APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC H04S3/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: apparatus (100) for generating a multichannel audio signal (142) based on an input audio signal (102) comprises a main signal upmixing means (110), a section (segment) selector (120), a section signal upmixing means (110) and a combiner (140). The section signal upmixing means (110) is configured to provide a main multichannel audio signal (112) based on the input audio signal (102). The section selector (120) is configured to select or not select a section of the input audio signal (102) based on analysis of the input audio signal (102). The selected section of the input audio signal (102), a processed selected section of the input audio signal (102) or a reference signal associated with the selected section of the input audio signal (102) is provided as section signal (122). The section signal upmixing means (130) is configured to provide a section upmix signal (132) based on the section signal (122), and the combiner (140) is configured to overlay the main multichannel audio signal (112) and the section upmix signal (132) to obtain the multichannel audio signal (142).

EFFECT: improved flexibility and sound quality.

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