Abstract: An apparatus for generating a sound field description having a representation of sound field components, including a direction determiner for determining one or more sound directions for each time-frequency tile of a plurality of time-frequency tiles of a plurality of microphone signals; a spatial basis function evaluator for evaluating, for each time-frequency tile of the plurality of time-frequency tiles, one or more spatial basis functions using the one or more sound directions; and a sound field component calculator for calculating, for each time-frequency tile of the plurality of time-frequency tiles, one or more sound field components corresponding to the one or more spatial basis functions evaluated using the one or more sound directions and a reference signal for a corresponding time-frequency tile, the reference signal being derived from one or more microphone signals of the plurality of microphone signals.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 13, 2019
Date of Patent:
June 23, 2020
Assignee:
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angenwandten Forschung e.V.
Inventors:
Emanuel Habets, Oliver Thiergart, Fabian Küch, Alexander Niederleitner, Affan-Hasan Khan, Dirk Mahne