No assignee for this patent application has been made.News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“There are many ways to capture spatial audio. One option i s to capture the spatial audio using amicrophone array, e.g., as part of a mobi le device. Using the microphone signals, spatial analysis of thesound scene can be performed to determine spatial metadata in frequency bands. Moreover, transp ortaudio signals can be determined using the microphone signals. The spatial me tadata and the transportaudio signals can be combined to form a spatial audio s tream.