Patent ID: 7912566

Claim:
An object-based audio receiving system, comprising: a receiving means for receiving object-based audio contents including an object-based audio signal and a plurality of audio scenes generated by editor; an object-based audio decoding means for decoding the object-based audio contents; a user control means for outputting a user controlled scene signal for organizing the audio scene; an object-based audio scene synthesizing means for organizing the audio scene based on the object-based audio signal according to the user controlled scene signal; and a reproducing means for reproducing the object-based audio contents based on the audio scene, wherein the user control means enables the user to select a desired audio scene of a plurality of audio scenes generated by editor, the object-based audio decoding means includes: a demultiplexing block for demultiplexing the object-based audio contents and creating the object-based audio signal, and the audio scene; a decoding block for decoding the object-based audio signal; and an additional data decoding block for decoding the audio scene.