a second of the type of spatial audio parameter is associated with a second group of samples in the domain of the one or more audio signals;
merge the first of the type of spatial audio parameter and the second of the type of spatial audio parameter into a merged spatial audio parameter; and
at least one of store or transmit an encoded representation of at least one of the first of the type of spatial audio parameter, the second of the type of spatial audio parameter or the merged spatial audio parameter.