	US 12,279,090 B2
	Privacy protection in spatial audio capture
Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Tampere (FI); Antti Johannes Eronen, Tampere (FI); Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi, Lempaala (FI); and Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Tampere (FI)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies OY, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 17/768,317
Filed by Nokia Technologies OY, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/080392 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 12, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/084004, PCT Pub. Date May 6, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20195933 (FI), filed on Oct. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0107225 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04R 1/40 (2006.01)

CPC H04R 1/406 (2013.01)

10 Claims

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 at least to

receive spatial audio capture requirement(s) of one or more user devices;

determine position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices;

generate one or more privacy masks at least partly based on the spatial audio capture requirement(s) and position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; and

transmit the generated privacy masks to the one or more user devices.