APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUDIO RENDERING EMPLOYING GEOMETRIC DISTANCE DEFINITION Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC H04S7/00 

FIELD: acoustics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to devices, a method, and a machine-readable medium for reproducing a sound object. Device comprises a distance calculating device for calculating distances from the position of the device to the speakers, wherein the distance calculating device is configured to make a decision regarding the shortest distance and wherein the device is configured to reproduce an audio object using a speaker in accordance with a solution, wherein the distance calculation device is arranged to calculate distances as a function of the distance function, which returns the distance along a large arc, or which returns the weighted absolute differences between the azimuth angles and the elevation angles, or which returns a weighted angular difference.

EFFECT: optimized playback of a sound object.

11 cl, 6 dwg