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Apple patents system to sync sound with multiple camera angles

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Apple describes a method for recording video from multiple cameras while keeping the audio consistent across all angles. The system uses data about each camera's position to ensure that sounds appear in the correct place, even when the viewer switches perspectives.

Why it mattersThis could improve how immersive video experiences handle sound when users change their viewing angle.

In the filing’s own words

The various aspects of the disclosure here enable a content creation side to control how a sound program is spatial audio rendered by a decoding side, so that an audio scene component in a metadata-specified three dimensional acoustic masking zone is not heard while another audio scene component in an un-masked zone of the sound program is heard by a listener of the playback. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An encoding side method for audio rendering of an audio session or sound program, the method comprising: obtaining a respective video feed and a respective metadata, of the respective video feed, for each of a plurality of cameras of a recording system that are aimed at a scene, wherein the respective metadata comprises a respective camera position and a respective camera orientation or look direction of the camera that is producing the video feed; selecting one of the plurality of cameras as a reference camera, and encoding the respective video feed of the reference camera as a reference feed into a bitstream along with a reference feed metadata, wherein the reference feed metadata comprises a single audio session or sound program of the scene as i) a plurality of audio objects and their respective positions relative to the respective camera position of the reference camera or ii) an HOA representation relative to the respective camera position of the reference camera; and encoding each of the respective video feeds of all others of the plurality of cameras into the bitstream along with a respective relative position of the camera that is producing the respective video feed, wherein the respective relative position is relative to the respective camera position of the reference camera, and wherein in a decoding side method, the single audio session or sound program in the reference feed metadata is to be used for playback from all others of the plurality of cameras.

Facts

Company
Apple (Apple Inc.)
Official title
Audio Rendering for Multiple Camera Positions
Publication number
US20260323233A1
Application number
19694212
Filed
Jun 1, 2026
Published
Oct 15, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
20

Classified under

H04S 7/302 Electricity & electronicsG10L 19/008 Physics & computingH04S 2400/11 Electricity & electronicsH04S 2400/13 Electricity & electronicsH04S 2420/11 Electricity & electronics

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