Patent ID: 8751024
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: G10L,H04S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for playback of object based audio contents, comprising: a decoding unit to decode, from the object based audio contents, a plurality of audio objects, a plurality of third preset IDs, and a plurality of audio presets indicated by the plurality of third preset IDs, the audio preset including information about an object attribute of each of the plurality of audio objects; an interface unit to provide at least one fourth preset ID to a user, and to receive a single fourth preset ID among the at least one fourth preset ID from the user, the at least one fourth preset ID being predetermined; a preset selecting unit to select an audio preset indicated by a third preset ID corresponding to the received single fourth preset ID from among the decoded plurality of audio presets, when the third preset ID corresponding to the received single fourth preset ID exists among the decoded plurality of third preset IDs, and to select the audio preset indicated by the third preset ID as the audio preset for the single fourth preset ID; and a playback unit to perform playback of the object based audio contents by rendering the plurality of audio objects based on the information about the object attribute of each of the plurality of audio objects included in the selected audio preset, wherein the object attribute includes a location of the audio object.