Patents by Inventor Jussi Leppanen

Jussi Leppanen 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).

  • Patent number: 11290831
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and computer programs are described comprising: providing an incoming call indication in response to an incoming call, the incoming call indication including an initial ambient audio signal comprising a combination of first ambient audio and second ambient audio; receiving an ambient audio control command; and adjusting the initial ambient audio signal to generate an adjusted ambient audio signal depending on the ambient audio control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Miikka Vilermo, Arto Lehtiniemi, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate
  • Publication number: 20220095047
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means configured to: receive audio content from a remote user device, the audio content comprising primary audio and secondary audio, the secondary audio being different to the primary audio and comprising ambient audio; receive secondary audio importance information associated with said audio content and indicative of an importance of the secondary audio; receive current audio presentation information indicative of at least whether audio from one or more audio sources is currently being presented as spatial audio such that respective audio of the one or more audio sources is to be perceived as originating from one or more respective directions or ranges of directions around the user; provide for presentation of the primary audio; and provide for presentation of the secondary audio based on the secondary audio importance information and the current audio presentation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Lasse LAAKSONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN
  • Patent number: 11272286
    Abstract: A method including obtaining a first clean signal and a first processed signal dependent upon audio input at a first microphone; obtaining a second clean signal and a second processed signal dependent upon audio input at a second microphone; using the first clean signal and the second clean signal to enable further processing of at least the first processed signal and the second processed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
  • Patent number: 11259137
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a technique for spatial audio processing on basis of two or more input audio signals that represent an audio scene and at least one further input audio signal that represents at least part of the audio scene is provided, the technique including identifying a portion of interest (POI) in the audio scene; processing the two or more input audio signals into a spatial audio signal where the POI in the audio scene is suppressed; generating, on basis of the at least one further input audio signal, a complementary audio signal that represents the POI in the audio scene; and combining the complementary audio signal with the spatial audio signal to create a reconstructed spatial audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppanen, Tapani Pihlajakuja, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 11244659
    Abstract: A method apparatus, and computer program, the method comprising: storing mediated reality content and associated information relating to a first real space in which the mediated reality content has been displayed; selecting the mediated reality content for display in a second real space; obtaining information relating to the second real space; and using the information relating to the first real space and the information relating to the second real space to adapt the mediated reality content for display in the second real space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Anssi Rämö, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppänen
  • Patent number: 11228833
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means configured to: receive audio content from a remote user device, the audio content comprising primary audio and secondary audio, the secondary audio being different to the primary audio and comprising ambient audio; receive secondary audio importance information associated with said audio content and indicative of an importance of the secondary audio; receive current audio presentation information indicative of at least whether audio from one or more audio sources is currently being presented as spatial audio such that respective audio of the one or more audio sources is to be perceived as originating from one or more respective directions or ranges of directions around the user; provide for presentation of the primary audio; and provide for presentation of the secondary audio based on the secondary audio importance information and the current audio presentation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
  • Publication number: 20220007078
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to: receive comment information from a first device associated with audio-visual content for presentation at a second device and a comment time indicative of a time during the audio-visual content; receive timing information from the second device indicative of a time during the audio-visual content that is currently being presented; determine a relevant-comment time; and wherein if the time during the audio-visual content that is currently being presented at the second device is greater than the relevant-comment time, display the comment with the audio-visual content presented at the second device at a delayed time comprising: a) a time during the audio-visual content at which there is a reoccurrence of a first event that occurred in the audio-visual content at the comment time; or b) a time during the audio-visual content at which there is a second event, different to but similar to the first event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN
  • Publication number: 20210405771
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program, the apparatus comprising: means for enabling three dimensional content to be rendered; means for determining movement of the apparatus; means for controlling scrolling of the three dimensional content, wherein if the movement of the apparatus is within a first category the three dimensional content is scrolled to correspond to the movement of the apparatus and if the movement of the apparatus is within a second category the three dimensional content is not scrolled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Miikka VILERMO, Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN
  • Patent number: 11209903
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer instructions are provided. The apparatus comprises means for: mapping a virtual space to a real space; associating a user's real location in the real space with a virtual location of the user in the virtual space, such that a change in the user's real location causes a corresponding change in the user's virtual location; disassociating the user's real location with the user's virtual location, based at least in part on at least one user input; and changing, following disassociation of the user's real location with the user's virtual location, the user's virtual location without a corresponding change in the user's real location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Mikko-Ville Laitinen
  • Patent number: 11205307
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is described, including: determining a position of a plurality of users within a volumetric space; and determining a rendering of a message within the volumetric space, based, at least in part, on the determined positions of said users, such that the message is one or more of: visible to, audible by and touchable by each of said users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Johannes Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Juha Henrik Arrasvuori
  • Publication number: 20210375258
    Abstract: A method including receiving an audio scene including at least one source captured using at least one near field microphone and at least one far field microphone. The method includes determining at least one room-impulse-response associated with the audio scene based on the at least one near field microphone and the at least one far field microphone, accessing a predetermined scene geometry corresponding to the audio scene, and identifying best match to the predetermined scene geometry in a scene geometry database. The method also includes performing RIR comparison based on the at least one RIR and at least one geometric RIR associated with the best matching geometry and rendering a volumetric audio scene based on a result of the RIR comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPANEN, Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Tapani PIHLAJAKUJA
  • Publication number: 20210377686
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and computer programs are described comprising: providing an incoming call indication in response to an incoming call, the incoming call indication including an initial ambient audio signal comprising a combination of first ambient audio and second ambient audio; receiving an ambient audio control command; and adjusting the initial ambient audio signal to generate an adjusted ambient audio signal depending on the ambient audio control command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Miikka VILERMO, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE
  • Patent number: 11169602
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to, based on virtual reality content for presentation to a user in a virtual reality space for viewing in virtual reality, wherein a virtual reality view presented to the user provides for viewing of the virtual reality content, and an identified physical real-world object; providing for display of an object image that at least includes a representation of the identified physical real-world object that is overlaid on the virtual reality content presented in the virtual reality view, the object image displayed at a location in the virtual reality space that corresponds to a real-world location of the identified physical real-world object relative to the user, the object image further including at least a representation of a further physical real-world object that is identified as potentially hindering physical user-access to said identified physical real-world object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Juha Arrasvuori
  • Patent number: 11140507
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: obtaining an indication of a variable position of at least one user in real space; mapping the position of the user in real space to a position of the user in a sound space; controlling an output audio signal, for rendering a sound scene by a loudspeaker, the sound scene being defined by the one or more sound sources of the plurality of sound sources that are within a sub-volume of the sound space that excludes the position of the user in the sound space and that is sized in dependence upon the position of the user in the sound space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Miikka Vilermo, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen
  • Publication number: 20210286503
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising adding an interactive object to an interactive object queue in response to a user indication to add the interactive object to the queue, providing a first control area corresponding to the interactive object in response to the interactive object being added to the interaction object queue, wherein the first control area is accessible to the user, determining whether the user is within the first control area, providing at least one feedback to the user in response to determining that the user is within the first control area, and receiving an interaction input from the user for interacting with the interactive object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE
  • Publication number: 20210289292
    Abstract: A method including obtaining a first clean signal and a first processed signal dependent upon audio input at a first microphone; obtaining a second clean signal and a second processed signal dependent upon audio input at a second microphone; using the first clean signal and the second clean signal to enable further processing of at least the first processed signal and the second processed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Jussi LEPPANEN, Veli-Matti KOLMONEN
  • Publication number: 20210287651
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for simulating reverberation in rendering systems. A decoder/renderer may determine how to simulate reverberation with reference to audio scene description format file information or other bitstream information regarding the virtual scene geometry, and/or a lookup table. Late reverberation may be generated based on reverberator parameters derived from the virtual scene geometry, including the lengths of delay lines, attenuation filter coefficients, and diffuse-to-direct ratio characteristics, using a feedback delay network. Early reverberation may be generated based on determining what potential reflecting elements in a virtual scene geometry are reflecting planes; this may involve the simulation of ray reflection, potentially through beam tracing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Antti ERONEN, Sujeet Mate, Jussi Leppanen, Pasi Liimatainen
  • Patent number: 11122381
    Abstract: An apparatus for spatial audio signal processing, the apparatus including at least one processor configured to: receive captured audio content, the captured audio content captured within a capture environment with defined geometry; determine audio directions and distances associated with the captured audio content; determine a listening space area geometry; map the audio directions and distances associated with the captured audio content relative to the defined geometry to the listening space area geometry; and synthesize a volumetric audio based on the mapped audio directions and distances to generate an audio content experience within the listening space area geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Tapani Pihlajakuja
  • Publication number: 20210271315
    Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured for: obtaining media content, wherein the media content includes at least one object data; obtaining priority content information, the priority content information including a priority identification identifying and classifying the at least one object; rendering the at least one object based on the priority content information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Kari Juhani JARVINEN, Jussi LEPPANEN, Tapani PIHLAJAKUJA, Adriana VASILACHE
  • Publication number: 20210274305
    Abstract: A method including enabling a first user having a first user device to communicate with one or more second users having one or more second user devices via a network, wherein each user has a spatial position within a virtual space, such that, for each user within the virtual space, all other users within the virtual space have a relative spatial position; providing spatial audio data from the first user device to the one or more second user devices and receiving spatial audio data at the first user device from the one or more second user devices, such that each user is provided with audio from the other users in the respective relative spatial positions of the other users; and enabling a third user having a third user device to communicate with the first user and the one or more second users via the first user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Jussi LEPPANEN, Mikko-Ville LAITINEN