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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information transmitting method capable of reproducing atmospheres of a concert hall and a live hall. SOLUTION: Together with information on a voice and music and/or information on a picture, biological information on a speaker, a player, a performer, a conductor, etc., as the sending-out source of the voice and music and/or biological information on performers included in the picture is multiplexed and transmitted. On a reception side, listeners can be stimulated by sensation based upon the biological information, or presence and live power can be reproduced by controlling the information on the voice and music and/or information on the picture according to the biological information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reserve program recording of a serial drama which is broadcasted multiple rumber of times, by one setting when a program to be recorded in a hard disk is reserved, specify the last data and time of recording of the program to be recorded in a recording medium and indicate the result. SOLUTION: When a program, such as a serial drama which is broadcasted multiple times, is reserved for recording by an operation input part 110, a system controller 80 calculates the number of time possible for record in hard disks 61 to 63, on the basis of the remaining capacity of the hard disks 61 to 63 and a recording capacity necessary for one-time broadcasting, and specifies the last date and time of a recordable broadcasting program on the basis of a calendar stored in a ROM 83 and indicates the result.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a level compression characteristic in the case of band- dividing an audio signal and level-compressing it. SOLUTION: This audio processing unit is provided with gain control amplifiers 51-53 in which audio signals band-divided from an input audio signal are respectively supplied, a level detection circuit 8A that respectively detects the level of the audio signals band-divided, a control signal forming circuit 8C that respectively forms gain control signals for the gain control amplifiers 51-53 according to a detection signal from the level detection circuit 8A and circuits 8B, 8E, 8H-8K that form a correction signal as to division bands adjacent to the division band corresponding to the detection signal. Each gain instructed by each control signal for the control signal forming circuit 8C is corresponding respectively by the correction signal.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To amplify a voice excellently without lowering clearness in the voice amplifying processing. SOLUTION: An input voice signal is divided to at least a pitch frequency component, a first band containing a first formant component and a second band containing a second formant component, and the least audible value and an unpleasant threshold value are set in at every respective bands, and the input voice of a level within a prescribed range is amplified to the output level set in between the least audible value and the unpleasant threshold value.
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PURPOSE:To provide a device for analyzing voice by which examintion on those who have difficulty in hearing can be made easily and accurately. CONSTITUTION:The device is equipped with presented sound outputting means 2, 4, 5, 6 to output a predetermined number of presented sound, an inputting means 7 of answering sounds against presented sounds, a memorizing means 8 memorizing corresponding relationship between presented sounds which are output by the outting means 2, 4, 5, 6 and answering sounds which are input in an inputting means 7 and a data processing means 1 which finds the total of presented sounds and the total of answering sounds respectively based on the data memorized by the memorizing means 8 and also finds rate of agreement of answering sounds corresponding to each stipulated sound and rate of agreement of presented sound corresponding to each answering sound. Furthermore, the device is structured to total and output the amount of ratios obtained from the data processing means 1.
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PURPOSE:To make sure the retrieval and conditions for examination sounds without giving a track, or index, number to a digital storage medium such as a CD or DAT by causing each examination sound to be started an integer- seconds after an original time point used for indicating the program elapsed time of the CD or DAT. CONSTITUTION:A CD player portion 2 is connected to an audiometer portion 1 to examine time resolution. Data such as examination sounds required for measuring the perception limit for a silent period DELTAt between successive sounds are modulated into speech signals, which are then recorded on a CD placed in the CD player portion 2. During examination, since the total of the lengths of the sounds before and after the silent period DELTAt is held constant, the interval between the starting times of the examination sounds is varied. Therefore, the silent period between the examination sounds is adjusted so as to set the interval between the starting times of the examination sounds to an integer- seconds. The CD or DAT is formatted to indicate the time elapsed from a reference original time point in seconds.
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PURPOSE:To realize a proper hearing aid to the symptom of a person suffering from brady-acuity of hearing by using an output voice signal subject to desired conversion processing concerning to a speech speed and a frequency component synthesis for an input voice signal. CONSTITUTION:The hearing aid is provided with processing signal input sections (1-5) to extract input voice signal at a 1st sampling frequency, signal processing sections (10a-10e) and processing signal output sections (20-25) outputting a voice signal from the processed signal at a 1st or 2nd sampling frequency and as the signal processing sections (10a-10e) are made up of an input signal envelope component calculation means 11, an input signal instantaneous frequency calculation means 13, a means 14 implementing frequency conversion processing such as frequency shift and band compression/expansion or the like for the instantaneous frequency component, a means 15 calculating an FM component from the instantaneous frequency component subject to conversion processing, and a multiplier means 16 between the envelope component and the FM component.
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PURPOSE:To provide the hearing aid which adjusts the output sound volume most suitably for a sense of hearing of an aurally handicapped person. CONSTITUTION:This hearing aid which amplifies an input audio signal by a variable amplifying part 3 to output sounds is provided with a time integrating means 6 which outputs an integral value in a prescribed time section of the input audio signal and a gain control means 7 which compares the output level of the time integrating means 6 with a preliminarily set limit level and variably controls the degree of amplification of the input signal in the variable amplifying part 3 based on the comparison result.
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PURPOSE:To attain listening similarly to direct hearing of external sound by ears by mounting a microphone unit to a side wall of an acoustic tube and supplying an output signal of the microphone unit to a sounding body. CONSTITUTION:Microphone units 4R, 4L are fitted to the side wall of acoustic tubes 2R, 2L and an output signal from the microphone units 4R, 4L is fed to sounding bodies 3R, 3L. Thus, a signal being the result of an audio signal from input terminals 11R, 11L mixed with a signal picked up by the microphone units 4R, 4L is supplied to driver units 3R, 3L. Thus, an external sound is listened to simultaneously, with the audio signal from the input terminals 11R and 11L.
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PURPOSE:To prevent a voice reflected in an eardrum from being reflected toward the ear drum again by forming one end of the acoustic tube formed to have nearly the same inner diameter as that of an external auditory meatus as an ear mount part, forming the other end as a voice resistive termination and providing an acoustic resistive member to the resistive termination side. CONSTITUTION:The acoustic tube 1 is formed to have nearly the same inner diameter (w) as an inner diameter w0 of the external auditory meatus A and a speaker unit 2 is mounted to one end of the acoustic tube 1 while a sounding face 2a is faced the inside of the tube. Then the ear mount member 4 to be mounted to an entrance C of the external auditory meatus A is fitted to one end of the acoustic tube 1, while the other end of the acoustic tube 1 is used as a resistive termination for voice, and the acoustic resistive member 6 to attenuate the reflected sound is provided to the resistive termination side being the other end by the speaker unit 2 in the acoustic tube 1. Thus, the incident sound is not reflected at the other end of the acoustic tube 1 again toward the eardrum B.