Patent ID: 11937064
Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 1:
2. A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, that when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving an encoded audio signal and determining an audio object from the encoded audio signal;
classifying the audio object into at least one category based on rendering mode information, wherein the rendering mode information is part of metadata associated with the audio object;
computing a spatial distortion metric for the at least one category based on the rendering mode information;
assigning a number of clusters to the at least one category based on the spatial distortion metric;
determining at least one cluster for the at least one category based on the metadata and the assigned number of clusters; and
rendering the audio object based on the rendering mode information for the at least one cluster.