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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.6416/DELNP/2008 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :22/07/2008 (43) Publication Date : 24/10/2008
(54) Title of the invention : DECODING OF BINAURAL AUDIO SIGNALS
(51) International classification :H04S 1/00 (71)Name of Applicant :
(31) Priority Document No :PCT/FI2006/050014 1)NOKIA CORPORATION
(32) Priority Date :09/01/2006
Address of Applicant :KEILALAHDENTIE 4, FIN-02150
(33) Name of priority country :Finland
ESPOO, FINLAND Finland
(86) International Application No :PCT/FI2007/050004 (72)Name of Inventor :
Filing Date
:04/01/2007 1)OJALA, PASI
(87) International Publication No :WO 2007/080224 2)TURKU, JULIA
(61) Patent of Addition to Application
Number
Filing Date
:NA
:NA
3)VAANANEN, MAURI
(62) Divisional to Application Number :NA
Filing Date
:NA
(57) Abstract :
A method for synthesizing a binaural audio signal, the method comprising: inputting a parametrically encoded audio signal comprising
at least one combined signal of a plurality of audio channels and one or more corresponding sets of side information describing a
multichannel sound image; and applying a predetermined set of head-related transfer function filters to the at least one combined
signal in proportion determined by the corresponding set of side information to synthesize a binaural audio signal. A corresponding
parametric audio decoder, parametric audio encoder, computer program product, and apparatus for synthesizing a binaural audio
signal are also described.
No. of Pages : 28 No. of Claims : 33
The Patent Office Journal 24/10/2008 25895