Patents by Inventor Jussi Leppanen
Jussi Leppanen 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).
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Publication number: 20230171557Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling audio content rendering. An example apparatus comprising means for receiving a bitstream which comprises audio content; means for receiving dynamic content independent from the bitstream; means for receiving at least one instruction for the dynamic content from at least one of: the received bitstream or the received dynamic content; and means for rendering audio with a renderer based upon the audio content of the bitstream, the received dynamic content, and the at least one instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Anttl ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN
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Patent number: 11644528Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Tapani Pihlajakuja, Jussi Leppänen
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Patent number: 11631422Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
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Patent number: 11627427Abstract: An apparatus comprising: means for causing selection of spatial audio content in dependence upon a position of a user in a virtual space; • means for causing rendering, for consumption by the user, of the selected spatial audio content including a first spatial audio content; • means for causing, after user consumption of the first spatial audio content, recording of data relating to the first spatial audio content; • means for using, at a later time, the recorded data to detect a new event relating to the first spatial audio content, the new event comprises that the first spatial audio content has been adapted for which a new spatial content is created, for example in the form of a limited preview; and • means for providing a user-selectable option to enable rendering, for consumption by the user, of the first spatial audio content by rendering a simplified sound object representative, which can be a downmix or clustered audio objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
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Patent number: 11611842Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured for: obtaining media content, wherein the media content includes at least one object data; obtaining priority content information, the priority content information including a priority identification identifying and classifying the at least one object; rendering the at least one object based on the priority content information.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Kari Juhani Jarvinen, Jussi Leppanen, Tapani Pihlajakuja, Adriana Vasilache
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Publication number: 20230066507Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Mikko HEIKKINEN
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Patent number: 11587202Abstract: A method comprising: processing a recording of a scene to recognise a predetermined user command event performed within the scene; and automatically controlling image processing of a captured image of the scene to adapt the captured image, in dependence on said recognition of the predetermined user command event performed within the scene.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Kimmo Roimela
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Patent number: 11570569Abstract: 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 content lock information for a content lock, wherein the content lock information enables control of audio signal processing associated with audio signals related to one or more audio sources based on a position and/or orientation input.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Adriana Vasilache, Lasse Laaksonen, Kari Jarvinen, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppanen
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Publication number: 20230014810Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Jussi LEPPANEN, Miikka VILERMO, Arto LEHTINIEMI
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Patent number: 11551452Abstract: An apparatus configured to, based on first imagery (301) of at least part of a body of a user (204), and contemporaneously captured second imagery (302) of a scene, the second imagery comprising at least a plurality of images taken over time, and based on expression-time information indicative of when a user expression of the user (204) occurs, provide a time window (303) temporally extending from a first time (t?1) prior to the time (t) of the expression-time information, to a second time (t?5) comprising a time equal to or prior to the first time (t?1), the time window (303) provided to identify at least one expression-causing image (305) from the plurality of images of the second imagery (302) that was captured in said time window, and provide for recordal of the at least one expression-causing image (305) with at least one expression-time image (306) comprising at least one image from the first imagery (301).Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Juha Arrasvuori
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Publication number: 20230007427Abstract: 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).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Kari JÄRVINEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Lasse LAAKSONEN
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Patent number: 11546718Abstract: A method including enabling a first user having a first user device to communicate with one or more second users having one or more second user devices via a network, wherein each user has a spatial position within a virtual space, such that, for each user within the virtual space, all other users within the virtual space have a relative spatial position; providing spatial audio data from the first user device to the one or more second user devices and receiving spatial audio data at the first user device from the one or more second user devices, such that each user is provided with audio from the other users in the respective relative spatial positions of the other users; and enabling a third user having a third user device to communicate with the first user and the one or more second users via the first user device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Mikko-Ville Laitinen
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Patent number: 11521591Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Jussi Leppanen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Tapani Pihlajakuja
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Patent number: 11514108Abstract: A method comprising: enabling user definition of a search parameter; causing searching of content to find content having the search parameter and to provide the found content having the search parameter as search results; and causing rendering of the search results, using virtual reality, at different positions in a three dimensional space.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
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Publication number: 20220366918Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Tapani PIHLAJAKUJA, Kari JARVINEN, Adriana VASILACHE
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Patent number: 11503226Abstract: 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 theType: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Antti Eronen
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Patent number: 11490217Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a computer program are provided. The method includes rendering visual augmented reality content for display on a display of a hand-held electronic device, based on a location of the hand-held electronic device; estimate a location of a user of the hand-held electronic device, different from the location of the hand-held electronic device; and rendering aural augmented reality content for output to the user of the hand-held electronic device, based on the location of the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Jussi Leppanen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen
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Patent number: 11477598Abstract: 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-perceivedType: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
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Publication number: 20220326904Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: providing a user interface for enabling a user to select audio content, comprising an arrangement of multiple user-selectable visual elements at positions in the user interface that are indicative of different orientations from a user and have an appearance dependent upon audio content for the respective orientations; and responding to selection of a user-selectable visual element at a position in the user interface indicative of an orientation from the user to select, for processing, audio content for the orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Miikka VILERMO
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Publication number: 20220321997Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Miikka VILERMO, Toni MÄKINEN