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PURPOSE:To provide a hearing aid device enabling even a person who has difficulty in hearing to listen sounds by HIFI streo. CONSTITUTION:This binaural type cordless hearing aid device including a transmitter 10 having an infrared ray generator 12, a receiver 30 having an infrared ray receiver 32 for receiving an infrared-ray signal from the generator 12 and a headphone 34 to be put on a head while using the hearing aid connected to the receiver 30 is constituted so that the infrared ray signal is modulated to carry stereo sounds.
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PURPOSE:To remove an oppressive sensation and to obtain a good stability outside a head by making the opening end part of an opposite side to the ear insersion part of an acoustic tube into a sound non-reflection end. CONSTITUTION:The respective one opening end parts of a pair of acoustic tubes 1L and 1R are made into a pair of ear insersion parts 2L and 2R. An acoustic signal being reflected by respective tympanums pL and pR is propagated toward the opening end parts 3L and 3R of the other side corresponding in the respective sound tubes 1L and 1R, however the opening end parts pL and pR of the other side are made a sound non-reflection end. Consequently, the acoustic signal which reaches the respective tympanums pL and pR and is reflected by the tympanums pL and pR no longer reaches the respective tympanums pL and pR again. Thus, the sense of a normal position inside the head and the generation of the oppressive sensation are prevented.
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PURPOSE:To prevent a voice reflected in an eardrum from being reflected again toward the eardrum and to allow the device to cope with various sizes of external auditory means by fitting a removable mount member to one end of an acoustic tube formed to have nearly the same inner diameter as that of an external auditory meatus and forming the other end as a nonreflective termination for a voice. CONSTITUTION:The acoustic tube 1 formed to have nearly the same inner diameter (w) as that of the external auditory meatus A and a speaker unit 2 mounted to one end of the acoustic tube 1 while a sounding face 2a is faced in the inside of the tube are provided to the device. Then an ear mount member 4 to be mounted to an entrance C of the external auditory meatus A is fitted removably to a mount member fitting position 6 at one end of the acoustic tube 1 and the other end is formed to be a nonreflective termination of voice. Thus, the incident sound is not reflected again at the other end of the acoustic tube 1 toward the eardrum B and the device can cope with the external auditory meatus A of various diameters.
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PURPOSE:To promptly, high-accurately, and stably detect the change of the direction of the head part of a listener by calculating the above-mentioned change based on the phase difference between the output signals of a pair of microphones to be arranged at two parts in the head part to pick up a detecting signal to be outputted from a detecting sound source. CONSTITUTION:For a headphone device 2, first and second microphones 3 and 4 are arranged for mutually separated two parts. A speaker 5 to be the detecting sound source is fixed and arranged to a position separated from the listener. An ultrasonic signal in a non-audible band is supplied from an ultrasonic signal source 7 to this speaker 5, and the speaker 5 outputs an ultrasonic wave to be the detecting signal. This ultrasonic wave is a so-called acoustic wave such as a bust wave for which the detection of its phase is made possible. The output signals of the microphones 3 and 4 are the signals obtained by picking up the acoustic wave to be outputted from the speaker 5, and an arithmetic unit 8 calculates the change of the direction of the head part based on the phase difference between the output signals of both the microphones and respectively processes the acoustic signals of a left channel and a right channel from an acoustic signal supplying source 16 based on transmission characteristics corresponding to the calculated direction of the above-mentioned head part.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reproduction device by which live feeling as if players perform together in a same space by exchanging both sound characteristics, when the players are located in remote places. SOLUTION: The reproduction device includes: a reverse characteristic conversion section for converting a sound characteristic of one sound field to a reverse characteristic; a reproduction section for reproducing a music data; a sound characteristic output section for outputting a sound characteristic different from the sound characteristic of one sound field; an adjusting section for adjusting the music data which is reproduced by the reproduction section, based on the sound characteristic which is output by the sound characteristic output section; and an output section for outputting the music data which is adjusted by the adjustment section to one sound field. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an optimum reproduced sound based upon sound characteristics of a listening room etc., and sound characteristics of a music source. SOLUTION: Sound characteristics of audio data are determined by analyzing metadata retrieved from a database, and sound characteristics when the audio data are reproduced are adjusted based upon the sound characteristics of the audio data and in-room sound characteristics in a reproduction sound field space. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new improved voice signal generating device capable of forming a suitable sound field. SOLUTION: Provided is the voice signal generating device 115 including a converter 140 which converts voice information and sound source position information to generate summarized voice information and summarized sound source position information in order to put (n) (n: an integer of ≥2) virtual sound source groups present in a prescribed range together into ≤(n-1) virtual sound source groups, and a voice signal generator 130 which generates voice signals of (m) channels for generating a virtual sound source through wave front composition using the voice information and sound source position information, and the summarized voice information and summarized sound source position information generated by the converter. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new improved sound field reproducing device, voice signal generating device, sound field reproducing method, and computer program that can transmit a reinforced low-pitched sound to the entire listening area of listeners without spatially causing interference. SOLUTION: Provided is the voice signal generating device including an amplifier which amplifies low-frequency voice information being information, included in voice information, of a frequency range below a prescribed frequency to generate amplified low-frequency voice information, and a voice signal generator which generates voice signals of (m) channels for generating a virtual sound source through wave front composition by using the voice information, the amplified low-frequency voice information and sound-source position information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a listener who is not on an axis of symmetry in the middle between right and left speakers to perceive a surround sound from the rear and a spread by using a front surround system. SOLUTION: Main signal generating circuits 34L and 34R generate main signals SLm and SRm wherein transfer characteristics from an array speaker system SPAr to a listening area are canceled and transfer characteristics from the rear to the listening area are convolved from audio signals SL and SR of rear channels, and auxiliary signal generating circuits 35L and 35R generate opposite-phase signals from the main signals SLm and SRm and also generate auxiliary signals SLa and SRa by delaying phases of at least the opposite-phase signals. A sound field composite signal generating circuit 36 generates a plane wave from the auxiliary signals SLa and SRa and supplies it to the array speaker system SPAr. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a signal regeneration apparatus and a method, capable of positioning a clear virtual sound image at an optimal position in a regeneration sound field. SOLUTION: In a signal regeneration apparatus 1, a sound image information extraction processor 24 separates music sounds of each sound source included in an audio data. Also, a sound source signal calculation processor 26 calculates a control parameter for shifting a sound source located near a listening point to a position in which a listener has a sensitive distance perception, and calculates a control parameter for relocating the sound image positioned remotely to a farther position. Further, by resynthesizing a particular sound source signal in a virtual sound source position calculated in a virtual sound source calculation processor 25, the presence of a virtual sound field is made remarkable. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT