Patents by Inventor Mikko Tammi
Mikko Tammi 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: 20180206054Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program wherein the method includes: obtaining at least three ambient audio signals wherein at least one of the ambient audio signals is to be processed with a first directional transfer function pair and at least one other of the ambient audio signals is to be processed with a second directional transfer function pair wherein the directional transfer function pairs to be used are based on target directions of the ambient audio signals; determining a change of the target direction for the at least one ambient audio signal to an updated target direction; selecting an updated directional transfer function pair associated with the updated target direction wherein the updated directional transfer function pair is selected from a plurality of directional transfer functions and the updated directional transfer function pair is more closely associated with the updated target direction than the first directional transfer function pair; and processing the at least one ambient audio sigType: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Mikko-Ville Laitinen, Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi
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Publication number: 20180192249Abstract: A method comprising determining an interaction navigational location, causing display of a perspective image that depicts a view of a portion of map information from the interaction navigational location, causing display of a video region indicator that indicates that video content is available at a video navigational location, the video content depicting a view of a portion of the map information from the video navigational location, determining that the interaction navigational location has changed such the interaction navigational location corresponds with the video navigational location, and causing rendering of the video content based, at least in part, on the interaction navigational location corresponding with the video navigational location is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Arto LEHTINIEMI, Lasse LAAKSONEN, Miikka VILERMO, Mikko TAMMI
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Publication number: 20180182146Abstract: A method including causing display of a first visual information that is a view from a first geographical location, receiving, by the apparatus, an indication of availability of a second visual information that is a view from a second geographical location, the second geographical location being in a first direction from the first geographical location, determining a position in the first visual information that corresponds with the first direction, and causing display of at least a portion of the second visual information such that the portion of the second visual information overlays the first visual information at the position in the first visual information is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Lasse LAAKSONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Mikko TAMMI, Miikka VILERMO
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Publication number: 20180146316Abstract: A method comprising: causing targeting of a message to a first sub-set of users that receive messages, wherein the message is not targeted to a second sub-set of users that receive messages; and causing different spatial rendering of the message to the first sub-set of users compared to the second sub-set of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi, Arto Lehtiniemi
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Patent number: 9788119Abstract: An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least two audio signals; a frequency domain transformer configured to transform the at least two audio signals into a frequency domain representation of the at least two signals; a spatial covariance processor configured to generate an observed spatial covariance matrix from the frequency domain representations of the at least two audio signals; a beamformer configured to generate a spatial covariance matrix model comprising at least one beamformer kernel; a matrix factorizer configured to generate a linear magnitude mode! of audio objects; to combine the spatial covariance matrix model and the linear magnitude model; and further configured to determine at least one combination parameter, such that the at least one parameter for the combination attempts to optimise the combination; and a separator configured to cluster the audio objects based on the at least one combination parameter to create separated audio sources.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi, Joonas Nikunen, Tuomas Virtanen
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Patent number: 9781507Abstract: An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least two groups of at least two audio signals; a first audio former configured to generate a first formed audio signal from a first of the at least two groups of at least two audio signals; a second audio former configured to generate a second formed audio signal from the second of the at least two groups of at least two audio signals; an audio analyzer configured to analyze the first formed audio signal and the second formed audio signal to determine at least one audio source and an associated audio source signal; and an audio signal synthesizer configured to generate at least one output audio signal based on the at least one audio source and the associated audio source signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Jorma Mäkinen, Anu Huttunen, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Publication number: 20170153788Abstract: A method comprising causing display of a representation of a three dimensional model, receiving information indicative of a first multiple implement input that is associated with a first number of implements, determining that the first multiple implement input is a non-depth multiple implement input based on the first number of implements, determining a first width and a first height in the three dimensional model based on the non-depth multiple implement input, receiving information indicative of a second multiple implement input that is associated with a second number of implements, the second number being different from the first number, determining that the second multiple implement input is a depth multiple implement input based on the second number of implements, and determining a second width, a second height, and a second depth in the three dimensional model based on the depth multiple implement input is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Miikka VILERMO, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Mikko TAMMI, Lasse LAAKSONEN
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Publication number: 20170150062Abstract: A method comprising receiving first camera information from a first camera module that is configured to face in a first camera direction, causing display of at least part of the first camera information, receiving information indicative of a zoom input that corresponds with a zoom direction that signifies zooming out of the first camera information, determining that the zoom input is indicative of zooming beyond a zoom out threshold associated with the first camera information, receiving second camera information from a second camera module that is configured to face in a second camera direction based, at least in part, on the determination that the zoom input is indicative of zooming beyond the zoom out threshold, and causing display of at least part of the second camera information is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2017Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Toni Makinen, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Patent number: 9632586Abstract: A method for an audio driver user interface comprising: capturing at least two audio signals (1 1, 14, 101); determining a trajectory of an audio source from the at least two audio signals (103); and generating a user interface input dependent on the trajectory of the audio source (105).Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Ravi Shenoy, Erika Reponen, Mikko Tammi, Anssi Rämö
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Patent number: 9602732Abstract: A method comprising receiving first camera information from a first camera module that is configured to face in a first camera direction, causing display of at least part of the first camera information, receiving information indicative of a zoom input that corresponds with a zoom direction that signifies zooming out of the first camera information, determining that the zoom input is indicative of zooming beyond a zoom out threshold associated with the first camera information, receiving second camera information from a second camera module that is configured to face in a second camera direction based, at least in part, on the determination that the zoom input is indicative of zooming beyond the zoom out threshold, and causing display of at least part of the second camera information is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Toni Mäkinen, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Patent number: 9570081Abstract: It is inter alia disclosed to provide a left signal representation associated with a left audio channel and a right signal representation associated with a right audio channel, each of the left and right signal representations being associated with a plurality of subbands of a frequency range, and to provide directional information associated with at least one subband of the plurality of subbands associated with the left and the right signal representation, the directional information being at least partially indicative of a direction of a sound source with respect to the left and right audio channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi
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Publication number: 20160351191Abstract: A method comprising receiving audio information by way of a plurality of microphones comprised by an apparatus, determining at least one spatial audio property of the audio information in relation to the apparatus, determining an operational directive based, at least in part, on the spatial audio property, and performing one or more operations in conformance with the operational directive is apparatusType: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: Miikka VILERMO, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Lasse LAAKSONEN, Mikko TAMMI
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Publication number: 20160299738Abstract: An apparatus comprising: an image element determiner configured to determine at least one visual image element; a spatial audio analyser configured to determine, using at least two audio signals, at least one audio source with a location associated with the at least one visual image element; a user interface controller configured to provide at least one control input associated with the at least one visual element, and an audio processor configured to process the at least one audio source to change at least one audio characteristic of the at least one audio source based on the at least one control input.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2013Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Toni Henrik Mäkinen, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Tapani Vilermo
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Publication number: 20160266654Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for: associating an item in media content with a spatial location, receiving a user input corresponding to the spatial location and in response to receiving the user input, providing contextual information relating to the item, wherein the contextual information is dependent upon a previous occurrence of the item within the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Lasse Laaksonen, Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi
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Publication number: 20160073198Abstract: An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least two audio signals; a frequency domain transformer configured to transform the at least two audio signals into a frequency domain representation of the at least two signals; a spatial covariance processor configured to generate an observed spatial covariance matrix from the frequency domain representations of the at least two audio signals; a beamformer configured to generate a spatial covariance matrix model comprising at least one beamformer kernel; a matrix factorizer configured to generate a linear magnitude mode! of audio objects; to combine the spatial covariance matrix model and the linear magnitude model; and further configured to determine at least one combination parameter, such that the at least one parameter for the combination attempts to optimise the combination; and a separator configured to cluster the audio objects based on the at least one combination parameter to create separated audio sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2013Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Miikka VILERMO, Mikko TAMMI, Joonas NIKUNEN, Tuomas VIRTANEN
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Publication number: 20160041806Abstract: Apparatus, a method and a computer program are provided. The method comprises: running, on a computing device having a multitasking environment with a foreground and a background, a first application in the foreground; running a second application on the computing device, in the background, concurrently with the first application; and responding to user input by enabling audio from the second application to be output by one or more loudspeakers while the second application remains in the background of the multitasking environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Publication number: 20160044410Abstract: An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least two groups of at least two audio signals; a first audio former configured to generate a first formed audio signal from a first of the at least two groups of at least two audio signals; a second audio former configured to generate a second formed audio signal from the second of the at least two groups of at least two audio signals; an audio analyser configured to analyse the first formed audio signal and the second formed audio signal to determine at least one audio source and an associated audio source signal; and an audio signal synthesiser configured to generate at least one output audio signal based on the at least one audio source and the associated audio source signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2013Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Jorma Mäkinen, Anu Huttunen, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Publication number: 20150371643Abstract: An apparatus comprising a channel analyser configured to analyse an audio signal comprising at least two audio channels to determine at least one parameter associated with a difference between the at least two audio channels; an encoding mode determiner configured to select a multichannel audio signal encoding dependent on the at least one parameter; and a channel encoder configured to encode the audio signal with the multichannel audio signal encoding.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: Nokia CorporationInventors: Anssi Ramo, Adriana Vasilache, Lasse Laaksonen, Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi
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Publication number: 20150326793Abstract: A method comprising receiving first camera information from a first camera module that is configured to face in a first camera direction, causing display of at least part of the first camera information, receiving information indicative of a zoom input that corresponds with a zoom direction that signifies zooming out of the first camera information, determining that the zoom input is indicative of zooming beyond a zoom out threshold associated with the first camera information, receiving second camera information from a second camera module that is configured to face in a second camera direction based, at least in part, on the determination that the zoom input is indicative of zooming beyond the zoom out threshold, and causing display of at least part of the second camera information is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Toni Mäkinen, Mikko Tammi, Miikka Vilermo
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Patent number: 9082397Abstract: An apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to select at least two single frequency components; generate an indicator, the indicator being configured to represent the at least two single frequency components and is configured to be dependent on the frequency separation between the two single frequency components.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2007Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Mikko Tammi, Adriana Vasilache, Anssi Ramo