APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENCODING, DECODING, PROCESSING A SCENE, AND OTHER PROCEDURES RELATED TO DIRAC-BASED SPATIAL AUDIO ENCODING Russian patent published in 2021 - IPC G10L19/08 

FIELD: computing technology.

SUBSTANCE: apparatus for forming a description of a combined audio scene comprises an input interface for receiving a first description of a first scene in a first format and a second description of a second scene in a second format, wherein the second format differs from the first format; a format converter for converting the first description to a common format and for converting the second description to a common format when the second format differs from the common format; and a format combiner for combining the first description in the common format and the second description in the common format to result in a description of a combined audio scene.

EFFECT: improved processing of audio scenes and descriptions of audio scenes.

41 cl, 41 dwg