Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Noise masking device, vehicle and noise masking method
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Application No.: US16178170Application Date: 2018-11-01
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Publication No.: US10685637B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Kazuhisa Kotegawa , Kiyohisa Higashi
- Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@5c472620
- Main IPC: G10K11/175
- IPC: G10K11/175 ; H04R3/00 ; H04R3/12

Abstract:
A noise masking device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires (i) frequency information indicating a frequency of a noise in a vehicle or frequency-correlated information correlated to the frequency and (ii) vehicle information relating to a characteristic of the noise; a signal source that generates a masker signal for outputting a masker sound that masks the noise in the vehicle; a pitch-shifting unit that pitch-shifts the masker signal according to the frequency information or the frequency-correlated information acquired by the acquisition unit to generate a pitch-shifted masker signal; an adjustment unit that performs, on the pitch-shifted masker signal, an adjustment according to the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit to generate an adjusted masker signal; and an output unit that outputs the adjusted masker signal as the masker sound.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190130887A1 NOISE MASKING DEVICE, VEHICLE AND NOISE MASKING METHOD Public/Granted day:2019-05-02
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