Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic discovery and localization of speaker locations in surround sound systems
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Application No.: US16336861Application Date: 2017-09-28
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Publication No.: US10779084B2Publication Date: 2020-09-15
- Inventor: Daniel Arteaga , Giulio Cengarle , David Matthew Fischer , Antonio Mateos Sole , Davide Scaini , Alan J. Seefeldt
- Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation , DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco NL Amsterdam Zuidoost
- Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation,Dolby International AB
- Current Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation,Dolby International AB
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco NL Amsterdam Zuidoost
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@18f9096c com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6d3881c
- International Application: PCT/US2017/054169 WO 20170928
- International Announcement: WO2018/064410 WO 20180405
- Main IPC: H04R5/02
- IPC: H04R5/02 ; H04R5/04 ; H04R5/027 ; H04R3/12 ; H04S7/00 ; H04R3/00 ; G01S5/18

Abstract:
Embodiments are described for a method for localizing a set of speakers (106) and microphones (108), having only the times of arrival between each of the speakers and microphones. An autodiscovery process (107) uses an external input to set: a global translation (3 continuous parameters), a global rotation (3 continuous parameters), and discrete symmetries, i.e., an exchange of any axis pairs and/or reversal of any axis. Different time of arrival acquisition techniques may be used, such as ultrasonic sweeps or generic multitrack audio content. The autodiscovery algorithm is based in minimizing a certain cost function, and the process allows for latencies in the recordings, possibly linked to the latencies in the emission.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190253801A1 AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY AND LOCALIZATION OF SPEAKER LOCATIONS IN SURROUND SOUND SYSTEMS Public/Granted day:2019-08-15
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