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- Patent Title: Head-related transfer function generator, head-related transfer function generation program, and head-related transfer function generation method
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Application No.: US17114678Application Date: 2020-12-08
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Publication No.: US11337021B2Publication Date: 2022-05-17
- Inventor: Kazuhiro Ilda
- Applicant: Chiba Institute of Technology
- Applicant Address: JP Chiba
- Assignee: Chiba Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: Chiba Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiba
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Priority: JPJP2020-090035 20200522,JPJP2020-200590 20201202
- Main IPC: H04S7/00
- IPC: H04S7/00 ; H04R1/22

Abstract:
An object is to acquire a head-related transfer function reproducing features of a head-related transfer function of a listener without actually measuring the head-related transfer function of the listener. A head-related transfer function generator includes: acquiring data that represents an actually measured head-related impulse response of sound waves arriving at external auditory meatus entrances of a listener for training; calculating an initial head-related impulse response by applying a window function to the actually measured head-related impulse response and generating data representing an early head-related transfer function by performing a Fourier transform on the initial head-related impulse response; dividing the early head-related transfer function into a plurality of frequency bands; and executing a process of extracting a peak or a notch on the basis of curvature of the early head-related transfer function and a process of determining a relative amplitude for each of the plurality of frequency bands and generating data representing a modeled head-related transfer function of the listener for training by interpolating points representing the relative amplitudes.
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