Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising capturing spatial audio data during an image capturing process, determining an orientation of an image capturing device during the spatial audio data capture, generating an audio focus signal from said captured spatial audio data (wherein said audio focus signal is focused in an image capturing direction of said image capturing device), generating modified spatial audio data (e.g. by modifying the captured spatial audio data to compensate for changes in orientation during the spatial audio data capture), and generating an audio output signal from a combination of the audio focus signal and the modified spatial audio data.

Abstract: Examples of the disclosure enable image augmentations to be used with images of users wearing head mounted items. In examples of the disclosure an apparatus can be configured to use gaze tracking to determine a location of a user's pupil wherein the user is wearing a head mounted item. The apparatus can also be configured to enable display of an indication of the location of the user's pupil so that the indication is visible on a surface of the head mounted item. The indication is configured to be used for positioning at least one image augmentation for a captured image comprising the user.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program for controlling an earphone device is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for detecting a condition corresponding to an earphone device becoming disengaged from a user's ear and for operating said earphone device in an adjustment mode based on detecting the condition, wherein, in the adjustment mode, an operation associated with a touch sensor on said earphone device is changed.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving spatial audio capture requirement(s) of one or more user devices; determining position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; generating 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 transmitting the generated privacy masks to the one or more user devices.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product for: receiving information on a position of at least one user with respect to a spatial audio field provided by an audio source device, determining an audio volume level at the position of the at least one user, receiving information relating to background noise generated by the audio source device when providing the spatial audio field, determining, based on the audio volume level at the position of the at least one user and the information relating to the background noise, control information for controlling the audio source device, and controlling the audio source device based on the control information when providing the spatial audio field.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for providing audio data for output to a user device, the audio data representing a virtual space comprising a plurality of sounds located at respective spatial locations within the virtual space, the plurality of sounds being respectively associated with a plurality of sound sources. The apparatus may also comprise means for detecting a predetermined gesture associated with a user identifying one of the plurality of sound sources to be a sound source of interest, determining a directional vector between a position of the user at a time of detecting the predetermined gesture and a position of the sound source of interest in the virtual space, and processing the audio data such that sounds at least in the direction of the directional vector are modified when output to the user device.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed. An example embodiment of the method may comprise receiving audio and video data from a plurality of user devices as part of a conference call, the video data representing a user of the respective user device and identifying one or more of the user devices as having a spatial audio capture capability. Another operation may comprise displaying, or causing display of, the video data from the user devices in different respective windows of a user interface. The respective windows for the identified one or more user devices may be displayed in an enlarged format so as to have a wider background region than for windows for the user devices without a spatial capture capability.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a first display for displaying a first image; a second display for displaying a second image; a reflection surface configured to reflect the first image displayed on the first display towards a user of the apparatus; means for user adjustment of an angle between the first display and the reflection surface; and a controller configured to adapt the first image displayed on the first display so that it can be viewed via reflection and configured to control display of the first image on the first display and the second image on the second display wherein simultaneous viewing of a reflection of the first image displayed on the first display in the reflection surface and of the second image displayed on the second display creates a combination image.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: providing a stereo or spatial audio signal produced using individual signals from respective microphones of a user device, the stereo or spatial audio signal representing an audio scene; detecting unwanted noise in at least one of the individual signals; responsive to detecting the unwanted noise, modifying the stereo or spatial audio signal based on a determined level of spatial interest in the audio scene meeting a predetermined condition; and providing the modified audio signal for output via one or more speakers.

Abstract: A method including: obtaining at least three microphone audio signals, wherein the microphone audio signals are associated with microphones with a location relative to an apparatus on which the microphones are located; analysing the at least three microphone audio signals to determine at least one metadata directional parameter; generating a first audio signal and a second audio signal based on at least one of the at least three microphone audio signals and the at least one metadata directional parameter; and outputting and/or storing the first audio signal, the second audio signal and the at least one metadata directional parameter, such that the first audio signal, the second audio signal, and the at least one metadata directional parameter enable a generation of an output audio signal with an adjustable audio focusing.

Abstract: An apparatus for rendering a combined audio scene including circuitry configured to: obtain information configured to define, for a first audio scene, a first audio scene parameter; obtain further information configured to define, for a further audio scene, a further audio scene parameter; identify a location for a modification of at least in part the first audio scene, the location being configurable at least partially based on the further audio scene parameter; and prepare the combined audio scene for rendering, by modifying at least in part the first audio scene based on the further audio scene parameter such that the rendering of the combined audio scene incorporates the modified at least in part first audio scene based on the identified location using the further scene parameter.

Abstract: Examples of the disclosure are configured to reduce the effects of leaked images from mediated reality headsets. Examples of the disclosure comprise determining that an object is positioned relative to a mediated reality headset such that one or more portions of an image displayed by the mediated reality headset could be leaked in a field of view of the object. Examples of the disclosure also comprise identifying one or more portions of the image that are displayed by the mediated reality headset such that leakage of those one or more portions is expected to be in the field of view of the object. Examples of the disclosure also comprise causing modification of the display of the image by the mediated reality headset wherein the modification reduces light leakage for the one or more portions of the image that are identified as being displayed such that leakage of those one or more portions is expected to be in the field of view of the object.

Abstract: Examples of the disclosure are configured to reduce the effects of reflections from the surfaces of head mounted items such as mediated reality headsets or sunglasses. Examples of the disclosure are configured to detect that a user is using a device with a display and that the user is wearing a head mounted item comprising one or more reflective surfaces. The examples of the disclosure then cause a light pattern to be projected onto the one or more reflective surfaces wherein the pattern is projected to mask a reflection of the display of the device on the one or more reflective surfaces.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: means for receiving one or more left ear microphone signals; means for receiving one or more right ear microphone signals; means for boosting a left ear sound signal in dependence upon the received one or more right ear microphone signals; means for boosting a right ear sound signal in dependence upon the received one or more left ear microphone signals.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: classifying an audio signal as at least a first audio signal for time synchronization with a video signal or a second audio signal not for time synchronization with a video signal; processing the first audio signal for time synchronization with the video signal wherein the processing introduces a first delay for time synchronization with the video signal; processing the second audio signal wherein the processing introduces a second delay shorter than the first delay.

Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to monitoring of facial characteristics. In examples of the disclosure there may be provided an apparatus that is configured to determine that a communications device is positioned close to an ear of a user of the communication device during a communication session wherein the communications device comprises at least one display. The apparatus may also be configured to use sensors in or under the display of the communications device to monitor one or more facial characteristics of the user while the communication device is close to the user's ear and to identifying an emotional context of the user based on the monitored one or more facial characteristics of the user.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: detecting one or more parts of a hand of a user within a first defined distance of a touch sensitive tactile display; determining based, at least in part, on the detected parts of the hand of the user, an expected type of user interaction with the display, including determining an expected number of parts (e.g. digits or fingers) of the hand that will make contact with the display as part of the expected type of user interaction; and providing tactile feedback to the user when the user makes contact with the display dependent, at least in part, on the expected type of user interaction.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An apparatus including means for: identifying audio-focus attenuation of a sound source; determining a correspondence between the sound source that is subject to audio focus attenuation and a corresponding visual object; and modifying capturing of an image to at least partially exclude and/or modify the visual object corresponding to the sound source subject to audio focus attenuation.

Abstract: Example embodiments are disclosed relating to virtual content. Example embodiments may involve providing video data for output to a user device, the video data representing a virtual scene comprising one or more virtual objects at respective locations in the virtual scene with which a user of the user device may interact during an interactive session. The interactive session may be paused and a resumption input may be received at a second time, subsequent to the first time, for unpausing the interactive session. Responsive to receiving the resumption input, it may be detected that interaction with a particular virtual object, with which the user has interacted prior to the interactive session being paused, is restricted due to physical properties of a real-world space in which the user is located at the second time. The virtual scene may be modified to permit interaction with the particular virtual object without the detected restriction.