Patents by Inventor Jussi Leppänen

Jussi Leppänen 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: 11290831
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Miikka Vilermo, Arto Lehtiniemi, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate
  • Publication number: 20220095047
    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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Lasse LAAKSONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20210405771
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program, the apparatus comprising: means for enabling three dimensional content to be rendered; means for determining movement of the apparatus; means for controlling scrolling of the three dimensional content, wherein if the movement of the apparatus is within a first category the three dimensional content is scrolled to correspond to the movement of the apparatus and if the movement of the apparatus is within a second category the three dimensional content is not scrolled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Miikka VILERMO, 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: 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: 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
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20210263636
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a man machine interface configured to provide: a screen that presents information indicative of, at least, a real-time capability of a remote user to access and consume mediated reality content; and a user-selectable option to initiate an action that causes the mediated reality content to become accessible to the remote user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Miikka VILERMO, Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE
  • Publication number: 20210258711
    Abstract: An apparatus, the apparatus comprising means configured to: receive audio content comprising voice audio and ambient audio and directional information indicative of a direction of the at least one sound source and the direction of the remote user relative to the reference point; receive a reference location; provide for presentation of the ambient audio with a first spatial audio effect, based on the directional information, and presentation of the voice audio with a second spatial audio effect, based on the directional information, receive repositioning signalling from the remote user device; and provide for presentation of the audio content using a modification of the first spatial audio effect to reposition an ambient-perceived direction based on the repositioning signalling and/or a modification of the second spatial audio effect to reposition a voice-perceived direction based on the repositioning signalling to increase the spatial separation between the voice-perceived direction and the ambient-perceived
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Lasse LAAKSONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN
  • Patent number: 11076121
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to; based on first video content comprising video imagery being captured by a first camera of a device and second video content comprising video imagery being captured by a second camera of the same device, the first and second video content captured contemporaneously and based on a slow-motion-mode input selecting one of the first and second video content for playback in slow-motion, provide for simultaneous display of: a live, first preview comprising video imagery of a non-selected one of the first and second video content as it is captured and presented at a first play rate substantially equal to a capture rate at which the non-selected video content was captured; and a second preview comprising video imagery of the selected one of the first and second video content presented at a second play rate slower than a capture rate at which the selected video content was captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Miikka Vilermo, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen
  • Publication number: 20210227150
    Abstract: This specification describes: using a first camera of a multi-camera device to obtain first video data of a first region; using a second camera of the multi-camera device to obtain second video data of a second region; generating a multi-camera video output from the first and second video data using a first video mapping to map the first video data to a first portion of the multi-camera video output and using a second video mapping to map the second video data to a second portion of the multi-camera video output; and generating an audio output from obtained audio data, the audio output comprising an audio output having a directional component within the first portion of the video output and an audio output having a directional component within the second portion of the video output, wherein generating the audio output comprises using a first audio mapping to map audio data having a directional component within the first region to the audio output having a directional component within the first portion of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Antti ERONEN
  • Publication number: 20210227320
    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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Lasse LAAKSONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN
  • Patent number: 11069137
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Sujeet Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen
  • Patent number: 11055057
    Abstract: In respect of virtual reality content of a scene for presentation to a user in a virtual reality (VR) space, the VR content comprising spatial audio captured by an audio capture device at an audio capture location, and based on a virtual location of a user relative to a virtual audio capture location in the virtual reality space that corresponds to the audio capture location; providing for audible presentation of the spatial audio when the virtual location is within a threshold distance with the spatial audio effect such that the one or more sounds are perceived to originate from one or more directions in the virtual reality space in corresponding to the directional information; and providing for audible presentation of the spatial audio when the virtual location is beyond the threshold distance such the one or more sounds are audibly presented with an ambient audio effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppänen, Juha Arrasvuori
  • Publication number: 20210157406
    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: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Mikko-Ville LAITINEN