US 12,245,020 B2
Electronic device, method and computer program
Stefan Uhlich, Stuttgart (DE); and Michael Enenkl, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/907,988
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 26, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/054930
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/175735, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20161654 (EP), filed on Mar. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0164510 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. H04S 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04S 7/307 (2013.01) [H04S 2400/11 (2013.01); H04S 2400/13 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
circuitry configured to
estimate a distraction level of an audio object stream,
perform a field-of-listening evaluation on the audio object stream to estimate a position distraction level corresponding to the distraction level, and
modify the audio object stream based on the estimated distraction level to obtain a modified audio object stream.