摘要:
An impulse response synthesis method is carried out by a dispersion calculation process for calculating a dispersion of phase characteristics in association with a given room based on a volume of the room, a degree of sound absorption of the room, and a distance between a sound source and a receiving point arranged in the room, a noise creation process for creating a noise having the dispersion of the phase characteristics calculated in the dispersion calculation process, a trend addition process for adding a phase trend to the noise created by the noise creation process in accordance with the distance between the sound source and the receiving point and obtaining a phase characteristic of a minimum-phase component from the noise added with the phase trend, and a synthesis process for synthesizing an impulse response based on the phase characteristic of the minimum-phase component, the impulse response being used to create reverberation for the room.
摘要:
A method is designed for emphasizing a howling frequency component of a sound signal observed in an acoustic feedback system during an observation period having a predetermined length. The method is carried out by the steps of successively sampling the sound signal from the acoustic feedback system to provide a running set of samples of the sound signal during the observation period such that a total number of the samples in the running set increments each time one or more of new sample is added to the running set until the total number of the samples corresponds to the predetermined length of the observation period, recurrently calculating a running frequency characteristic of the sound signal on a common frequency axis for the observation period from the running set of the samples each time one ore more of new sample is added to the running set, and accumulating the recurrently calculated running frequency characteristics on the common frequency axis so as to emphasize a howling frequency component contained in the sound signal.
摘要:
An impulse response synthesis method is carried out by a dispersion calculation process for calculating a dispersion of phase characteristics in association with a given room based on a volume of the room, a degree of sound absorption of the room, and a distance between a sound source and a receiving point arranged in the room, a noise creation process for creating a noise having the dispersion of the phase characteristics calculated in the dispersion calculation process, a trend addition process for adding a phase trend to the noise created by the noise creation process in accordance with the distance between the sound source and the receiving point and obtaining a phase characteristic of a minimum-phase component from the noise added with the phase trend, and a synthesis process for synthesizing an impulse response based on the phase characteristic of the minimum-phase component, the impulse response being used to create reverberation for the room.
摘要:
A method is designed for emphasizing a howling frequency component of a sound signal observed in an acoustic feedback system during an observation period having a predetermined length. The method is carried out by the steps of successively sampling the sound signal from the acoustic feedback system to provide a running set of samples of the sound signal during the observation period such that a total number of the samples in the running set increments each time one or more of new sample is added to the running set until the total number of the samples corresponds to the predetermined length of the observation period, recurrently calculating a running frequency characteristic of the sound signal on a common frequency axis for the observation period from the running set of the samples each time one ore more of new sample is added to the running set, and accumulating the recurrently calculated running frequency characteristics on the common frequency axis so as to emphasize a howling frequency component contained in the sound signal.
摘要:
A hearing aid device for processing an input sound signal via a microphone so as to output a sound signal from an earphone comprises a signal processing element, a couple of acoustic nerve excitation pattern calculation elements, a couple of acoustic filter shape memory elements, a comparison element, a correction processing element, etc. The couple of acoustic nerve excitation pattern calculation elements calculate acoustic nerve excitation patterns of a normal hearing person and a hearing impaired person based on an output signal of the signal processing element and acoustic filter shapes of the normal hearing person and the hearing impaired person which are stored in the couple of acoustic filter shape memory elements. Each of the acoustic nerve excitation patterns is compared via the comparison element. Then, the correction processing element corrects the input sound signal such that the acoustic nerve excitation pattern of the hearing impaired person is identical with the acoustic nerve excitation pattern of the normal hearing person, so as to generate an output sound signal.
摘要:
A hearing aid device for processing an input sound signal via a microphone so as to output a sound signal from an earphone comprises a signal processing element, a couple of acoustic nerve excitation pattern calculation elements, a couple of acoustic filter shape memory elements, a comparison element, a correction processing element, etc. The couple of acoustic nerve excitation pattern calculation elements calculate acoustic nerve excitation patterns of a normal hearing person and a hearing impaired person based on an output signal of the signal processing element and acoustic filter shapes of the normal hearing person and the hearing impaired person which are stored in the couple of acoustic filter shape memory elements. Each of the acoustic nerve excitation patterns is compared via the comparison element. Then, the correction processing element corrects the input sound signal such that the acoustic nerve excitation pattern of the hearing impaired person is identical with the acoustic nerve excitation pattern of the normal hearing person, so as to generate an output sound signal.
摘要:
Stereo sound signals are reproduced directly from loudspeakers (SP(L), SP(R)). By using a sum signal and a difference signal of the stereo sound signals as a reference signal, and according to a cross spectrum calculation of the reference signal with a microphone-collected sound signal, calculation is performed to obtain transfer functions of four sound transfer systems between the loudspeakers (SP(L), SP(R)) and microphones (MC(L), MC(R)). The transfer functions obtained are subjected to inverse Fourier transform to obtain impulse responses, which are set in filter means (40-1 to 40-4) to create echo cancel signals and perform echo canceling. This solves the problem of an indefinite coefficient in the echo cancel technique of a multi-channel sound signal.
摘要:
Stereo sound signals are reproduced directly from loudspeakers (SP(L), SP(R)). By using a sum signal and a difference signal of the stereo sound signals as a reference signal, and according to a cross spectrum calculation of the reference signal with a microphone-collected sound signal, calculation is performed to obtain transfer functions of four sound transfer systems between the loudspeakers (SP(L), SP(R)) and microphones (MC(L), MC(R)). The transfer functions obtained are subjected to inverse Fourier transform to obtain impulse responses, which are set in filter means (40-1 to 40-4) to create echo cancel signals and perform echo canceling. This solves the problem of an indefinite coefficient in the echo cancel technique of a multi-channel sound signal.
摘要:
A similarity degree estimation method is performed by two processes. In a first process, an inter-band correlation matrix is created from spectral data of an input voice such that the spectral data are divided into a plurality of discrete bands which are separated from each other with spaces therebetween along a frequency axis, a plurality of envelope components of the spectral data are obtained from the plurality of the discrete bands, and elements of the inter-band correlation matrix are correlation values between the respective envelope components of the input voice. In a second process, a degree of similarity is calculated between a pair of input voices to be compared with each other by using respective inter-band correlation matrices obtained for the pair of the input voices through the inter-band correlation matrix creation process.
摘要:
An acoustic echo erasing apparatus which generates a pseudo-echo component from an audio reception signal (a vector x.sub.1) using an adaptive filter, and removes the pseudo-echo component from an audio transmission signal (a vector y). The apparatus extracts a feedback component depending only on the audio reception signal from the audio transmission signal, and passes the audio reception signal through the adaptive filter to generate the pseudo-echo component while setting a transfer characteristic of the adaptive filter in accordance with the feedback component.