Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Audio communication device
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Application No.: US17374780Application Date: 2021-07-13
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Publication No.: US11700500B2Publication Date: 2023-07-11
- Inventor: Shuji Miyasaka , Kazutaka Abe , Yasunori Naruse
- Applicant: SOCIONEXT INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
- Current Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP 20153008 2020.09.11
- Main IPC: H04S7/00
- IPC: H04S7/00 ; H04R27/00 ; H04M3/56

Abstract:
An audio communication device includes: a sound position determiner that determines sound localization positions for N audio signals in a virtual space having first and second walls; N sound localizers each performing sound localization processing to localize sound in the sound localization position determined by the sound position determiner, and outputting localized sound signals; an adder that sums the N localized sound signals, and outputs a summed localized sound signal. Each sound localizer performs the processing using: a first head-related transfer function (HRTF) assuming that a sound wave emitted from the sound localization position of the sound localizer determined by the sound position determiner directly reaches each ear of a hearer virtually present at the hearer position; and a second HRTF assuming that the sound wave emitted from the sound localization position reaches each ear of the hearer after being reflected by closer one of the first and second walls.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220086585A1 AUDIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2022-03-17
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