Patent ID: 11948586
Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 1:
2. A method of rendering audio content for an object based audio program, said method comprising:
receiving conditional rendering metadata corresponding to at least one object channel, wherein the conditional rendering metadata is indicative of at least one rendering constraint for the at least one object channel, wherein the rendering constraint is related to a playback speaker array configuration, and wherein the object based audio program is an encoded bitstream comprising frames;
receiving size metadata associated with the at least one object channel;
rendering content of a set of audio channels including the at least one object channel based on the rendering constraint of the conditional rendering metadata and the size metadata, wherein the rendering constraint includes a constraint relating to an elevation of at least a speaker in the playback speaker array configuration.