Patent ID: 9697844
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G10L,H04R,H04S

Claim:
1. A method for reproducing multichannel audio, comprising: transmitting a multichannel audio encoded source signal to a plurality of decoder processing units in a decentralized decoder system for decentralized decoding of the multichannel audio source signal, each decoder processing unit in the plurality of decoder processing units including an output channel associated with a different physical location in a listening environment, each decoder processing unit being aware of its relative physical location in the listening environment, wherein the decentralized decoder system is configured such that if an initial setup for the plurality of decoder processing units is modified, the decentralized decoder system can reconfigure parameters based on either detecting new positions and number of decoder processing units or detecting new positions and number of output channels in the modified setup, wherein an output signal from each output channel is determined by the output channel position while the source signal is independent of the output channel positions in the listening environment, and wherein the output channel position is determined automatically.