Patents by Inventor Arto Lehtiniemi

Arto Lehtiniemi 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: 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: 20220014726
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Miikka VILERMO, Arto LEHTINIEMI
  • Patent number: 11221821
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Artturi Leppanen, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 11223925
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to: based on (i) captured spatial audio content of a scene comprising audio that is associated with information indicative of at least a direction in the scene from which said audio was captured; and (ii) visual focus information comprising information indicative of at least a first part of the scene on which corresponding captured visual imagery of the scene is focused for presentation to a user; provide for presentation of the captured spatial audio content to accompany the captured visual imagery, the captured spatial audio content presented as spatial audio, the spatial audio content provided for presentation with a spatial audio focus selectively applied to audio captured from a second part of the scene different to the first part, the spatial audio focus comprising an audio-modifying effect to increase the audibility of the audio having a direction corresponding to the second part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Toni Mäkinen, Mikko Heikkinen
  • 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
  • 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: 11210518
    Abstract: An apparatus configured: based on a point of interest identified in one or more instances of virtual reality content comprising at least visual imagery and data to provide a virtual reality space in which the visual imagery is displayed; and based on context information for at least one of the instances of the virtual reality content, the context information defining the extent of a virtual sub-volume of the virtual reality space that includes the point of interest; to provide for display of a virtual-reality-content-review-space to a user comprising a space in which a VR preview of the instances of virtual reality content is displayed at a location spaced from a point of view of the user, the or each VR preview comprising the respective sub-volume defined by the context information for providing the user with an understanding of the virtual reality space around the point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • 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: 20210392434
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving a near-field audio source signal from a near-field microphone (22); receiving a far-field audio signal from an array comprising one or more far-field microphones (23); determining a filter length of a first portion of a room impulse response filter for the near-field microphone, wherein said filter length of said first portion is the same at each of a plurality of frequency bands of the filter and wherein said filter length of said first portion includes a direct acoustic propagation delay; and determining a filter length of a second portion of the room impulse response filter at each of the plurality of frequency bands, wherein the filter length of said second portion is frequency-dependent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Anssi Rämö, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Lasse Laaksonen, Joonas Nikunen
  • Patent number: 11200739
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi Artturi Leppänen, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Johannes Eronen
  • Patent number: 11194329
    Abstract: Apparatuses, computer programs and methods are provided. A first method includes responding to user input, at a wearable user input device, by causing transmission of a radio frequency signal includes a request from a pedestrian wearer of the wearable user input device. The request may be a request to cross a road. A second method includes responding to the user input, provided by the pedestrian wearer of the wearable user input device, by causing motion of a vehicle to change. The motion of the vehicle may be changed in order to enable the pedestrian to cross the road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Ville-Veikko Mattila, Jussi Artturi Leppanen
  • Patent number: 11194439
    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
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Francesco Cricri
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20210321211
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Lasse LAAKSONEN
  • 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: 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: 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