Patent 8705749 was granted and assigned to Dolby Laboratories on April, 2014 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This invention relates to reformatting a plurality of audio input signals from a first format to a second format by applying them to a dynamically-varying transformatting matrix. In particular, this invention obtains information attributable to the direction and intensity of one or more directional signal components, calculates the transformatting matrix based on the first and second rules, and applies the audio input signals to the transformatting matrix to produce output signals.