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.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating at least one distance estimate to at least one sound source within a sound scene comprising the least one sound source, the apparatus configured to: receive at least two audio signals from a microphone array located within the sound scene; receive at least one further audio signal associated with the at least one sound source; determine at least one portion of the at least two audio signals from a microphone array corresponding to the at least one further audio signal associated with the at least one sound source; determine a distance estimate to the at least one sound source based on the at least one portion of the at least two audio signals from a microphone array corresponding to the at least one further audio signal associated with the at least one sound source.

Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured for: in a first-person perspective mediated reality state, rendering mediated reality content as content distributed across a first area of a user's field of view, wherein a point of view of a user determines a point of view within a three-dimensional virtual space and determines at least part of the content distributed across the first area of a user's field of view as a virtual scene; responding to at least one user gesture to enter a spatially consolidated state; and in the spatially consolidated state, rendering the mediated reality content as content distributed across a second area of a user's field of view, wherein the second area is smaller than the first area and the point of view of the user does not determine the content distributed across the second area of a user's field of view.

Abstract: A method comprising: obtaining a first audio direction parameter value for each sub-band of a sub-frame of a frame of an audio signal; obtaining a second audio direction parameter value for the sub-frame of the frame of the audio signal for one or more audio objects associated with said audio signal; and determining a bit-efficient encoding for each first audio direction parameter value of the sub-frame based on a similarity between the first audio direction parameter value for each sub-band and the second audio direction parameter values for the one or more audio objects.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to: obtain media content, wherein the media content comprises at least one audio content; obtain content information, the content information comprising an identification; determine an at least partially reduced rendering of the at least one audio content based, at least partially, on the identification of the at least one audio content; and provide the at least partially reduced rendering of the at least one audio content.

Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured for: displaying content within a viewport; displaying a symbol representing a sound source within the viewport; detecting one or more gestures that place the displayed symbol in the displayed content; disambiguating between a first placement method, performed for the symbol, that locks the sound source to a position that moves with displayed content moving within the viewport and a second placement method performed for the symbol that is different to the first placement method and locks the sound source to a position that does not move with displayed content moving within the viewport, wherein the first placement method includes a disambiguating gesture relative to the viewport, for the symbol, indicating movement of the symbol relative to the viewport that disambiguates the first placement method from the second placement method.

Abstract: There is disclosed inter alia a method for rendering a virtual reality audio scene comprising: receiving information defining a limited area audio scene within the virtual reality audio scene (301), wherein the limited area audio scene defines a sub space of the virtual reality audio scene (304), wherein the information defines the limited area audio scene by defining an extent a user can move within the virtual audio scene; determining if the movement of the user within the limited area audio scene meets a condition of an audio scene change (302); and processing the audio scene change when the movement of the user within the limited area audio scene meets the condition of an audio scene change (306).

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.

Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to: obtain media content, wherein the media content comprises at least one audio content; obtain priority content information, the priority content information comprising a priority identification identifying and classifying the at least one audio content; determine to at least partially reduce rendering of the at least one audio content based, at least partially, on a quota associated with the priority identification of the at least one audio content; and render the at least one audio content based, at least partially, on the priority content information and the determining.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program is described comprising: generating or obtaining at least one augmented reality image for presentation to a user, the augmented reality images comprising one or more virtual objects, displays or devices of an augmented reality system; attenuating real-world audio of the augmented reality system; and controlling the provision of audio to the user in at least one audio focus or beamform direction relating to at least one selected real-world object of the augmented reality system.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abstract: A head-mounted audio output apparatus comprising: a hybrid audio system comprising multiple transducers, wherein the hybrid audio system is configured to render sound for a user of the apparatus into different audio output channels using different associated transducers; means for automatically changing a cut-off frequency of a first one of the audio output channels in dependence upon the transducer associated with the first one of the audio output channels.

Abstract: A method comprising: rendering, in a first state, any portion of content for rendering that is not defined as restricted content and rendering, in a second state, different to the first state, any portion of the content for rendering that is defined as restricted content; and using a combination of a user perception direction and an observation field of perception to define restricted content.