Dolby and MPEG-H

[Lucanu]

I don’t know if this is the right place to talk about this but what I read is somewhat ”shocking” to me.
If you take a look to MPEG-H 3D Audio – ViaCorp you can clearly see that Dolby is involved.
Also there’s more here MPEG-H 3D Licensors – ViaCorp

What do you think about it?

 

[humprof]

I don’t know if this is the right place to talk about this but what I read is somewhat ”shocking” to me.
If you take a look to MPEG-H 3D Audio – ViaCorp you can clearly see that Dolby is involved.
Also there’s more here MPEG-H 3D Licensors – ViaCorp

What do you think about it?

Not immediately clear why Dolby would be listed as a "licensor" of this technology; I'd always thought it was developed jointly by MPEG and Fraunhofer. But Wikipedia says that MPEG-H "has various 'parts' – each of which can be considered a separate standard." So Dolby must control the rights to one of those "parts." (I think it's the A/342 audio standard for ATSC 3.0; Dolby AC-4 is part of that standard.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-HThis 2021 article in Bloomberg News further says that

Dolby Laboratories Inc., Sony Group Corp. and the research institute Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft’s U.S. arm have created a patent pool they say will promote the next generation of sound without the type of litigation that has plagued the technology industry for years.

The pool includes more than 90% of the patents needed to implement the new MPEG-H 3D Audio standard....

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...te-new-patent-pool-for-earth-shattering-audio