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).

  • Publication number: 20200344564
    Abstract: An apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: generate audio effect information, wherein the audio effect information enables control of audio signal processing associated with audio signals related to one or more audio sources based on at least a zooming factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Lasse LAAKSONEN, Antti ERONEN, Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Kari JARVINEN
  • Patent number: 10820120
    Abstract: An apparatus for identifying which sound sources are associated with which microphone audio signals, the apparatus including a processor configured to: determine/receive a position/orientation of at least one sound source relative to a microphone array; receive at least one microphone audio signal, each microphone audio signal received from a microphone; receive an audio-focussed audio signal from the microphone array, wherein the audio-focussed audio signal is directed from the microphone array towards the one of the at least one sound source so as to enhance the audio-focussed audio signal; compare the audio-focussed audio signal against each microphone audio signal to identify a match between one of the at least one microphone audio signal and the audio focussed audio signal; and associate the one of the at least one microphone with the at least one sound source, based on the identified match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppanen, Antti Eronen, Francesco Cricri, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Publication number: 20200326402
    Abstract: An apparatus caused to, in respect of determination of a direction towards an object in a space, the object having a tag capable of emitting a wireless signal for reception by a locator of a positioning system configured to determine the direction towards the tag based on the wireless signal, based on object orientation information comprising the orientation of the object as viewed by a camera capturing visual imagery of the space and predetermined tag position information comprising the position on the object where the tag is attached, provide for determination of at least whether or not the object is oriented such that the tag substantially faces the locator and thereby control of the positioning system in the determination of at least a viability of the wireless signal for determining the direction towards the object, the tag substantially facing the locator indicative of the viability of the wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Francesco Cricrì, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
  • Patent number: 10803317
    Abstract: A method comprising: rendering a first media scene based upon media content provided by a content-rendering application via one or more rendering devices worn by the user; determining a priority for an event that occurs near the user, the event being independent of the content-rendering application; and automatically modifying the rendered first media scene, to render a modified second media scene based at least in part upon media content provided by the content-rendering application and at least in part upon other media content associated with the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Francesco Cricri, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppänen, Juha Arrasvuori
  • Publication number: 20200322688
    Abstract: An apparatus caused to: in respect of video imagery of an event at which one or more commenting users are present and have submitted comments, a location of the or each of the one or more commenting users visible in the video imagery; based on a current view of the video imagery provided for display to a user and at least one comment having location information associated therewith indicative of one or more of (i) the location, at the time of making the comment, of the commenting user who submitted the comment at the event, (ii) a location, at the event, specified by the commenting user who submitted the comment at the event; provide for display of the comment overlaid over the current view of the video imagery, the comment displayed in the current view of the video imagery at a position that corresponds to the location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Juha Arrasvuori
  • Patent number: 10798518
    Abstract: Apparatus configured to, based on visual and audio content captured of a scene comprising at least one audio source and the content including at least two audio tracks, each audio track comprising audio captured by a respective one of at least two audio capture devices located at different locations in the scene, and audio-capture-direction information indicative of at least the direction towards each of the audio capture devices; provide for display of a user selectable audio-capture-location graphic for each of the audio tracks, wherein each audio-capture-location graphic is associated with one of the audio tracks and visually associated with the audio source wherein the form or position of the audio-capture-location graphics is indicative of the direction towards the audio source capture device and wherein based on selection of one of the audio-capture-location graphics, provide for audible presentation of the audio track associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Juha Arrasvuori
  • Publication number: 20200312025
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for rendering virtual reality content, wherein the virtual reality content comprises a virtual reality object associated with a caption and wherein the caption is rendered within a field of view of a user; determining a level of interest with respect to the virtual reality object; and determining if the caption is to be rendered based at least partly on the determined level of interest associated with the virtual reality object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Sujeet Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen
  • Publication number: 20200310747
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed, comprising means for arranging a plurality of images, represented by image data, into sets, wherein each set comprises images having a related context and the plurality of the images having associated audio data. The means may also be configured to generate, for associating with each set of images, ambient audio data using the associated audio data from a plurality of the images having audio data within the associated set, the ambient audio data being for playback through a user device when one or more images of the associated set are displayed in an image browser of the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Miikka Vilermo
  • Publication number: 20200312347
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed, configured to receive, from first and second spatial audio capture apparatuses, respective first and second composite audio signals comprising components derived from one or more sound sources in a capture space. The apparatus is further configured to identify a position of a user device corresponding to one of first and second areas respectively associated with the positions of the first and second spatial audio capture apparatuses, and to render audio representing the one or more sound sources to the user device, the rendering being performed differently dependent on, for the spatial audio capture apparatus associated with the identified first or second area, whether or not individual audio signals from each of the one or more sound sources can be successfully separated from its composite signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN
  • Patent number: 10791410
    Abstract: A method comprising: causing analysis of a portion of a visual scene; causing modification of a first sound object to modify a spatial extent of the first sound object in dependence upon the analysis of the portion of the visual scene corresponding to the first sound object; and causing rendering of the visual scene and the corresponding sound scene including of the modified first sound object with modified spatial extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Francesco Cricri, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 10789987
    Abstract: A method comprising: causing provision of a visual access menu to enable a user to access video segments of a scene comprising: causing display of at least a portion an image of the scene; causing display, at a first location in the scene, of a first user-selectable menu option that when selected causes access to one or more first video segments of activity at the first location in the scene; and causing display, at a second location in the scene, of a second user-selectable menu option that when selected causes access to one or more second video segments of activity at the second location in the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Publication number: 20200288262
    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: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Jussi LEPPANEN, Tapani PIHLAJAKUJA
  • Patent number: 10768711
    Abstract: A method comprising: enabling viewing by a user of a virtual scene of a virtual space; mapping a three-dimensional gesture of the user to a corresponding three-dimensional gesture in the virtual space; and in response to determining that the corresponding three-dimensional gesture in a virtual space is a first predetermined gesture or predetermined gestures in relation to a first portion of the virtual space, analyzing the virtual space over time to detect an event in the virtual space relating to the first portion of the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Publication number: 20200280816
    Abstract: An apparatus for audio signal rendering, the apparatus including at least one processor configured to: receive at least one microphone audio signal captured by at least one microphone within a capture environment; receive at least one projection audio signal, wherein the at least one projection audio signal is a room-impulse-response filtered at least one microphone audio signal within the capture environment; receive at least one residual audio signal, wherein the at least one residual audio signal is a result of removing the at least one projection audio signal from at least one audio signal captured by a microphone array within the capture environment; and generate at least two volumetric audio signals based on the at least one microphone audio signal, the at least one projection audio signal and the at least one residual audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Jussi LEPPANEN, Tapani PIHLAJAKUJA
  • Patent number: 10764705
    Abstract: A method comprising: causing classification of sound objects, within a rendered virtual space, as a first class of sound object or a second class of sound object in dependence upon historic action of a user within the virtual space; rendering one or more sound objects of the first class according to at least first rules; and rendering one or more sound objects of the second class according to at least second rules, different to the first rules, and a current position of the user within the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Patent number: 10761595
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program is provided. The method comprises: causing display of a panoramic menu in which a first panoramic menu item and a second panoramic menu item are simultaneously displayed, wherein the first panoramic menu item extends beyond a user's field of view and is associated with first mediated reality content, and the second panoramic menu item extends beyond a user's field of view and is associated with second mediated reality content, different from the first mediated reality content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Publication number: 20200275230
    Abstract: An apparatus for audio signal processing audio objects within at least one audio scene, the apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to:define for at least one time period at least one contextual grouping comprising at least two of a plurality of audio objects and at least one further audio object of the plurality of audio objects outside of the at least one contextual grouping, the plurality of audio objects within at least one audio scene; anddefine with respect to the at least one contextual grouping at least one first parameter and/or parameter rule type which is configured to be applied with respect to a common element associated with the at least two of the plurality of audio objects and wherein the at least one first parameter and/or parameter rule type is configured to be applied with respect to individual element associatedwith the at least one further audio object outside of the at least one contextual grouping, the at least one first parameter and/or parameter rule type being applied
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Lasse LAAKSONEN, Mikko TAMMI, Miikka VILERMO, Arto LEHTINIEMI
  • Publication number: 20200273249
    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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Jussi Artturi LEPPÄNEN, Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti Johannes ERONEN
  • Patent number: 10754608
    Abstract: A method including determining and tracking a position of an observed sound source to an observation point at an audio monitoring device; determining an identifier for the observed sound source based upon the determined and tracked position of the observed sound source; receiving distributed audio capture application signals at the audio monitoring device, where the distributed audio capture application signals include at least one audio mixing parameter for individual audio object channels and identifiers for respective audio objects of the individual audio object channels; and associating a first one of the individual audio object channels with the observed sound source based upon the received identifier of the first individual audio object channel and the determined identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Publication number: 20200267492
    Abstract: An apparatus configured, based on virtual reality content for viewing in virtual reality, the virtual reality content comprising visual content for display in a three dimensional virtual reality space and spatial audio content comprising audio for presentation such that it is audibly perceived to originate from one or more particular directions in the virtual reality space corresponding to one or more points or regions in the visual content, the virtual reality content defining at least a ground level of said virtual reality space; and based on display of a birds-eye view of the virtual reality space to a user comprising a view of the visual content substantially downward towards said ground level from a point of view location in said virtual reality space elevated from said ground level; to provide for presentation of said spatial audio content with a spatial audio modification, the spatial audio modification configured to modify the one or more particular directions from which the user perceives the spatial
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi, Arto Lehtiniemi