Patent ID: 11917392
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program instructions for causing an apparatus to perform at least the following:
providing first positional data indicative of a first user position in a virtual space which comprises a plurality of audio objects;
receiving, based at least partially on the first positional data, first allocation data indicative of a first allocation of the audio objects into a prioritized order or into one of a plurality of prioritized groups in which each group has a respective priority order;
receiving audio data associated with at least some of the audio objects;
rendering the received audio data for at least some of the audio objects associated with the received audio data, based on the first allocation data, in which audio objects with a higher priority or in a higher priority group are rendered with priority over audio objects allocated with a lower priority or in a lower priority group;
providing updated positional data indicative of one or more of a second, different, user position;
receiving, based on the updated positional data, second allocation data indicative of a second, different allocation of the audio objects into a different prioritized order or into prioritized groups whereby at least one object present in a first group for the first allocation is changed to a second group for the second allocation; and
rendering the received audio data based on the second allocation data.