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).

  • Publication number: 20230171557
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Anttl ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN
  • Patent number: 11644528
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Tapani Pihlajakuja, Jussi Leppänen
  • Patent number: 11631422
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
  • Patent number: 11627427
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
  • Patent number: 11611842
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Kari Juhani Jarvinen, Jussi Leppanen, Tapani Pihlajakuja, Adriana Vasilache
  • Publication number: 20230066507
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Antti ERONEN, Mikko HEIKKINEN
  • Patent number: 11587202
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Kimmo Roimela
  • Patent number: 11570569
    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 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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Adriana Vasilache, Lasse Laaksonen, Kari Jarvinen, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppanen
  • Publication number: 20230014810
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPANEN, Miikka VILERMO, Arto LEHTINIEMI
  • Patent number: 11551452
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Juha Arrasvuori
  • Publication number: 20230007427
    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).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Kari JÄRVINEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Lasse LAAKSONEN
  • Patent number: 11546718
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Mikko-Ville Laitinen
  • Patent number: 11521591
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppanen, Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Tapani Pihlajakuja
  • Patent number: 11514108
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
  • Publication number: 20220366918
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Tapani PIHLAJAKUJA, Kari JARVINEN, Adriana VASILACHE
  • Patent number: 11503226
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Antti Eronen
  • Patent number: 11490217
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Leppanen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen
  • Patent number: 11477598
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
  • Publication number: 20220326904
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Miikka VILERMO
  • Publication number: 20220321997
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Antti ERONEN, Jussi LEPPÄNEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Miikka VILERMO, Toni MÄKINEN