Patent Document ID: 10068363
Application ID: 14777852
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: defining at least one region within an image as an interest region; from among sound sources in the image, determining at least one audio signal associated with the at least one region based upon a direction of arrival of the at least one audio signal as recorded by a microphone or microphone array, wherein determining at least one audio signal based on the direction of arrival comprises processing the at least one audio signal based on the at least one region to generate at least one positional audio signal part and synthesizing the at least one audio signal from the at least one positional audio signal part; and generating an animated image comprising the at least one region and the at least one audio signal, wherein generating the animated image comprises separately controlling the at least one audio signal associated with the at least one region relative to an audio signal associated with another region or representative of ambient audio.