Abstract:
A class D amplifier includes: an amplifier that generates a digital signal for driving a load based on an input signal; an attenuator that attenuates the input signal according to an attenuation command signal; and a clip prevention controller that outputs the attenuation command signal to intermittently attenuate the input signal when the digital signal is brought into a clip state or a near-clip state.
Abstract:
In the sound field control device of this invention, main signals and a surround signal are generated on the basis of input left and right 2-channel signals, and 4-channel main sound field signals and 4-channel surround sound field signals, which are respectively aggregations of reflected sound signals of various directions in the respective sound fields, are generated on the basis of reflected sound fields established with respect to the main signals and the surround signal. The 4-channel main sound field signals and the 4channel surround sound field signals of each corresponding channel are combined together and provided as 4-channel sound field signals to be produced as sound. Reflected sounds are created on the basis of reflected sound parameters of a certain established sound field, regardless of sound field components contained in a source signal and output as a sound field signal. By reproducing the sound field signals by sound field control loudspeakers arranged about a listener, an effect that gives to the listener the impression that he is surrounded by the sound can be created.
Abstract:
A sound field control device is capable of producing a sound field effect tone which has a tonal effect providing a listener with a feeling of presence and comprises a sound field effect tone generation circuit (36) for generating a sound field effect tone on the basis of sound field information supplied from a source and a source signal. The sound field effect tone is sounded simultaneously with reproduction of the source signal and a reproduced sound field produced on the basis of the source signal is controlled by this sound field effect tone. In one aspect of the invention, the sound field effect tone generation circuit comprises a convolution operation circuit (39) which subjects a signal derived from left and right signals from the source signal to convolution operation with sound field data derived on the basis of the sound field information from the source signal.
Abstract:
A sound field control device is capable of producing a sound field effect tone which has a tonal effect providing a listener with a feeling of presence and comprises a sound field effect tone generation circuit (36) for generating a sound field effect tone on the basis of sound field information supplied from a source and a source signal. The sound field effect tone is sounded simultaneously with reproduction of the source signal and a reproduced sound field produced on the basis of the source signal is controlled by this sound field effect tone. In one aspect of the invention, the sound field effect tone generation circuit comprises a convolution operation circuit (39) which subjects a signal derived from left and right signals from the source signal to convolution operation with sound field data derived on the basis of the sound field information from the source signal.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an integrated circuit which improves a sound quality compared with a conventional product, and incorporates a circuit for analog sound signal processing. SOLUTION: In the integrated circuit 10, analog sound signals input from input terminals 12, 14 are voltage-divided by a resistor network 20 composed of resistance elements R1, R2 and input to a non-inverting input terminal of an operational amplifier 22. An output signal from the operational amplifier 22 is voltage-divided by a resistor network 24 composed of resistance elements R3, R4 and fed back to an inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier 22. Signals from both the ends of the resistance elements R3, R4 are output from output terminals 16, 18. Each of the resistance elements R1 to R4 composing respective resistor networks 20, 24 is composed of a two-layer lamination structure of a tantalum nitride layer 30 and a tantalum layer 28. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display device capable of confirming that it is under activation processing after power activation, and to provide a control method. SOLUTION: When a user performs an operation so as to turn on the power, the display device 1 relating to this embodiment can reproduce and emit musical sound data stored in a musical sound data storage part 104 beforehand until activation processing in a signal reproduction part 102 is ended and video images and sound relating to reception signals are output. Thus, since the user can listen to the emitted musical sound from the display device 1 after the operation of turning the power ON, he/she can recognize that it is under the activation processing even when the video images and the sound relating to the reception signals are not output. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a television set capable of providing an external speaker device to be externally connected at a low cost and by free design, an AV system, an audio signal supplying apparatus and an audio signal processing method. SOLUTION: The television set 1 relating to this embodiment stores a plurality of parameters for an external speaker corresponding to the kinds of the external speaker device 100 in a storage part 25 separately from the parameters for an internal speaker for the parameters when adjusting the frequency characteristics of audio signals set to a sound quality adjustment part 22. By selecting the parameter for the external speaker corresponding to the kind of the external speaker device 100 connected to a connection terminal 29 and setting it to the sound quality adjustment part 22, the sound of similar frequency characteristics can be emitted even when the kind of the external speaker device 100 is changed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce loss in a power amplifying circuit which drives a capacitive load. SOLUTION: The power amplifying circuit comprises a pre-amplifying circuit 110 and a BTL-connected amplifying circuit 140 for amplifying input signals Vin and Vip, generating output signals, and driving a piezoelectric loudspeaker 120 as a capacitive load, a current measuring section 131 for detecting a consumption current of the BTL-connected amplifying circuit 140, and a control section 130 for controlling a voltage supplied to the BTL-connected amplifying circuit 140 according to the result of detection by the current measuring section 131 and the output signal of the comparator 132. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form, on the same semiconductor substrate, a plurality of circuits that operate at different power supply voltages. SOLUTION: A P-type semiconductor substrate 10 includes a first region AA and a second region BB. In the first region AA, a P-type MOS 22, an N-type MOS 32 and a P-type MOS 42 are formed, and in the second region BB, an N-type MOS 52 is formed. The P-type MOS 22 and the N-type MOS 32 constitute a circuit A, and the P-type MOS 42 and the N-type MOS 52 constitute a circuit B. A P well 60 of the N-type MOS 52 is electrically disconnected from the semiconductor substrate 10 by the N well 60. Thus a power supply voltage of 5.5 V-GND is supplied to the circuit A, and a power supply voltage of ±2.75 V can be supplied to the circuit B. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sound volume control circuit which can minimize residual noise of a DAC and also minimize an increase in cost due to use of a multistage volume for an analog signal. SOLUTION: A 1st variable gain part 2 controls the sound volume of digital musical sound data outputted from a decoder 1. A 2nd variable gain part 5 controls the sound volume of the output of the DAC. A microcomputer 11 makes the gain of the 2nd variable gain part 5 constant and sets the gain of the 1st variable gain part 2 to a value corresponding to a set value of a knob 7 when the set value of the knob 7 is ≥0 dB, makes the gain of the 1st variable gain part 2 constant and sets the gain of the 2nd variable gain part 5 to a value corresponding to the set value of the knob 7 when the set value of the knob 7 is