Abstract: A user equipment, media control unit, media resource function, or another device or function capable of receiving, manipulating, and transmitting data may be configured to: receive an omnidirectional video; determine a viewport of a user equipment; determining a delivery mode; determine a region of the omnidirectional video based, at least partially, on the determined viewport and the determined delivery mode; encode the determined region; packetizing the encoded region; and transmit the packetized region to the user equipment based, at least partially, on the determined delivery mode.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: causing display of at least one world-locked volumetric object having at least one non-viewable region; determining a change in a user's viewing position relative to the at least one world-locked volumetric object; determining if the change in the user's viewing position relative to the at least one world-locked volumetric object will cause display of at least a portion of the at least one non-viewable region of the at least one world-locked volumetric object; and if it is determined that the change in the user's viewing position will cause display of at least a portion of the at least one non-viewable region, cause the at least one world-locked volumetric object to be user-locked.

Abstract: From multiple audio objects in an audio scene, one or more audio objects of interest are identified. First audio signals associated with the plurality of objects are processed for provision to a user device. The processing may be based on a position of the user device in an audio scene. The processing may include combining the first audio signals associated with the audio objects to form combined first audio signals, modifying the amplitude of the combined first audio signals and limiting to a first level the maximum amplitude of the combined first audio signals. The processing also includes modifying the amplitude of one or more individual first audio signals, associated with the one or more audio objects of interest, the modifying the amplitude of one or more individual first audio signals being independent of that for the combined first audio signals.

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.

Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least one method and apparatus to perform assigning, by a network device, a step descriptor to at least one segment split of a workflow comprising at least one data input instance from at least one network node; and sending at least one sub-flow of the workflow based on the at least one segment split towards at least one queued task for communication processing, wherein the communication processing is based at least on the step descriptor assigned to the at least one segment split.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described, comprising: determining a similarity between a content of a first zone and a content of at least one or more other zones of a multi-zone virtual scene, in response to a modification of the content of said first zone, wherein content as perceived by a user within said scene is dependent on a virtual position of the user within said scene; and determining an updated rendering position of the first zone relative to said one or more other zones within the virtual scene, dependent on the determined similarities.

Abstract: A method comprising: using a tracked real point of view of a user in a real space and a first mapping between the real space and a virtual space to determine a point of view of a virtual user within the virtual space; causing rendering to the user at least part of a virtual scene determined by the point of view of the virtual user within the virtual space; and using a selected one of a plurality of different mappings to map tracked user actions in the real space to actions of the virtual user in the virtual space, wherein, when a first mode is selected, the method comprises mapping tracked user actions in the real space, using the first mapping, to spatially-equivalent actions of the virtual user in the virtual space, and wherein, when a second mode is selected, the method comprises mapping tracked user actions in the real space, using a second mapping different to the first mapping, to non-spatially-equivalent actions of the virtual user in the virtual space, wherein the second mapping makes available user i

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.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program, the method comprising: obtaining a first audio signal emitted by an audio source, wherein the first audio signal is captured by a first microphone located at a first position; obtaining at least one second audio signal emitted by the same audio source, wherein the at least one second audio signal is captured by one or more second microphones located at one or more second positions which are different to the first position; determining if one or more of the second audio signals were obtained within a threshold time; and if one or more second audio signals were obtained within the threshold time causing the one or more second audio signals that were obtained within the threshold time to be processed for rendering spatial audio to a user; and if one or more second audio signals were not obtained within the threshold time causing, at least part of, the one or more second audio signals that were not obtained within the threshold time to be discarded.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to: present a virtual reality space having at least one defined and non-defined region; control a point-of-view location and a direction-of-view orientation based on sensors configured to sense the user in a real-world play space; receive input to move by means other than said sensors; determine if the requested point-of-view location is allowed or not allowed wherein a location is not allowed if any physical locations in the play space correspond to point-of-view locations in the virtual reality space that lie within a non-defined region and if the requested point-of-view location is not allowed, determine at least one of: (i) a compromise point-of-view location; (ii) a compromise direction-of-view orientation; (iii) a compromise point-of-view location and direction-of-view orientation; (iv) a compromise physical position of the user in the real-world play space; and present the virtual reality space from/with the at least one of (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv).

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: simultaneously controlling content rendered by a hand portable device and content rendered by a spatial audio device; and providing for rendering to a user, in response to an action by the user, of a first part, not a second part, of a spatial audio content via the hand portable device not the spatial audio device.

Abstract: An apparatus, based on a first audio track of at least one audio track, the first audio track audibly presented to the user as spatial audio such that it is perceived to originate from a particular location and based on the user being within a predetermined distance of the particular location; configured to provide for a change in the audible presentation of the first audio track to the user from presentation as spatial audio to presentation as at least one of monophonic and stereophonic audio.

Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured for receiving a spatial media content file including a plurality of viewpoints; circuitry configured for determining a first viewpoint from the plurality of viewpoints for a first user consuming the spatial media content file; circuitry configured for receiving an indication that affects an audio rendering of the first viewpoint for the first user, wherein the indication is associated with one or more actions of at least one second user consuming the spatial media content file; and circuitry configured for controlling the audio rendering of the first viewpoint for the first user in response to the receiving of the indication based on at least one of: a position and/or orientation of the first user, and the one or more actions of the second user.

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.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program, the method including enabling an output of an audio mixer to be rendered for a user where the user is located within a sound space, wherein at least one input channel is provided to the audio mixer and the at least one input channel receives a plurality of microphone output signals obtained by a plurality of microphones recording the sound space; determining that a first microphone records one or more sound objects within the sound space; and in response to the determining, enabling one or more of the plurality of microphone output signals to be, at least partially, removed from the at least one input channel to the audio mixer.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program including obtaining a first audio signal from at least a first microphone located at a first distance from an audio source; obtaining a local audio signal from a local microphone wherein the local microphone is located closer to the audio source than the first microphone; identifying the audio source using the first audio signal and the local audio signal; using the identified audio source to determine a delay between the first audio signal and the local audio signal: and using the determined delay to determine the length of the first audio signal and the local audio signal to be made available for processing so as to enable temporal alignment of at least the first audio signal and the local audio signal.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a man machine interface configured to provide: a screen that presents information indicative of, at least, a real-time capability of a remote user to access and consume mediated reality content; and a user-selectable option to initiate an action that causes the mediated reality content to become accessible to the remote user.

Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs. The apparatus including circuitry configured for obtaining a spatial audio signal where the spatial audio signal includes at least one participant audio object and at least one private audio object wherein the private audio object is associated with a participant which generated the participant audio object. The apparatus also includes circuitry configured for causing the participant audio object to be rendered in a first spatial location and causing the private audio object to be rendered in a second spatial location so that the rendering of the private audio object is less prominent than the rendering of the participant audio object.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: in response to user input, selecting at least one sound source of a spatial audio scene, comprising multiple sound sources, the spatial audio scene being defined by spatial audio content; selecting at least one related contextual sound source based on the at least one selected sound source; and causing rendering of an audio preview, representing the spatial audio content, that can be selected by a user, wherein the audio preview comprises a mix of sound sources including at least the at least one selected sound source and the at least one related contextual sound source but not all of the multiple sound sources of the spatial audio scene, and wherein selection of the audio preview causes an operation on at least the selected sound source.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: enabling user-selection of a first sub-set of available mediated reality content based on a current point of view of a user; throughout a first period of time, causing rendering of the selected first sub-set of available mediated reality content to the user as it is selected; throughout the first period of time, storing a second sub-set of the available mediated reality content for potential future rendering, wherein the second sub-set is different to the first sub-set being rendered to the user and is not being rendered to the user during the first period of time; during at least a latter portion of the first period of time, determining whether or not to augment the user-selected first sub-set of available mediated reality content to include an alert concerning the second sub-set of available mediated reality content.