Patent 9769588 was granted and assigned to Nokia on September, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus comprising: a depth map estimator configured to determine, associated with at least one visual image, a depth map comprising at least one distance value in a direction relative to an apparatus; a direction of arrival estimator configured to determine, using at least two microphones, at least one audio source signal with a direction; and an audio signal processor configured to process the at least one audio source signal based on the at least one distance value in the direction of the at least one audio source signal.