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.
Abstract:
An acoustic device that reproduces audio signals, the acoustic device including: a first acoustic reproducer that reproduces a signal corresponding to a treble range among the audio signals; a second acoustic reproducer that has a reproduction band from a cutoff frequency on a low frequency side to a cutoff frequency on a high frequency side, and reproduces a signal corresponding to a midrange lower than the treble range among the audio signals; and a harmonic overtone generator that generates a plurality of harmonic overtone signals for a fundamental tone signal corresponding to a specific frequency lower than the cutoff frequency on the low frequency side among the audio signals, wherein at least a part of the plurality of harmonic overtone signals is included in the reproduction band of the second acoustic reproducer.
Abstract:
A device including a speech recognition function which recognizes speech from a user, includes: a loudspeaker which outputs speech to a space; a microphone which collects speech in the space; a first speech recognition unit which recognizes the speech collected by the microphone; a command control unit which issues a command for controlling the device, based on the speech recognized by the first speech recognition unit; and a control unit which prohibits the command issuance unit from issuing the command, based on the speech to be output from the loudspeaker.
Abstract:
An acoustic signal processing device includes: a front signal processor which generates first L and R signals by performing signal processing on a first signal which is a front channel signal; a first adder which generates a fourth signal which is a left channel signal by adding the first L signal and a second signal which is a left channel signal; and a second adder which generates a fifth signal which is a right channel signal by adding the first R signal and a third signal which is a right channel signal. The front signal processor generates the first L and R signals by signal processing in which the first signal is distributed and placed at predetermined positions when the first signal is a dialog signal, and distributed and placed at positions different from the predetermined positions when the first signal is not a dialog signal.
Abstract:
An acoustic processor includes: an oversampler that oversamples an acoustic signal that is a digital signal including a frequency component less than or equal to Fh, where Fh is a preset frequency, and having a sampling frequency of Fs, into a signal having a sampling frequency greater than or equal to 2Fs; a modulator that modulates an ultrasound signal having a frequency Fc greater than or equal to 2Fh as a carrier wave using the acoustic signal; an acoustic output terminal; and an adder that adds an output signal from the oversampler and an output signal from the modulator and outputs a resultant sum to the acoustic output terminal.
Abstract:
An acoustic device that provides a stereophonic effect to a driver of a mobile object includes: a plurality of speakers (an L channel speaker and an R channel speaker) mounted on a steering wheel that controls a traveling direction of the mobile object; a steering angle detection unit configured to detect a steering angle of the steering wheel; and a signal output unit configured to output a plurality of output signals obtained by performing, on a sound signal, a process relating to the stereophonic effect and depending on the steering angle, respectively to the plurality of speakers.
Abstract:
An input signal includes a channel-based audio signal and an object-based audio signal, and an audio encoding device includes an audio scene analysis unit configured to determine an audio scene from the input signal and detect audio scene information; a channel-based encoder that encodes the channel-based audio signal output from the audio scene analysis unit; an object-based encoder that encodes the object-based audio signal output from the audio scene analysis unit; and an audio scene encoding unit configured to encode the audio scene information.
Abstract:
An audio processing apparatus includes a preprocessor which extracts a voice-band signal from a first electric signal, and outputs a first output signal containing the voice-band signal; a first controller which generates a first amplification coefficient for multiplying with the first output signal to compress a dynamic range of an intensity of the first output signal, and generates a first modified amplification coefficient by smoothing the first amplification coefficient with a first time constant; and a first multiplier which multiplies the first modified amplification coefficient and the first output signal. The first time constant is a first rise time constant when the intensity increases, and is a first decay time constant when the intensity decreases. The first rise time constant is not less than a temporal resolution of hearing of a hearing-impaired person, and is less than a duration time of sound which induces recruitment in the hearing-impaired person.
Abstract:
A video/audio reproduction device that adjusts a common parameter associated with a plurality of individual parameters to adjust image quality and sound quality includes: a parameter output unit that accepts an input of the common parameter and outputs a first individual parameter and a second individual parameter that are associated with the common parameter inputted, among the plurality of individual parameters; an image quality adjustment unit that adjusts the image quality in accordance with the first individual parameter outputted; and a sound quality adjustment unit that adjusts the sound quality in accordance with the second individual parameter outputted, wherein the first individual parameter is at least one image quality adjustment parameter that changes in response to changes in the common parameter, and the second individual parameter is at least one sound quality adjustment parameter that changes in response to changes in the common parameter.
Abstract:
A sound processing device includes: a distance information obtaining unit which obtains information about a first distance between stereo microphones and information about a second distance between stereo loudspeakers; and a signal processing unit which processes a stereophonic audio signal collected by the stereo microphones according to the first distance and the second distance to adjust a stereo effect provided when the stereophonic audio signal is reproduced from the stereo loudspeakers.