The present disclosure relates to an audio device (900) for providing an improved three-dimensional sound experience by means of the generated soundfield. To achieve this, the audio device (900) comprises a housing (901), which has an elliptical torus shape and a plurality of loudspeakers (903a-903h), and a processing circuitry (1310). The processing circuitry is configured to process a plurality of input signals (L, R, UL, UR) in a manner, which enables the plurality of loudspeakers (903a-903h) to form at least a first (DH1, DH3) and second (DH2) horizontal dipoles for crosstalk cancellation within at least two different frequency ranges (HF, MF), and to form at least a first vertical dipole (DV1, DV3) for sound elevation (1204a, 1204b) of the soundfield. Hereby, the desired frequency ranges (HF, MF) may be adjusted using an appropriated distance of the plurality of loudspeakers (903a-903h).

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing a signal, which are used for effectively reproducing a multimedia signal, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for processing a signal, which are used for implementing filtering for multimedia signal having a plurality of subbands with a low calculation amount. To this end, provided are a method for processing a multimedia signal including: receiving a multimedia signal having a plurality of subbands; receiving at least one proto-type filter coefficients for filtering each subband signal of the multimedia signal; converting the proto-type filter coefficients into a plurality of subband filter coefficients; truncating each subband filter coefficients based on filter order information obtained by at least partially using characteristic information extracted from the corresponding subband filter coefficients, the length of at least one truncated subband filter coefficients being different from the length of truncated subband filter coefficients of another subband; and filtering the multimedia signal by using the truncated subband filter coefficients corresponding to each subband signal and an apparatus for processing a multimedia signal using the same.

An apparatus for converting an object position of an audio object from a Cartesian representation to a spherical representation is described. A basis area of the Cartesian representation is subdivided into a plurality of basis area triangles, and wherein a plurality of spherical-domain triangles are inscribed into a circle of a spherical representation. The apparatus is configured to determine, in which of the basis area triangles a projection of the object position of the audio object into the base area is arranged; and the apparatus is configured to determine a mapped position of the projection of the object position using a linear transform, which maps the base area triangle onto its associated spherical domain triangle. The apparatus is configured to derive an azimuth angle and an intermediate radius value from the mapped position. The apparatus is configured to obtain a spherical domain radius value and an elevation angle in dependence on the intermediate radius value and in dependence on a distance of the object position from the base area. An apparatus for converting an object position of an audio object from a spherical representation to a spherical representation, applications of these apparatuses, methods and computer programs are also described.

A display apparatus including a display panel configured to display an image in a front direction; a main speaker provided on a rear surface of the display panel; and an auxiliary speaker provided on the rear surface of the display panel, the auxiliary speaker being configured to output a sound in a rear direction opposing the front direction.

An acoustic device includes: a generating unit that generates a monaural signal on the basis of a left stereo signal and a right stereo signal in a low frequency band; an extracting unit that extracts a stereo component for an L-channel and a stereo component for an R-channel on the basis of a left stereo signal and a right stereo signal in a high frequency band; a first combining unit that combines the monaural signal and the stereo component for the L-channel; and a second combining unit that combines the monaural signal and the stereo component for the R-channel.

An audio object including audio content and object metadata is received. The object metadata indicates an object spatial position of the audio object to be rendered by audio speakers in a playback environment. Based on the object spatial position and source spatial positions of the audio speakers, initial gain values for the audio speakers are determined. The initial gain values can be used to select a set of audio speakers from among the audio speakers. Based on the object spatial position and a set of source spatial positions at which the set of audio speakers are respectively located in the playback environment, a set of non-negative optimized gain values for the set of audio speakers is determined. The audio object at the object spatial position is rendered with the set of optimized gain values for the set of audio speakers.

Embodiments described herein involve an auxiliary zone contributing audio to a primary zone. In an example implementation, a network media system determines that a first zone in the network media system is playing back a first type of audio content and that a second zone in the network media system is not playing back audio content. While the first zone is playing back the first type of audio content and the second zone is not playing back audio content, the network media system forms a temporarily playback configuration. In the temporary playback configuration, the first zone plays back primary audio content including full frequency range audio content and the second playback device of the second zone plays back auxiliary audio content including low frequency range audio content.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for generating an immersive three-dimensional sound space for searching audio. The system generates a three-dimensional sound space having a plurality of sound sources playing at a same time, wherein each of the plurality of sound sources is assigned a respective location in the three-dimensional sound space relative to one another, and wherein a user is assigned a current location in the three-dimensional sound space relative to each respective location. Next, the system receives input from the user to navigate to a new location in the three-dimensional sound space. Based on the input, the system then changes each respective location of the plurality of sound sources relative to the new location in the three-dimensional sound space.

In a computing device for adjusting audio output during playback of 360 video, a 360 video bitstream is received, and the 360 video bitstream separated into video content and audio content. The audio content corresponding to a plurality of audio sources is decoded, wherein a number of audio sources is represented by N. The video content is displayed and the audio content is output through a plurality of output devices, wherein a number of output devices is represented by M. In response to detecting a change in a viewing angle for the video content, a determination is made, for each of the plurality of output devices, of a distribution ratio for each of the plurality of audio sources based on the viewing angle such that N×M distribution ratios are determined; and the audio content is output through each of the plurality of output devices based on the determined N×M distribution ratios.

The disclosure relates to an audio signal processing apparatus comprising a determiner being configured to determine a filter matrix C on the basis of an acoustic transfer function matrix H and a target acoustic transfer function matrix VH, wherein the acoustic transfer function matrix H comprises transfer functions of acoustic propagation paths between loudspeakers and a listener and the target acoustic transfer function matrix VH comprises target transfer functions of target acoustic propagation paths, wherein the target acoustic propagation paths are defined by a target arrangement of virtual loudspeaker positions relative to the listener, a filter being configured to filter the input audio signal on the basis of the filter matrix C to obtain filtered input audio signals, and a combiner being configured to combine the filtered input audio signals to obtain output audio signals.