Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving spatial audio capture requirement(s) of one or more user devices; determining position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; generating one or more privacy masks at least partly based on the spatial audio capture requirement(s) and position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; and transmitting the generated privacy masks to the one or more user devices.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating a spatialized audio output based on a user position, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain a user position value; obtain at least one input audio signal and associated metadata enabling a rendering of the at least one input audio signal; generate an intermediate format immersive audio signal based on the at least one input audio signal, the metadata, and the user position value; process the intermediate format immersive audio signal to obtain the at least one spatial parameter and the at least one audio signal; and encode the at least one spatial parameter and the at least one audio signal, wherein the at least one spatial parameter and the at least one audio signal are configured to at least in part generate the spatialized audio output.

Abstract: An apparatus for assisting spatial rendering for room acoustics, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one reverberation parameter; determine at least one reverberation ratio parameter at least based on the obtained at least one reverberation parameter; adjust the at least one reverberation ratio parameter; obtain at least one audio signal; and control late reverberation ratio of the obtained at least one audio signal based on the adjusted at least one reverberation ratio parameter.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed relating to processing of virtual content. In an example embodiment, the method may comprise providing data representing one or more acoustic properties of a virtual scene, the virtual scene being for output to a user device associated with a user and comprising one or more audio sources at respective locations and identifying, based on a position of the user with respect to the one or more audio sources and the one or more acoustic properties of the virtual scene, one or more audio sources not meeting a predetermined criterion. The method may also comprise providing, via a user interface associated with the user device, one or more indicators respectively corresponding to the one or more identified audio sources. Responsive to selection of one of the one or more indicators, the method may also comprise changing the user position in the virtual scene so that the user is closer to the corresponding audio source.

Abstract: An apparatus for assisting spatial rendering in at least two acoustic environments, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain information associated with at least a number of reverberators; determine, based on the information, a set of reverberators from the number of reverberators, the set of reverberators configured to be initialized; generate at least one configuration parameter for at least one of the set of reverberators; initialize the set of reverberators based on the at least one configuration parameter; obtain at least one audio signal; and process the at least one audio signal with the initialized set of reverberators to generate late reverberation during rendering of the processed at least one audio signal.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to: receive, at least, at least one first audio channel and at least one second audio channel, wherein at least one of the at least one first audio channel or the at least one second audio channel comprises spatial audio configured to enable immersive audio communication; determine a format of at least one of the at least one first or the at least one second audio channel to identify which of the received at least one first audio channel and the at least one second audio channel comprises the spatial audio; process the identified at least one audio channel with at least one parameter dependent on the determined format; and render the processed at least one audio channel and another of the at least one first audio channel or the at least one second audio channel.

Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs. The apparatus including circuitry configured for obtaining a spatial audio signal where the spatial audio signal includes at least one participant audio object and at least one private audio object wherein the private audio object is associated with a participant which generated the participant audio object. The apparatus also includes circuitry configured for causing the participant audio object to be rendered in a first spatial location and causing the private audio object to be rendered in a second spatial location so that the rendering of the private audio object is less prominent than the rendering of the participant audio object.

Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one audio signal; obtain at least one anchor parameter associated with the at least one audio signal; obtain information configured to assist in the adaptation of the at least one anchor parameter with at least one further anchor parameter within an audio scene within which the at least one audio signal is to be rendered.

Abstract: An apparatus for immersive audio communication including circuitry configured to: receive at least a first audio data stream and a second audio data stream, wherein at least one of the first and second audio stream includes a spatial audio stream to enable immersive audio during a communication; determine a type of each of the first and second audio streams to identify which of the received first and second audio data streams the spatial audio stream; process the second audio data stream with at least one parameter dependent on the determined type; and render the first audio data stream and the processed second audio data stream.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: means for receiving a data structure for controlling rendering of a sound scene to a user of the apparatus, wherein the data structure specifies one or more positions for initial rendering a new sound object associated with a different user; means for selecting one of the one or more positions specified by the data structure, wherein the means for selecting one of the one or more positions specified by the data structure is configured to select a specified position in dependence upon at least a position of the user; and means for rendering the new sound object at the selected position.

Abstract: The embodiments relate to a method comprising establishing a three-dimensional conversational interaction with one or more receivers; generating a pointcloud relating to a user and capturing audio from one or more audio source; generating conversational scene description comprising at least a first dynamic object describing a virtual space for the three-dimensional conversational interaction, wherein the first dynamic object refers to one or more objects specific to the three-dimensional conversational interaction, wherein said one or more objects comprises at least data relating to transformable pointcloud; audio obtained from said one or more audio source and input obtained from one or more connected devices controlling at least the pointcloud, wherein said objects are linked to each other for seamless manipulation; applying the conversational scene description into a metadata, and transmitting the metadata with the respective audio in realtime to said one or more receivers.

Abstract: The embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods for subpicture encoding. According to an embodiment a method for a sender apparatus comprises receiving (901) image data; partitioning (902) the image data into subpictures; generating (903) a transmission packet comprising said subpictures and a packet header; inserting (904) into the transmission packet a subpicture header comprising information regarding the subpictures; and transmitting (905) the transmission packet to be delivered to a receiver apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described including: determining one of a plurality of audio modes for presentation of first audio to a user based on a location and/or movement of the user within a virtual scene, wherein the first audio includes a plurality of audio tracks located at different locations within the virtual scene; and rendering the first audio to the user in the determined audio mode, wherein: in a first audio mode of the plurality of audio modes, the locations of the audio tracks within the virtual scene are fixed and in a second audio mode of the plurality of audio modes, the locations of the audio tracks within the virtual scene move with the user.

Abstract: A method for generating reverberant audio signals, the method including: obtaining at least one reverberation parameter associated with a first acoustic environment; obtaining at least one audio source located at at least one position outside of the first acoustic environment, the at least one audio source having an associated audio signal; generating at least one parameter for the at least one position of the at least one audio source, related to energy propagation for the at least one audio source; and generating a reverberated audio signal associated with the at least one audio source based on the at least one parameter to adjust the level of the associated audio signal.

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: A method for packing a frame of immersive or omnidirectional content may include: determining one or more head motion statistics for rendering and packing immersive or omnidirectional content; determining a classification of a head motion based, at least partially, on the one or more determined head motion statistics; determining resolution(s) and/or a packing scheme based on determined viewport change rate, extent, change prediction/frequency, etc., as summarized by FIG. 6. If there is little or no head motion, the majority of a frame may be packed with high quality and resolution content of the viewport. If there is a greater amount of head motion, a smaller portion of the frame may be packed with high quality and resolution content of the viewport, and medium/low resolution content may be included with the frame that is associated with non-viewport content.

Abstract: A method comprising: obtaining omnidirectional video media content (800); determining adominant axis for a viewport representation (802); and encoding the omnidirectional video media content by aligning a yaw axis of the omnidirectional video media content with the dominant axis of the viewport representation (804).

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product create a media presentation description with a first representation set and a second representation set. The first representation set belongs to a first adaptation set and the second representation set belongs to a second adaptation set and the first representation set is associated with the first media entity and the second representation set is associated with the second media entity. The method, apparatus and computer program product encode, in the media presentation description, an adaptation and representation grouping descriptor. The adaptation and representation grouping descriptor groups the first representation set with the second representation set based on the grouping type.

Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: encode a protocol data unit set into or along a stream, wherein the protocol data unit set contains at least one protocol data unit; and encode an importance field within a header extension; wherein the importance field indicates whether there is at least one dependency between the protocol data unit set and at least one other protocol data unit set.

Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to: receive, from a first user equipment, at least one real-time transport protocol header extension configured to handle at least one protocol data unit, wherein the at least one real-time transport protocol header extension comprises, at least, one or more application controlled bits; determine whether the one or more application controlled bits are valid; and set values for one or more network controlled bits of the at least one real-time transport protocol header extension based, at least partially, on a determination of whether the one or more application controlled bits are valid, wherein the one or more application controlled bits comprise bits that do not overlap with the one or more network controlled bits.