Abstract:
The invention relates to an audio compression system (100) for compressing an input audio signal, the audio compression system (100) comprising a digital filter (101) for filtering the input audio signal, the digital filter (101) comprising a frequency transfer function having a magnitude over frequency, the magnitude being formed by an equal loudness curve of a human ear to obtain a filtered audio signal, and a compressor (103) being configured to compress the input audio signal upon the basis of the filtered audio signal to obtain a compressed audio signal.
Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for enhancing a spatial perception of an audio signal are provided creating increased interaural-level differences. To obtain this effect, two dipoles are used: one for producing a left audio signal and one for producing a right audio signal.
Abstract:
A system (100) and a method for evaluating an acoustic transfer function, wherein the acoustic transfer function is a transfer function from one acoustic source to a reproduction area (RA) sampled by a limited number of microphone modules (120).
Abstract:
An audio signal processing device (10) for generating a plurality of output signals for a plurality of loudspeakers from an input audio signal comprises a driving function determining unit (11) adapted to determined driving functions of a plurality of loudspeakers for generating a virtual left binaural signal source and a virtual right binaural signal source based upon a position and a directivity of the virtual left binaural signal source, a position and a directivity of the virtual right binaural signal source and positions of the plurality of loudspeakers. Moreover, it comprises a filtering unit (12) adapted to filter a left binaural signal and a right binaural signal using the driving functions of the plurality of loudspeakers resulting in the plurality of output signals. The left binaural signal and the right binaural signal constitute the input audio signal or are derived there from.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a digital compressor (100) for compressing an input audio signal, the digital compressor (100) comprising a compression gain control (101) for providing a compression gain parameter, a compression parameter determiner (103) for determining a compression ratio from the compression gain parameter, the compression parameter determiner (103) being configured to weight the compression gain parameter by a predetermined weight factor to obtain the compression ratio, an auxiliary signal generator (105) for manipulating the input audio signal in dependence of the compression ratio to obtain a first auxiliary signal, and a combiner unit (107) for combining the first auxiliary signal with the compression gain parameter to obtain a second auxiliary signal, and for combining the input audio signal with the second auxiliary signal to obtain the compressed audio signal.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an audio signal processing apparatus (100) for processing an input earpiece audio signal (x) upon the basis of a microphone audio signal (y), the audio signal processing apparatus (100) comprising a voice activity detector (101) being configured to determine a voice activity indicator signal (x vad ) upon the basis of the input earpiece audio signal (x), a noise magnitude determiner (103) being configured to determine a microphone noise magnitude indicator signal (wy) upon the basis of the microphone audio signal (y), a gain factor determiner (105) being configured to determine a gain factor signal (Δ G ) upon the basis of the voice activity indicator signal (x vad ) and the microphone noise magnitude indicator signal (w y ), and a weighter (107) being configured to weight the input earpiece audio signal (x) by the gain factor signal (Δ G ) to obtain an output earpiece audio signal.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a microphone arrangement (100) and a method (900) using the microphone arrangement (100) for recording surround sound in a mobile device (200). The microphone arrangement (100) comprises a first and a second microphone (102) and (103) arranged at a first distance (d 1 ) to each other and configured to obtain a stereo signal, and comprises a third microphone (103) configured to obtain a steering signal (DOA, 1-DOA) together with at least one of the first and second microphone (102) and (103) and/or with a fourth microphone (104). The microphone arrangement (100) also comprises a processor (105) configured to separate the stereo signal into a front stereo signal (FL, FR) and a back stereo signal (BL, BR) based on the steering signal (DOA, 1-DOA).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a portable electronic device (100), comprising: a housing (101) comprising at least one hole (103); and at least two directional microphones (105a, 105b) mounted in the housing (101) and placed coincidentally for stereo sound pickup, each one of the microphones (105a, 105b) defining a main sound axis and each one of the two directional microphones (105a, 105b) defining a direct sound direction and a opposite sound direction which describe opposite directions of the main sound axis, wherein the at least one hole (103) is a common hole (103a) shared between the at least two directional microphones (105a, 105b) such that the main sound axis of the at least two directional microphones (105a, 105b) are pointing through the common hole (103a) in different directions.
Abstract:
Methods and devices for a low complex inter-channel difference estimation are provided. A method for the estimation of inter-channel differences, ICD, comprises applying a transformation from a time domain to a frequency domain to a plurality of audio channel signals, calculating a plurality of ICD values for the ICDs between at least one of the plurality of audio channel signals and a reference audio channel signal over a predetermined frequency range, each ICD value being calculated over a portion of the predetermined frequency range, calculating, for each of the plurality of ICD values, a weighted ICD value by multiplying each of the plurality of ICD values with a corresponding frequency-dependent weighting factor, and calculating an ICD range value for the predetermined frequency range by adding the plurality of weighted ICD values.
Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for generating an acoustic signal with an enhanced spatial effect, said apparatus comprising a signal filter bank adapted to filter a difference audio signal with a filter characteristic to limit a bandwidth of said difference audio signal, wherein said bandwidth limited difference audio signal is applied to at least one pair of loudspeakers for dipole sound emission.