Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Audio apparatus and method therefor
-
Application No.: US14786679Application Date: 2014-05-06
-
Publication No.: US09860669B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn , Arnoldus Werner Johannes Oomen , Aki Sakari Haermae
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP13168064 20130516; EP14150062 20140102
- International Application: PCT/IB2014/061226 WO 20140506
- International Announcement: WO2014/184706 WO 20141120
- Main IPC: H04R5/00
- IPC: H04R5/00 ; H04S7/00 ; G10L19/008

Abstract:
An audio apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive audio data and audio transducer position data for a plurality of audio transducers; and a renderer configured to render the audio data by generating audio transducer drive signals for the audio transducers from the audio data. Further, a clusterer is configured to cluster the audio transducers into a set of clusters in response to the audio transducer position data and to distances between audio transducers in accordance with a distance metric. A render controller is configured to adapt the rendering in response to the clustering. The apparatus is configured to select array processing techniques for specific subsets that contain audio transducers that are sufficiently close and allow automatic adaptation to audio transducer configurations thereby, e.g., allowing a user increased flexibility in positioning loudspeakers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160073215A1 AN AUDIO APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
Information query