Patent ID: 11882425
Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A rendering apparatus for rendering a volume sound source, the rendering apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to identify information about a listener and information about the volume sound source, determine a corresponding area in which a source element is disposed in the volume sound source in consideration of the information about the listener, determine an angle between the listener and the corresponding area in consideration of the information about the listener and the information about the volume sound source, determine a number of the source elements disposed in the corresponding area according to the angle, determine a position and a gain of the source element using i) the number of the source elements and ii) a distance between the listener and the volume sound source, and render the volume sound source according to the position and the gain of the source element.