Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Gavin Kearney

Zexin Liu

Cal Armstrong

Bin Wang

Liyun Pang

Martin Pollow

Thomas McKenzie

Calum Armstrong

Lauren Ward

An apparatus provides personalized binaural audio rendering of an input signal. The apparatus has a left ear transducer configured to generate a left ear audio signal and a right ear transducer configured to generate a right ear audio signal. Moreover, the apparatus has processing circuitry configured to determine, based on a current target direction of the input signal, an adjusted current target direction using a personalized adjustment function that describes a functional relationship between a plurality of reference target directions of a reference sound signal and a plurality of perceived reference target directions of the reference sound signal as perceived by a user. The processing circuitry is further configured to implement a target direction renderer configured to generate based on the input signal and the adjusted target direction a first driving signal for driving the left ear transducer and a second driving signal for driving the right ear transducer.

Apparatus and method for personalized binaural audio rendering

An audio processing method includes processing, by M first virtual speakers, a to-be-processed audio signal to obtain M first audio signals; processing, by N second virtual speakers, the to-be-processed audio signal to obtain N second audio signals; obtain M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position; obtain a first target audio signal based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and obtain a second target audio signal based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs.

Audio processing method and apparatus

M audio signals are obtained by processing an audio signal by M virtual speakers; M first HRTFs and M second HRTFs are obtained, where the M first HRTFs corresponding to a left ear position, and the M second HRTFs corresponding to a right ear position; high-band impulse responses of some of the M first HRTFs are modified to obtain modified first target HRTFs, and high-band impulse responses of some of the M second HRTFs are modified to obtain modified second target HRTFs; a first target audio signal corresponding to the left ear position is obtained based on the modified first target HRTFs and un-modified first HRTFs, and the M audio signals; and a second target audio signal corresponding to the right ear position is obtained based on the modified second HRTFs, un-modified second target HRTFs, and the M audio signals.

An audio processing method includes: M first audio signals are obtained by processing a to-be-processed audio signal by M first virtual speakers; N second audio signals are obtained by processing the to-be-processed audio signal by N second virtual speakers; M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position are obtained; a first target audio signal is obtained based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and a second target audio signal is obtained based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs.

An audio processing method includes: M audio signals are obtained by processing an audio signal by M virtual speakers; M first HRTFs and M second HRTFs are obtained, where the M first HRTFs corresponding to a left ear position, and the M second HRTFs corresponding to a right ear position; high-band impulse responses of some of the M first HRTFs are modified to obtain modified first target HRTFs, and high-band impulse responses of some of the M second HRTFs are modified to obtain modified second target HRTFs; a first target audio signal corresponding to the left ear position is obtained based on the modified first target HRTFs and un-modified first HRTFs, and the M audio signals; and a second target audio signal corresponding to the right ear position is obtained based on the modified second HRTFs, un-modified second target HRTFs, and the M audio signals.

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Gavin Kearney