Patent ID: 8989401
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: H04R,H04S

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: obtaining a plurality of audio signals originating from a plurality of audio sources in order to create an audio scene; analyzing the audio scene in order to determine zoomable audio points within the audio scene; and providing information regarding the zoomable audio points to a client device for selecting, wherein analyzing the audio scene further comprises determining a size of the audio scene; dividing the audio scene into a plurality of cells; determining, for the cells comprising at least one audio source, at least one directional vector of an audio source for a frequency band of an input frame; combining, within each cell, directional vectors of a plurality of frequency bands having a deviation angle less than a predetermined limit into one or more combined directional vectors; and determining intersection points of the combined directional vectors of the audio scene as the zoomable audio points.