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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide live feeling of performing in the same space for players who are separately in distant places. SOLUTION: A play back device is provided with an inverse characteristic conversion section which converts the acoustic characteristic of one sound field to an inverse characteristic, a play back section which plays back music data, an acoustic characteristic output section which outputs an acoustic characteristic that differs from the acoustic characteristic of the one sound field, an adjusting section which adjusts the music data played back by the play back section based on the inverse acoustic characteristic of the one sound field converted by the inverse characteristic conversion section and the acoustic characteristic outputted from the acoustic characteristic output section and an output section which outputs the music data adjusted by the adjusting section into the one sound field. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reproduce main data in an optimum reproduction environment in a data reproducing device and method for performing reproduction processing by reading the main data, a recording medium for recording prescribed environment parameters, the main data and the prescribed environment parameters recorded on the recording medium. SOLUTION: A recording device comprises a reading part 20 for reading the main data and spatial characteristic data from the recording medium 1 for recording prescribed main data and the spatial characteristic data comprising spatial characteristic information in an environment different from an environment reproducing the main data, and a processing part 25 for performing prescribed reproduction processing on the main data on the basis of the spatial characteristic data read in the reading part 20. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reproduction method capable of selectively designating a content reflecting the emotional/mental state of a user. SOLUTION: The biological information of an audience in watching of a content of voice or music and/or image or the analysis result of the biological information is stored in a database in association with the identifier of the content. Prior to reproduction of a content of voice or music and/or image, a content corresponding to the emotional/mental state for a content of voice or music and/or image to be watched, which is designated by the user, is retrieved from the database on the basis of the analysis result of the biological information and presented to the user. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily catch speaking voice from sound information itself in contents such as a broadcasting program without discriminating speaking voice from other sound. SOLUTION: A broadcasting signal is obtained by multiplexing speaking voice period identifying information for indicating a speaking voice period when sound information is constituted of the speaking voice mainly or alone with video information and sound information of the program. The speaking voice period identifying information is detected and decoded by a system controller 17. A sound processing part 53 converts the level of the reproduced sound signal through the use of a setting value for setting input/output level conversion in a low-input level area and a setting value for setting input/output level conversion in a high-input level area. When a viewer indicates volume adjustment, the system controller 17 calculates the level of the reproduced sound signal and changes the input/output level of a boundary point between the low and high input level areas in a level conversion characteristic in response to the calculation result.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily, securely and accurately know a place related to the contents of a program, etc., such as a place where the contents are recorded in detail regardless elapse without inquiring of a broadcasting station, etc. SOLUTION: Additional information including map information and related position information is broadcasted while multiplexed with the contents. The related position information represents the position (place) related to the contents as the latitude and longitude. A broadcast receiving device detects the map information by a map information detection part 72, stores the map information in a map information storage device part 73, and detects the related position information by a related position information detection part 62. When the related position information is detected, that is displayed on the display screen of a video display device 35. When a viewer indicates the reproduction of the related position information, a map image wherein the position shown by the related position information is displayed with a mark in a map image based upon the map information stored in the map information storage device part 73 is displayed at part of the display screen.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the recording capacity of a recording medium effectively utilizable, without significantly increasing the capacity of the medium which is consumed for recording, even when the video recording of a program broadcast a plurality number of times is reserved, and at the same time, to significantly reduce the load of erasing operation imposed upon a user. SOLUTION: A system controller 80 discriminates whether the recorded past broadcast contents of the program are in an erasable state, when the video recording reservation setting information stored in a RAM 84 is updating video recording setting and when the contents are in the erasable state, it erases the recorded contents from hard disks 61-63 and records the latest broadcast contents of the program on the disks 61-63.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To always secure an optimum image after a single picture quality adjustment operation about the video software of the same authoring, genre or image characteristic. SOLUTION: A 1st memory 27 stores the picture quality adjustment data which are corresponding to a disk ID and a 2nd memory 28 stores the picture quality adjustment data which are corresponding to the meta-data respectively. When the ID of a disk to be reproduced is stored in the memory 27, the corresponding picture quality data are read out and adjusted. When the ID of the disk to be reproduced is not stored in the memory 27, the meta-data are detected and the picture quality adjustment data corresponding to the meta-data are read out of the memory 28 and adjusted. When the meta-data are not detected or the corresponding meta-data are not available, a prescribed picture quality state is set.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply retrieve, e.g. the speech part of a specified speaker and the performance part of a specified musical instrument even without inputting a mark, etc., when recording is performed. SOLUTION: This method compares one to a plurality of retrieval key audio characteristic parameters depending on the structural elements of sound sources about one to a plurality of the sound sources being retrieval keys with the audio characteristic parameter obtained by analyzing the audio signal of a retrieval object, calculates the similarity between both of them and retrieves a part that is similar to an audio signal from the sound source for a retrieval key in the audio signal of the retrieval object.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make voice output hardly interrupted and to make easily understandable the contents in a method for reproducing signals from a recording medium at a faster speed than normal speed and outputting the signals with normal interval. SOLUTION: Input data Si that are original reproduced voice signals obtained by double speed reproduction are divided into processing unit periods T1, T2, etc., that are equivalent to 60 ms each. In the period T1, a sound section and a silence section exist for 30 ms, no data are accumulated in an output buffer, the silence section is completely eliminated, the front and back sound sections are joined with each other and only the data in the sound portion are completely written into the output buffer. In the period T2, space is provided in the output buffer to store all data equivalent to 60 ms, thus, the data in the sound portion are written into the output buffer without making any changes to the data. In a period T5, no space is available to store data equivalent to 60 ms in the output buffer, the data of sound portion equivalent to 60 ms are compressed into 30 ms and then, the data are written into the output buffer.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a gain of a microphone from being decreased down to a degree causing difficulty in listening to voice due to a noise such as a breathing noise and to reduce fluctuation in a recording level and a loudspeaking level due to the fluctuation in the relative position between a talker and the microphone. SOLUTION: An analog voice signal from a microphone unit 110 is converted into a digital voice signal, which is given to a frequency band split filter section 130. The frequency band split filter section 130 uses a plurality of frequency band pass filters to divide the digital voice signal into a plurality of frequency bands. A level conversion circuit 140 receives each frequency band signal, applies level conversion to each frequency band signal for each band, synthesizes the band signals and provides an output. A control section 160 nonlinearly converts levels of each of the frequency band signals in the level conversion circuit 140 to decrease an amplification factor of the frequency band component with a higher input level and to increase an amplification factor of the frequency band component with a lower input level.