Apple Inc. (20240404497). Masking Zone in Metadata for Spatial Audio Rendering

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Masking Zone in Metadata for Spatial Audio Rendering

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Dipanjan Sen of Dublin CA (US)

Moo Young Kim of San Diego CA (US)

Francois Becker of Antony (FR)

Sang Uk Ryu of San Diego CA (US)

Masking Zone in Metadata for Spatial Audio Rendering

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240404497 titled 'Masking Zone in Metadata for Spatial Audio Rendering



Original Abstract Submitted

the various aspects of the disclosure here enable a content creation side to control how a sound program is spatial audio rendered by a decoding side, so that an audio scene component in a metadata-specified three dimensional acoustic masking zone is not heard while another audio scene component in an un-masked zone of the sound program is heard by a listener of the playback. other aspects are also described and claimed.