Patents by Inventor Anssi Sakari Ramo
Anssi Sakari Ramo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11809641Abstract: A method comprising determining that an orientation of a mobile device is a flat orientation, determining a context of the mobile device, determining movement of the mobile device, and based on the orientation, context and movement of the device, determining orientation of visual content rendered on a display of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Miikka Tapani Vilermo, Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi, Anssi Sakari Rämö, Toni Mäkinen
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Publication number: 20220253262Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for: determining a direction of arrival of sound from a sound source relative to a user device using at least one captured audio signal; controlling an angle of orientation of visual information displayed on a display, wherein the angle of orientation of the visual information is at least partially dependent upon the determined direction of arrival of sound from the sound source relative to the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Arto Juhani LEHTINIEMI, Miikka Tapani VILERMO, Anssi Sakari RÄMÖ, Toni MÄKINEN
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Publication number: 20220253154Abstract: A method comprising determining that an orientation of a mobile device is a flat orientation, determining a context of the mobile device, determining movement of the mobile device, and based on the orientation, context and movement of the device, determining orientation of visual content rendered on a display of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Miikka Tapani VILERMO, Arto Juhani LEHTINIEMI, Anssi Sakari RÄMÖ, Toni MÄKINEN
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Patent number: 11328735Abstract: An apparatus for spatial audio signal encoding, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a 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: determine, for two or more audio signals, at least one spatial audio parameter for providing spatial audio reproduction, the at least one spatial audio parameter comprising a direction parameter with an elevation and an azimuth component; define a spherical grid generated by covering a sphere with smaller spheres, wherein the centres of the smaller spheres define points of the spherical grid; and convert the elevation and azimuth component of the direction parameter to an index value based on the defined spherical grid.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Rämö, Adriana Vasilache, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Patent number: 11062716Abstract: An apparatus for spatial audio signal encoding, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a 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: determine, for two or more audio signals, at least one spatial audio parameter for providing spatial audio reproduction, the at least one spatial audio parameter comprising a direction parameter with an elevation and an azimuth component; define a spherical grid generated by covering a sphere with smaller spheres, the smaller spheres arranged in circles of spheres wherein a first circle of spheres comprises one of the smaller spheres located with a centre at an elevation of 90 degrees relative to a reference direction of the sphere; and convert the elevation and azimuth component of the direction parameter to an index value based on the defined spherical grid.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Rämö, Adriana Vasilache, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Publication number: 20200321013Abstract: An apparatus for spatial audio signal encoding, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a 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: determine, for two or more audio signals, at least one spatial audio parameter for providing spatial audio reproduction, the at least one spatial audio parameter comprising a direction parameter with an elevation and an azimuth component; define a spherical grid generated by covering a sphere with smaller spheres, the smaller spheres arranged in circles of spheres wherein a first circle of spheres comprises one of the smaller spheres located with a centre at an elevation of 90 degrees relative to a reference direction of the sphere; and convert the elevation and azimuth component of the direction parameter to an index value based on the defined spherical grid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2017Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Rämö, Adriana Vasilache, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Publication number: 20200273467Abstract: An apparatus for spatial audio signal encoding, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a 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: determine, for two or more audio signals, at least one spatial audio parameter for providing spatial audio reproduction, the at least one spatial audio parameter comprising a direction parameter with an elevation and an azimuth component; define a spherical grid generated by covering a sphere with smaller spheres, wherein the centres of the smaller spheres define points of the spherical grid; and convert the elevation and azimuth component of the direction parameter to an index value based on the defined spherical grid.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2017Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Rämö, Adriana Vasilache, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Patent number: 10665247Abstract: It is inter alia disclosed to determine a first quantized representation of an input vector, and to determine a second quantized representation of the input vector based on a codebook depending on the first quantized representation.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Adriana Vasilache, Anssi Sakari Ramo, Lasse Juhani Laaksonen
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Patent number: 10602296Abstract: Phase effect interference is determined at a listening location between signals from at least two audio objects; and a modified position is computed for at least one of the audio objects such that the determined phase effect interference at the listening location is altered as a result of the modified position. For each audio object for which the position is modified at least phase of at least one frequency component of the respective signal is adjusted in correspondence with the modified position so as to eliminate the determined phase effect interference. The signals from the at least two audio objects are formed after this adjusting; and then the formed signals are provided to a sound system comprising multiple audio transducers so as to render the formed signals at the listening position where the phase effect interference is eliminated during rendering.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Ramo, Jussi Artturi Leppanen, Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi
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Patent number: 10580416Abstract: A method comprising: receiving lattice vector quantised parameter data, the parameter data representing at least one audio signal; determining within the data at least one bit error; and controlling the decoding of the data to generate an audio signal based on the determining of the bit error.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Adriana Vasilache, Anssi Sakari Rämö, Lasse Juhani Laaksonen
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Patent number: 10306355Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided to indicate or automatically configure headphone channel orientation based on a physical orientation determination. An apparatus is provided that is configured to at least determine an orientation of the headphone device; analyze the determined orientation; and provide an indication of the determined orientation or adjust the output channel configuration of the apparatus for the headphone device. The apparatus may be further configured to determine the orientation of the headphone device based on at least one of: a head turn position; a direction of one or more audio signals; a direction of movement, wherein the movement is determined based on a determination of acceleration or trajectory of the headphone device; two or more compass data, wherein at least one compass is located in each of the apparatus and the headphone device; and a difference in characteristics of one or more audio signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Miikka Tapani Vilermo, Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Antti Eronen, Anssi Sakari Ramo, Koray Ozcan, Jussi Artturi Leppanen
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Publication number: 20190096410Abstract: A method including determining a plurality of band energy scale values for a pair of audio signals; transforming the band energy scale values using a discrete cosine transform to generate a plurality of coefficient values; and selecting a sub-set of the plurality of coefficient values to generate a representation of a level difference between the pair of audio signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2016Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Adriana VASILACHE, Lasse Juhani LAAKSONEN, Anssi Sakari RAMO, Antti HURMALAINEN
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Patent number: 10199044Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a channel analyzer configured to determine for a first frame of at least one audio signal a set of first frame audio signal multi-channel parameters; a multichannel parameter selector configured to select for the first frame a sub-set of the set of first frame audio signal multi-channel parameters based on a value associated with the first frame; and a multichannel parameter encoder configured to generate an encoded first frame audio signal multi-channel parameter based on the selected sub-set of the set of first frame audio signal multi-channel parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Adriana Vasilache, Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Rämö
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Publication number: 20180374489Abstract: A method comprising: receiving lattice vector quantised parameter data, the parameter data representing at least one audio signal; determining within the data at least one bit error; and controlling the decoding of the data to generate an audio signal based on the determining of the bit error.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2015Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Adriana VASILACHE, Anssi Sakari RÄMÖ, Lasse Juhani LAAKSONEN
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Publication number: 20180359592Abstract: Phase effect interference is determined at a listening location between signals from at least two audio objects; and a modified position is computed for at least one of the audio objects such that the determined phase effect interference at the listening location is altered as a result of the modified position. For each audio object for which the position is modified at least phase of at least one frequency component of the respective signal is adjusted in correspondence with the modified position so as to eliminate the determined phase effect interference. The signals from the at least two audio objects are formed after this adjusting; and then the formed signals are provided to a sound system comprising multiple audio transducers so as to render the formed signals at the listening position where the phase effect interference is eliminated during rendering.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2017Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Ramo, Jussi Artturi Leppanen, Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi
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Patent number: 10109287Abstract: It is inter alia disclosed to quantize a vector of a plurality of coefficients using a predictive mode of operation of a vector quantizer, wherein the vector quantizer can operate in either a predictive mode of operation or a non-predictive mode of operation, determine a vector of a plurality of recovered coefficients; compare the vector of the plurality of coefficients to the vector of the plurality of recovered coefficients; and determine the mode of operation of the vector quantizer for a vector of a plurality of coefficients associated with a subsequent frame of audio samples, wherein the mode of operation is dependent on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2012Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Adriana Vasilache, Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Rämö
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Patent number: 9911423Abstract: It is disclosed inter alia a method comprising: estimating a value of entropy for a multi-channel audio signal; determining a channel configuration of the multi-channel audio signal from the value of entropy; and encoding the multi-channel audio signal, wherein the mode of encoding is dependent on the channel configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Adriana Vasilache, Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Rämö
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Patent number: 9892742Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a vector generator configured to generate at least one vector of parameters defining at least one audio signal; a lattice vector quantizer configured to sort the at least one vector of parameters according to an ordering of at least one vector absolute tuples to generate an associated at least one ordered vector of parameters; the lattice vector quantizer configured to select from a list of leader classes at least one potential code vector; the lattice vector quantizer configured to determine a distance between the at least one potential code vector and the at least one ordered vector of parameters; the lattice vector quantizer configured to determine at least one leader class associated with a potential code vector which generates the smallest associated distance; the lattice vector quantizer configured to transpose the at least one leader class to generate an output lattice quantized codevector.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Adriana Vasilache, Anssi Sakari Rämö, Lasse Juhani Laaksonen
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Patent number: 9865269Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a channel analyzer configured to determine at least one set of parameters defining a difference between at least two audio signal channels; a value analyzer configured to analyze the at least one set of parameters to determine an initial trend; a mapper configured to map instances of the at least one set of parameters according to a first mapping to generate mapped instances with associated order position instances based on the initial trend; and an encoder configured to encode the mapped instances based on the order position of the mapped instances.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Adriana Vasilache, Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Rämö
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Patent number: 9799339Abstract: An apparatus comprising a mapper configured to map an instance of a parameter according to a first mapping to generate a first mapped instance; a remapper configured to remap the first mapped instance dependent on the frequency distribution of mapped instances to generate a remapped instance with an associated order position; and an encoder configured to encode the remapped instance dependent on an order position of the remapped instance.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Adriana Vasilache, Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Anssi Sakari Rämö