Patents by Inventor C. Phillip Brown

C. Phillip Brown 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: 12273702
    Abstract: A system and method of modifying a binaural signal using headtracking information. The system calculates a delay, a first filter response, and a second filter response, and applies these to the left and right components of the binaural signal according to the headtracking information. The system may also apply headtracking to parametric binaural signals. In this manner, headtracking may be applied to pre-rendered binaural audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: C. Phillip Brown, Joshua Brandon Lando, Mark F. Davis, Alan J. Seefeldt, David Matthew Cooper, Dirk Jeroen Breebaart, Rhonda Wilson
  • Publication number: 20250045010
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for a method of rendering audio for playback through headphones comprising receiving digital audio content, receiving binaural rendering metadata generated by an authoring tool processing the received digital audio content, receiving playback metadata generated by a playback device, and combining the binaural rendering metadata and playback metadata to optimize playback of the digital audio content through the headphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas R. TSINGOS, Rhonda WILSON, Sunil BHARITKAR, C. Phillip BROWN, Alan J. SEEFELDT, Remi AUDFRAY
  • Publication number: 20250048051
    Abstract: A method (1000) of generating a plurality of audio channels from audio containing height and non-height audio channels for playing back them with an immersive loudspeaker system of with at least one height loudspeaker (5) inside a listening environment, comprising: applying (1500) a virtual height filter (1300) to a portion of each height channel (1010) for, when playing back the height channel by one of the loudspeakers, attenuating spectral components of the height channel directly emanating from said loudspeaker (1;2;3;4) and for amplifying spectral components of the height channel reflected from a roof or an area close to the roof inside the listening environment, to generate a plurality of virtual height filtered audio signals which are added to the corresponding non-height audio channels for playback by corresponding loudspeakers; and playing back the remaining portions of each height audio channel with the at least one height loudspeaker (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicants: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: C. Phillip BROWN, Eytan RUBIN, Jacobo GIRALT, Michal Stanislaw RYBCZYNSKI, Thomas ZIEGLER
  • Patent number: 12164832
    Abstract: Media input audio data corresponding to a media stream and microphone input audio data from at least one microphone may be received. A first level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the media input audio data, as well as a second level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the microphone input audio data, may be determined. Media output audio data and microphone output audio data may be produced by adjusting levels of one or more of the first and second plurality of frequency bands based on the perceived loudness of the microphone input audio data, of the microphone output audio data, of the media output audio data and the media input audio data. One or more processes may be modified upon receipt of a mode-switching indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alexander, Chunjian Li, Joshua Brandon Lando, Alan J. Seefeldt, C. Phillip Brown, Dirk Jeroen Breebaart
  • Publication number: 20240381046
    Abstract: Some methods may involve receiving a first content stream that includes first audio signals, rendering the first audio signals to produce first audio playback signals, generating first calibration signals, generating first modified audio playback signals by inserting the first calibration signals into the first audio playback signals, and causing a loudspeaker system to play back the first modified audio playback signals, to generate first audio device playback sound. The method(s) may involve receiving microphone signals corresponding to at least the first audio device playback sound and to second through Nth audio device playback sound corresponding to second through Nth modified audio playback signals (including second through Nth calibration signals) played back by second through Nth audio devices, extracting second through Nth calibration signals from the microphone signals and estimating at least one acoustic scene metric based, at least partly, on the second through Nth calibration signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Mark R.P. THOMAS, Benjamin John SOUTHWELL, Avery BRUNI, Olha Michelle TOWNSEND, Daniel ARTEAGA, Davide SCAINI, Christopher Graham HINES, Alan J. SEEFELDT, David GUNAWAN, C. Phillip Brown
  • Publication number: 20240373184
    Abstract: A method (200) of processing audio in an immersive audio format comprising at least one height audio channel, comprising: obtaining (250) two height audio signals from at least a portion of the at least one height audio channel: modifying (270) a relative phase between the two height audio signals in frequency bands in which phase differences are predominantly out of phase to obtain two phase modified height audio signals: and playing back (290) the processed audio comprising the two phase modified height audio signals with at least two audio loudspeakers. The phase differences occur as a result of having monaural signals emanated from two audio loudspeakers at one or more listening positions symmetrically off-center with respect to the at least two loudspeakers. laterally spaced with respect to each of said one or more listening positions. The method allows perception of sound height/elevation without using overhead speakers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: C. Phillip Brown, Michael J. Smithers
  • Publication number: 20240284104
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of rendering audio. A binaural signal is split on an amplitude weighting basis into a front binaural signal and a rear binaural signal, based on perceived position information of the audio. In this manner, the front-back differentiation of the binaural signal is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark F. DAVIS, Nicolas R. TSINGOS, C. Phillip BROWN
  • Patent number: 12061835
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for a method of rendering audio for playback through headphones comprising receiving digital audio content, receiving binaural rendering metadata generated by an authoring tool processing the received digital audio content, receiving playback metadata generated by a playback device, and combining the binaural rendering metadata and playback metadata to optimize playback of the digital audio content through the headphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas R. Tsingos, Rhonda Wilson, Sunil Bharitkar, C. Phillip Brown, Alan J. Seefeldt, Remi Audfray
  • Publication number: 20240187806
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a binaural virtualization by upmixing the left and right input signals to produce left, right, and center channels, mixing the left and right input signals with the upmixed left and right channels respectively at a proportion given by a center-only reverb amount value, then reverberating the output of the mixing prior to virtualization. This can be further simplified by mode switching between two different filtering modes: a standard mode and a simplified mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: C. Phillip Brown, Yuxing Hao, Xuemei Yu, Zilong Yang
  • Publication number: 20240114308
    Abstract: Some methods involve receiving, by a control system that is configured for implementing a plurality of renderers, audio data and listening configuration data for a plurality of listening configurations, each listening configuration of the plurality of listening configurations corresponding to a listening position and a listening orientation in an audio environment, and rendering, by each renderer and according to the listening configuration data, the received audio data to obtain a set of renderer-specific loudspeaker feed signals for a corresponding listening configuration. Each renderer may be configured to render the audio data for a different listening configuration. Some such methods may involve decomposing each set of renderer-specific loudspeaker feed signals into a renderer-specific set of frequency bands and combining the renderer-specific frequency bands of each renderer to produce an output set of loudspeaker feed signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Alan J. SEEFELDT, C. Phillip BROWN
  • Publication number: 20240107255
    Abstract: Some methods involve receiving, by a control system configured for implementing a plurality of Tenderers, audio data and listening configuration data for a plurality of listening configurations, each listening configuration of the plurality of listening configurations corresponding to a listening position and a listening orientation in an audio environment, and rendering, by each Tenderer and according to the listening configuration data, the received audio data to obtain a set of Tenderer-specific loudspeaker feed signals for a corresponding listening configuration. Each Tenderer may be configured to render the audio data for a different listening configuration. Some such methods may involve decomposing each set of renderer-specific loudspeaker feed signals into a Tenderer-specific set of frequency bands and combining the renderer-specific frequency bands of each Tenderer to produce an output set of loudspeaker feed signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Alan J. SEEFELDT, C. Phillip BROWN
  • Patent number: 11924619
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of rendering audio. A binaural signal is split on an amplitude weighting basis into a front binaural signal and a rear binaural signal, based on perceived position information of the audio. In this manner, the front-back differentiation of the binaural signal is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark F. Davis, Nicolas R. Tsingos, C. Phillip Brown
  • Publication number: 20240056760
    Abstract: A method of audio processing includes performing spatial analysis on a binaural signal to estimate level differences and phase differences characteristic of a binaural filter of the binaural signal, performing object extraction on the binaural audio signal using the estimated level and phase differences to generate a left/right main component signal and a left/right residual component signal. The system may process the left/right main and left/right residual components differently using different object processing parameters for e.g. repositioning, equalization, compression, upmixing, channel remapping or storage to generate a processed binaural signal that provides an improved listening experience. Repositioning may be based on head tracking sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Dirk Jeroen BREEBAART, Giulio CENGARLE, C. Phillip BROWN
  • Publication number: 20230385013
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for a method of rendering audio for playback through headphones comprising receiving digital audio content, receiving binaural rendering metadata generated by an authoring tool processing the received digital audio content, receiving playback metadata generated by a playback device, and combining the binaural rendering metadata and playback metadata to optimize playback of the digital audio content through the headphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas R. TSINGOS, Rhonda WILSON, Sunil BHARITKAR, C. Phillip BROWN, Alan J. SEEFELDT, Remi AUDFRAY
  • Publication number: 20230359430
    Abstract: Media input audio data corresponding to a media stream and microphone input audio data from at least one microphone may be received. A first level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the media input audio data, as well as a second level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the microphone input audio data, may be determined. Media output audio data and microphone output audio data may be produced by adjusting levels of one or more of the first and second plurality of frequency bands based on the perceived loudness of the microphone input audio data, of the microphone output audio data, of the media output audio data and the media input audio data. One or more processes may be modified upon receipt of a mode-switching indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alexander, Chunjian Li, Joshua Brandon Lando, Alan J. Seefeldt, C. Phillip Brown, Dirk Jeroen Breebaart
  • Patent number: 11740859
    Abstract: Media input audio data corresponding to a media stream and microphone input audio data from at least one microphone may be received. A first level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the media input audio data, as well as a second level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the microphone input audio data, may be determined. Media output audio data and microphone output audio data may be produced by adjusting levels of one or more of the first and second plurality of frequency bands based on the perceived loudness of the microphone input audio data, of the microphone output audio data, of the media output audio data and the media input audio data. One or more processes may be modified upon receipt of a mode-switching indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alexander, Chunjian Li, Joshua Brandon Lando, Alan J. Seefeldt, C. Phillip Brown, Dirk Jeroen Breebaart
  • Patent number: 11681490
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for a method of rendering audio for playback through headphones comprising receiving digital audio content, receiving binaural rendering metadata generated by an authoring tool processing the received digital audio content, receiving playback metadata generated by a playback device, and combining the binaural rendering metadata and playback metadata to optimize playback of the digital audio content through the headphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicolas R. Tsingos, Rhonda Wilson, Sunil Bharitkar, C. Phillip Brown, Alan J. Seefeldt, Remi Audfray
  • Publication number: 20230091218
    Abstract: A system and method of modifying a binaural signal using headtracking information. The system calculates a delay, a first filter response, and a second filter response, and applies these to the left and right components of the binaural signal according to the headtracking information. The system may also apply headtracking to parametric binaural signals. In this manner, headtracking may be applied to pre-rendered binaural audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: C. Phillip Brown, Joshua Brandon Lando, Mark F. Davis, Alan J. Seefeldt, David Matthew Cooper, Dirk Jeroen Breebaart, Rhonda Wilson
  • Publication number: 20230074817
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of rendering audio. A binaural signal is split on an amplitude weighting basis into a front binaural signal and a rear binaural signal, based on perceived position information of the audio. In this manner, the front-back differentiation of the binaural signal is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark F. DAVIS, Nicolas R. TSINGOS, C. Phillip BROWN
  • Patent number: 11553296
    Abstract: A system and method of modifying a binaural signal using headtracking information. The system calculates a delay, a first filter response, and a second filter response, and applies these to the left and right components of the binaural signal according to the headtracking information. The system may also apply headtracking to parametric binaural signals. In this manner, headtracking may be applied to pre-rendered binaural audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: C. Phillip Brown, Joshua Brandon Lando, Mark F. Davis, Alan J. Seefeldt, David Matthew Cooper, Dirk Jeroen Breebaart, Rhonda Wilson