Patents by Inventor Antti Eronen

Antti Eronen 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: 12156014
    Abstract: An apparatus (303) comprising means configured to: obtain at least one audio signal (112); determine at least one direction parameter (506) of at least one propagating sound associated with the at least one audio signal (112); determine at least one direction (302) of at least one sound source associated with the at least one audio signal (112); modify the at least one direction parameter (506) in accordance with the determined at least one direction (302); and output the modified at least one direction parameter (508).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Mikko-Ville Laitinen, Antti Eronen, Juha Vilkamo, Tapani Pihlajakuja
  • Publication number: 20240312469
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to: obtain spatial audio content; decode encoded spatial metadata associated with the spatial audio content based, at least partially, on a configuration parameter indicative of a codec configuration used to encode, at least in part, spatial metadata; determine at least one prototype audio signal based, at least partially, on the spatial audio content and a configuration of at least one output device; and determine one or more spatial audio signals based, at least partially, on the at least one prototype audio signal and the decoded spatial metadata; and provide, to the at least one output device, the one or more spatial audio signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Tapani PIHLAJAKUJA, Lasse Laaksonen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 12093597
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: capturing images using one or more imaging devices of a foldable user device, wherein the user device comprises a visual display, wherein, in a first mode of operation, a display output on the visual display is modified depending on a folding angle of the foldable user device; capturing audio using one or more microphones of the foldable user device; providing a wind mode indication in a second mode of operation; and disabling the modification of the visual display depending on the folding angle in the second mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Mikko Heikkinen
  • Publication number: 20240305947
    Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain two or more audio signal sets, wherein each audio signal set is associated with a position; obtain at least one parameter value for at least two of the audio signal sets; obtain the positions associated with the at least two of the audio signal sets; obtain a listener position; obtain source position information; obtain values related to source energies associated with the source position information; generate at least one audio signal based on at least one audio signal from at least one of the audio signal sets based on the positions associated with the at least two of the audio signal sets and the listener position; generate at least one modified parameter value and a residual value; and process the at least one audio signal to generate a spatial audio output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Mikko-Ville Laitinen, Juha VILKAMO, Archontis POLITIS, Antti ERONEN, Leo MCCORMACK
  • Patent number: 12089028
    Abstract: A method including: obtaining at least two audio signals for reproduction, each of the at least two audio signals associated with a respective one of at least two reproduction locations within an audio reproduction space; obtaining within the audio reproduction space at least two zones; obtaining at least one location for a user's position within the audio reproduction space, the at least one location being relative to at least one of the at least two zones and the at least two reproduction locations; and processing the at least two audio signals based on the obtained at least one location for the user's position within the audio reproduction space to generate at least one output audio signal, the at least one output audio signal is reproduced from at least one of the at least two reproduction locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Tapani Pihlajakuja, Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen
  • Publication number: 20240292179
    Abstract: A renderer according to an embodiment is provided. The renderer is configured for rendering a virtual audio scene depending on one or more audio channels of each sound source of one or more sound sources emitting sound into the virtual audio scene, wherein, to process the one or more audio channels of said sound source. The renderer includes a late reverberation module configured for generating one or more late reverberation channels depending on the one or more audio channels of the sound source, wherein the one or more late reverberation channels represent a late-reverberation part of the sound emitted into the virtual audio scene by the sound source. Moreover, the renderer includes a sound scene generator for generating, using the one or more late-reverberation channels, one or more audio output channels for reproducing the virtual audio scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Andreas SILZLE, Jürgen HERRE, Antti ERONEN
  • Publication number: 20240292172
    Abstract: An apparatus for rendering a virtual audio scene according to an embodiment is provided. One or more sound sources are emitting sound in the virtual audio scene. The apparatus has an input interface configured for receiving audio information, wherein the audio information has audio information for the virtual audio scene. Moreover, the apparatus has a renderer configured for generating, depending on the audio information for the virtual audio scene, one or more audio output channels for reproducing the virtual audio scene. If information on a current acoustic environment of the virtual audio scene is not available for the renderer, the renderer is configured to generate the one or more audio output channels for reproducing the virtual audio scene depending on information on a default acoustic environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jürgen HERRE, Vensan MAZMANYAN, Alexander ADAMI, Nils PETERS, Simon SCHWÄR, Kahleel Porter HASSAN, Matthias GEIER, Sujeet MATE, Antti ERONEN, Otto HARJU
  • Patent number: 12028700
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to obtain audio signals related to one or more audio sources; determine a zoom effect related to the one or more audio sources; and generate audio effect information for the one or more audio sources based, at least partially, on the zoom effect and a zoom factor, wherein the audio effect information is configured to enable control of audio signal processing associated with the obtained audio signals, wherein the zoom factor is associated with, at least, the one or more audio sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Antti Eronen, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Kari Jarvinen
  • Patent number: 12027174
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for encoding spatial metadata. The example apparatus includes circuitry configured for obtaining spatial metadata associated with spatial audio content and obtaining a configuration parameter indicative of a source format of the spatial audio content. The circuitry is also configured to use the configuration parameter to select a method of compression of the spatial metadata associated with the spatial audio content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Tapani Pihlajakuja, Lasse Laaksonen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Publication number: 20240205631
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to: identify a POI in an audio scene, wherein one or more input audio signals represent the audio scene and at least one further input audio signal represents at least part of the audio scene, wherein the POI comprises a portion of the audio scene to be replaced during rendering using reconstructed audio parameters; generate, from the at least one further input audio signal, one or more complementary audio parameters that represent the POI in the audio scene; process the one or more input audio signals to obtain input audio parameters so as to enable replacement of the POI using the one or more complementary audio parameters; and combine the one or more complementary audio parameters with the input audio parameters, to create reconstructed audio parameters, so as to replace the POI in the audio scene at least partially using the one or more complementary audio parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppanen, Tapani Pihlajakuja, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 12001644
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate
  • Publication number: 20240129683
    Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one location and/or orientation associated with a user; obtain, based on the at least one location and/or orientation, one or more audio element, wherein the one or more audio element at least partially forms an audio scene; obtain, based on the at least one location and/or orientation, at least one auxiliary audio element, the at least one auxiliary audio element being at least one audio element or a combination of audio elements, wherein the at least one auxiliary audio element is associated with at least a part of the audio scene and is located at an outside zone of the audio scene; render the obtained audio element and/or at least one auxiliary audio element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Jussi LEPPANEN, Lasse LAAKSONEN
  • Patent number: 11943604
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a technique for spatial audio processing including: determining at least one spatial parameter based, at least partially, on at least one input audio signal captured with at least one first device, configured to represent at least a portion of an audio scene; identifying a portion of interest of the audio scene based, at least partially, on the at least one spatial parameter; generating at least one first audio signal based, at least partially, on the at least one input audio signal; generating at least one second audio signal based, at least partially, on at least one audio signal captured with at least one second device; and combining, at least partially, the at least one first audio signal and the at least one second audio signal into at least one combined audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppanen, Tapani Pihlajakuja, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Publication number: 20240089694
    Abstract: An apparatus for rendering an audio scene in a physical space including circuitry configured to: determine a listening position within the physical space during rendering; obtain at least one information of a virtual scene to render the virtual scene according to the at least one information; obtain at least one acoustic characteristic of the physical space; prepare the audio scene using the at least one information of the virtual scene and the at least one acoustic characteristic of the physical space, such that the virtual scene acoustics and the physical space acoustics are merged; and render the prepared audio scene according to the listening position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPANEN
  • Patent number: 11930350
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: providing an incoming audio indication in response to incoming audio (41), the incoming audio indication comprising visual representations of a plurality of audio modes (55-58); receiving at least one input from a user (59) for selecting one of the plurality of audio modes (42); and rendering audio (43) based, at least partially, on the selected audio mode, wherein one or more parameters of the rendered audio are determined based on the selected audio mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Antti Eronen
  • Patent number: 11917392
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed comprising means for providing first positional data indicative of a first user position in a virtual space which comprises a plurality of audio objects. The means may also be for receiving, based at least partially on the first positional data, data indicative of a first allocation of the audio objects into a prioritized order or into one of a plurality of prioritized groups in which each group has a respective priority order, and receiving audio data associated with at least some of the audio objects. The means may also be for rendering the received audio data for at least some of the audio objects associated with the received audio data, based on the first allocation data, in which audio objects with a higher priority or in a higher priority group are rendered with priority over audio objects allocated with a lower priority or in a lower priority group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
  • Patent number: 11902768
    Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one location and/or orientation associated with a user; obtain, based on the at least one location and/or orientation, one or more audio element, wherein the one or more audio element at least partially forms an audio scene; obtain, based on the at least one location and/or orientation, at least one auxiliary audio element, the at least one auxiliary audio element being at least one audio element or a combination of audio elements, wherein the at least one auxiliary audio element is associated with at least a part of the audio scene and is located at an outside zone of the audio scene; render the obtained audio element and/or at least one auxiliary audio element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Lasse Laaksonen
  • Patent number: 11882401
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product for receiving captured spatial audio information comprising at least one audio signal and at least one audio parameter for controlling the at least one audio signal, receiving an instruction to set an audio parameter to a first parameter value, setting, in response to determining that the first parameter value fulfils at least one criterion, the audio parameter to a second parameter value and changing the audio parameter from the second parameter value to the first parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Miikka Vilermo, Toni Mäkinen
  • Patent number: 11863946
    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: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
  • Patent number: 11825170
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen