Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sound processing apparatus and sound processing system
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Application No.: US15932368Application Date: 2018-02-16
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Publication No.: US10455345B2Publication Date: 2019-10-22
- Inventor: Yuki Yamamoto , Toru Chinen , Runyu Shi , Mitsuyuki Hatanaka
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: H03G3/00
- IPC: H03G3/00 ; H04S5/00 ; H03G3/30

Abstract:
The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image.A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker. The values obtained by multiplying these gains by the gain of the virtual speaker are set as the gains of the lower right and lower left speakers for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. The present technology can be applied to sound processing apparatuses.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180184222A1 Sound processing apparatus and sound processing system Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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