Patents by Inventor Toni MÄKINEN
Toni MÄKINEN 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: 20240135944Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: controlling rendering of first environmental audio captured from an environment of a first user to a second user in dependence upon second environmental audio that is being captured from an environment of the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Mikko Tapio TAMMI, Toni MÄKINEN, Roope Olavi JÄRVINEN, Riitta Elina VÄÄNÄNEN
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Publication number: 20240121342Abstract: Example embodiments relate to conference calls. In a method, there may be provided audio data and associated classification data from a plurality of user devices as part of a conference call, the plurality of user devices including at least a first user device and a second user device. The classification data may be indicative of one of a plurality of predetermined sound types represented by the associated audio data in a current time frame. The method may comprise determining that the audio data provided by the first user device is associated with a dominant speaker. The method may comprise controlling transmission of the audio data as part of the conference call, including preventing transmission of audio data provided by at least the second user device based on its associated classification data being indicative of a restricted sound type and the first user device being associated with a dominant speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Mikko Tapio TAMMI, Riitta Elina VÄÄNÄNEN, Toni MÄKINEN, Roope Olavi JÄRVINEN
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Patent number: 11882401Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Miikka Vilermo, Toni Mäkinen
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Patent number: 11877127Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: capturing an audio scene using multiple microphones; determining that the captured audio scene has unacceptable detected noise; in dependence upon determining that the captured audio scene has unacceptable detected noise, searching both different sets of one or more microphones and different physical rotation angles of the microphones to find a combination of a first set of one or more microphones and a first physical rotation angle of the microphones that captures the audio scene with acceptable detected noise; and controlling the physical rotation angle of the microphones to be the first physical rotation angle of the microphones and capturing the audio scene using the combination of the first set of one or more microphones and the first physical rotation angle of the microphones.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Miikka Vilermo, Anssi Rämö, Toni Mäkinen
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Patent number: 11809641Abstract: A method comprising determining that an orientation of a mobile device is a flat orientation, determining a context of the mobile device, determining movement of the mobile device, and based on the orientation, context and movement of the device, determining orientation of visual content rendered on a display of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Miikka Tapani Vilermo, Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi, Anssi Sakari Rämö, Toni Mäkinen
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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
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Publication number: 20220272471Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: capturing an audio scene using multiple microphones; determining that the captured audio scene has unacceptable detected noise; in dependence upon determining that the captured audio scene has unacceptable detected noise, searching both different sets of one or more microphones and different physical rotation angles of the microphones to find a combination of a first set of one or more microphones and a first physical rotation angle of the microphones that captures the audio scene with acceptable detected noise; and controlling the physical rotation angle of the microphones to be the first physical rotation angle of the microphones and capturing the audio scene using the combination of the first set of one or more microphones and the first physical rotation angle of the microphones.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Arto LEHTINIEMI, Miikka VILERMO, Anssi RÄMÖ, Toni MÄKINEN
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Publication number: 20220260664Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method for audio focusing is provided, the method comprising: receiving a multi-channel audio signal that represents sounds in sound directions that correspond to respective positions in an image area of an image; receiving an indication of an audio focus direction that corresponds to a first position in the image area; selecting a primary sound direction from a plurality of different available candidate directions, wherein said plurality of different available candidate directions comprise said audio focus direction and one or more offset candidate directions and wherein each offset candidate direction corresponds to a respective candidate offset from said first position in the image area; and deriving, based on said multi-channel audio signal in dependence of the selected primary sound direction, an output audio signal where sounds in sound directions defined via the selected primary sound direction are emphasized in relation to sounds in sound directions other than thoType: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Miikka VILERMO, Mikko TAMMI, Toni MÄKINEN, Juha VILKAMO
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Publication number: 20220253154Abstract: A method comprising determining that an orientation of a mobile device is a flat orientation, determining a context of the mobile device, determining movement of the mobile device, and based on the orientation, context and movement of the device, determining orientation of visual content rendered on a display of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Miikka Tapani VILERMO, Arto Juhani LEHTINIEMI, Anssi Sakari RÄMÖ, Toni MÄKINEN
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Publication number: 20220253262Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for: determining a direction of arrival of sound from a sound source relative to a user device using at least one captured audio signal; controlling an angle of orientation of visual information displayed on a display, wherein the angle of orientation of the visual information is at least partially dependent upon the determined direction of arrival of sound from the sound source relative to the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Arto Juhani LEHTINIEMI, Miikka Tapani VILERMO, Anssi Sakari RÄMÖ, Toni MÄKINEN
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Patent number: 11223925Abstract: An apparatus configured to: based on (i) captured spatial audio content of a scene comprising audio that is associated with information indicative of at least a direction in the scene from which said audio was captured; and (ii) visual focus information comprising information indicative of at least a first part of the scene on which corresponding captured visual imagery of the scene is focused for presentation to a user; provide for presentation of the captured spatial audio content to accompany the captured visual imagery, the captured spatial audio content presented as spatial audio, the spatial audio content provided for presentation with a spatial audio focus selectively applied to audio captured from a second part of the scene different to the first part, the spatial audio focus comprising an audio-modifying effect to increase the audibility of the audio having a direction corresponding to the second part.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Toni Mäkinen, Mikko Heikkinen
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Publication number: 20200389755Abstract: An apparatus configured to: based on (i) captured spatial audio content of a scene comprising audio that is associated with information indicative of at least a direction in the scene from which said audio was captured; and (ii) visual focus information comprising information indicative of at least a first part of the scene on which corresponding captured visual imagery of the scene is focussed for presentation to a user; provide for presentation of the captured spatial audio content to accompany the captured visual imagery, the captured spatial audio content presented as spatial audio, the spatial audio content provided for presentation with a spatial audio focus selectively applied to audio captured from a second part of the scene different to the first part, the spatial audio focus comprising an audio-modifying effect to increase the audibility of the audio having a direction corresponding to the second part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Lasse Laaksonen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Toni Mäkinen, Mikko Heikkinen
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Patent number: 10785589Abstract: Apparatus comprising one or more processors configured to: receive at least two microphone audio signals (101) for audio signal processing wherein the audio signal processing comprises at least a spatial audio signal processing (303) and beamforming processing (305); determine spatial information (304) based on the audio signal processing associated with the at least two microphone audio signals; determine focus information (308) for the beamforming processing associated with the at least two microphone audio signals; and apply a spatial filter (307) in order to synthesize at least one spatially processed audio signal (312) based on the at least one beamformed audio signal from the at least two microphone audio signals (101), the spatial information (304) and the focus information (308) in such a way that the spatial filter (307), the at least one beamformed audio signal (306), the spatial information (304) and the focus information (308) are configured to be used to spatially synthesize (307) the at least onType: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Mikko Tammi, Toni Mäkinen, Jussi Virolainen, Mikko Heikkinen
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Publication number: 20190394606Abstract: Apparatus comprising one or more processors configured to: receive at least two microphone audio signals (101) for audio signal processing wherein the audio signal processing comprises at least a spatial audio signal processing (303) and beamforming processing (305); determine spatial information (304) based on the audio signal processing associated with the at least two microphone audio signals; determine focus information (308) for the beamforming processing associated with the at least two microphone audio signals; and apply a spatial filter (307) in order to synthesize at least one spatially processed audio signal (312) based on the at least one beamformed audio signal from the at least two microphone audio signals (101), the spatial information (304) and the focus information (308) in such a way that the spatial filter (307), the at least one beamformed audio signal (306), the spatial information (304) and the focus information (308) are configured to be used to spatially synthesize (307) the at least onType: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Mikko TAMMI, Toni MÄKINEN, Jussi VIROLAINEN, Mikko HEIKKINEN
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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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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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Publication number: 20140372107Abstract: A technique for creating audio objects on basis of a source audio signal is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Miikka VILERMO, Lasse LAAKSONEN, Adriana VASILACHE, Toni MÄKINEN, Roope JÄRVINEN