A system having a head-mounted display (HMD) mount and a mobile device, are described. A processor of the system can determine whether the mobile device is mounted on the HMD mount and handle an audio signal communicated from the mobile device to a wireless headphone based on whether the mobile device is mounted on the HMD mount. When the mobile device is not mounted on the HMD mount, the mobile device or the wireless headphone may operate in a first audio mode. When the mobile device is mounted on the HMD mount, the mobile device or the wireless headphone may operate in a second audio mode. The second audio mode can reduce audio signal latency between the mobile device and the wireless headphone and increase motion-to-sound quality. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

A method for providing media content within a media distribution network. The method comprises transforming source media content into an interim format, thereby providing transformed content. Furthermore, the method comprises storing the transformed content on at least one core storage unit. In addition, the method comprises receiving a request for the source media content from a client. The method further comprises encoding the transformed content or intermediate coded content derived therefrom into encoded content suitable for transmission over a core network and/or an edge network, as well as sending the encoded content via the core network and/or the edge network to the client.

Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to identify sources of network streaming services are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a coding format identifier to identify, from a received first audio signal representing a decompressed second audio signal, an audio compression configuration used to compress a third audio signal to form the second audio signal, and a source identifier to identify a source of the second audio signal based on the identified audio compression configuration.

An audio encoder has a first information sink oriented encoding branch such as a spectral domain encoding branch, a second information source or SNR oriented encoding branch such as an LPC-domain encoding branch, and a switch for switching between the first and second encoding branches, the second encoding branch having a converter into a specific domain different from the spectral domain such as an LPC analysis stage generating an excitation signal, and the second encoding branch having a specific domain coding branch such as LPC domain processing branch, and a specific spectral domain coding branch such as LPC spectral domain processing branch, and an additional switch for switching between the specific domain coding branch and the specific spectral domain coding branch. An audio decoder has a first domain decoder, a second domain decoder, and a third domain decoder as well as two cascaded switches for switching between the decoders.

An apparatus for generating a description of a combined audio scene, includes: an input interface for receiving a first description of a first scene in a first format and a second description of a second scene in a second format, wherein the second format is different from the first format; a format converter for converting the first description into a common format and for converting the second description into the common format, when the second format is different from the common format; and a format combiner for combining the first description in the common format and the second description in the common format to obtain the combined audio scene.

An audio metadata providing apparatus and method and a multichannel audio data playback apparatus and method to support a dynamic format conversion are provided. Dynamic format conversion information may include information about a plurality of format conversion schemes that are used to convert a first format set by a writer of multichannel audio data into a second format that is based on a playback environment of the multichannel audio data and that are set for each of playback periods of the multichannel audio data. The audio metadata providing apparatus may provide audio metadata including the dynamic format conversion information. The multichannel audio data playback apparatus may identify the dynamic format conversion information from the audio metadata, may convert the first format of the multichannel audio data into the second format based on the identified dynamic format conversion information, and may play back the multichannel audio data with the second format.

Disclosed herein is an audio transmitter receiver device. The device includes an audio interface providing an audio signal, the audio signal including at least one of an audio input signal and an audio output signal; a digital communications interface for at least communicating audio information; and an audio codec for transcoding the audio information such that the audio information includes at least a high quality distortion free lossless representation of the audio signal and the audio signal includes an audio representation of the audio information.

Methods and systems for supporting parallel processing utilizing Central Processing Unit(s) (CPU(s)) and at least one Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) device to provide high scale processing of content streams. An exemplary method embodiment including the steps of: receiving at a CPU multiple data units corresponding to a first frame time for each of first through Nth content streams; sequentially processing by the CPU data units corresponding to different content streams and the first frame time; operating a set of cores of a GPU, in parallel, to perform processing on a set of data units, processing including operating each core of the set of cores to perform an operation on a data unit corresponding to a single one of the first plurality of content streams, each core in the set of cores processing a data unit of a different content stream, said processing generating a set of generated data units.

Disclosed is an audio signal processing apparatus for rendering an input audio signal. The audio signal processing apparatus may include a processor configured to obtain an input audio signal including an ambisonics signal and a non-diegetic channel difference signal, render the ambisonics signal to generate a first output audio signal, mix the first output audio signal and the non-diegetic channel difference signal to generate a second output audio signal, and output the second output audio signal.

Apparatus, computer readable media and methods for processing a multi-channel, spatial audio format input signal. For example, one such method comprises determining object location metadata based on the received spatial audio format input signal; and extracting object audio signals based on the received spatial audio format input signal, wherein the extracting object audio signals based on the received spatial audio format input signal includes determining object audio signals and residual audio signals.