Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jae-youn Cho

Dong-hyun Lim

Hae-kwang Park

Eun-mi Oh

Yoon-jae Lee

Seung-yeol Lee

Sun-min Kim

Ki-beom Kim

Weiwei Cui

In-woo Hwang

Seung-kwan Yoo

Han-ki Kim

Young-suk Song

Ki-woong Kang

Ji-ho Chang

Jin-sung Kim

Jeong-su Kim

Sang-chul Ko

Anant Baijal

Sang-Yoon Kim

Byeong-seob Ko

Jae-hoon Jeong

Dong-Kyu Park

Ki-wan Eom

Byeong-geun Cheon

Joon-ho Son

Dong-hyun Jung

Jung-eun Park

The disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus including: a user input unit; an audio output unit; and a processor configured to identify whether a changing pattern of audio volume levels is present based on a history of the audio volume levels set by a user for a predetermined period of time, perform automatic volume-level control, by which an audio volume level of the audio output unit is controlled based on the changing pattern of the audio volume levels, based on presence of the corresponding pattern, and perform no automatic volume-level control, based on absence of the changing pattern of the audio volume levels.

Electronic apparatus and control method thereof for performing automatic volume-level control

A speech enhancement method is provided. The speech enhancement method includes: estimating a direction of a speaker by using an input signal, generating direction information indicating the estimated direction, detecting speech of a speaker based on a result of the estimating the direction, and enhancing the speech of the speaker by using the direction information based on a result of the detecting the speech.

Speech enhancement method and apparatus for same

A method of processing an audio signal is provided. The method includes acquiring location information and performance information of a speaker configured to output an audio signal, selecting a frequency band based on the location information, determining a section to be strengthened from the selected frequency band with respect to the audio signal based on the performance information, and applying a gain value to the determined section.

Method and apparatus for processing audio signal based on speaker location information

Provided is a method of operating an acoustic event detecting apparatus including: receiving an acoustic input; extracting frequency characteristics of the acoustic input; determining whether a first acoustic event has occurred by analyzing the extracted frequency characteristics; and in response to determining that the first acoustic event has occurred, acquiring data about at least one of a sound, an image, and a video from an environment outside of the acoustic event detecting apparatus and transmitting the data to a first device.

Sound event detecting apparatus and operation method thereof

An electronic device providing a smart sound mode is provided. The electronic device includes: a user command receiver; an inputter; an outputter; and a processor configured to: in response to a predetermined event occurring, provide a user interface (UI) for guiding setting of a smart sound mode; in response to the smart sound mode being selected according to a user command input through the user command receiver, individually render a first sound signal which is a common component among a plurality of channels forming the sound signal and a second sound signal which is a differential component among the plurality of channels based on whether the first sound signal comprises a voice and whether the second sound signal comprise a sound effect, mix the first and second sound signals which are rendered into a multi-channel sound signal and control the outputter to output the multi-channel sound signal.

Electronic device and control method thereof

According to an aspect of an embodiment, a stereophonic sound reproduction apparatus includes: an input unit for receiving an acoustic signal; a control unit for acquiring an output acoustic signal for generating a virtual sound source for the received acoustic signal; and an output unit for outputting the acquired output acoustic signal by using a front speaker and a side speaker, wherein the control unit generates an attenuation signal that is a signal for attenuating or cancelling an inflow acoustic signal to be directly transferred to an audience in the output acoustic signal output from the side speaker, and the generated output acoustic signal includes the attenuation signal.

Three-dimensional sound reproduction method and device

A display apparatus includes a speaker, a storage configured to store first rendering type information and second rendering type information based on a volume level of each content genre; a display, and a processor configured to render a sound signal of a content based on at least one of the first rendering type information and the second rendering type information corresponding to a genre of the content on the display and output the rendered sound signal through the speaker, wherein the processor, based on a volume level which is currently set in the display apparatus being within a predetermined range, renders the sound signal based on third rendering type information which is obtained by applying a weight according to the set volume level to at least one of the first rendering type information and the second rendering type information.

Display apparatus and controlling method thereof

Provided is a method of processing an audio signal, the method performed by a device and including dividing the audio signal into a main signal and a background signal; obtaining position information about a main speaker and an auxiliary speaker; mixing the main signal and the background signal, based on the position information; and outputting the mixed main signal and the mixed background signal to the main speaker and the auxiliary speaker, respectively.

Method and device for outputting audio signal on basis of location information of speaker

An audio signal processing method and an audio signal processing apparatus for synchronizing audio based on synchronization error between audio signals.

Audio signal processing method and audio signal processing apparatus

A robust method and apparatus to detect voice activity based on the power level of an audio frame. The method may include performing primary active/non-active voice period determination of an input audio frame according to a power level of the audio frame, extracting a noise power prediction value and a signal power prediction value by referring to power levels of current and previous audio frames according to a primary active/non-active voice period determination value, and performing secondary active/non-active voice period determination for the input audio frame by comparing the extracted signal power prediction value with the extracted noise power prediction value.

Method and apparatus for detecting voice activity by using signal and noise power prediction values

Provided are a method and apparatus for detecting a pitch period of an input signal, the method including: generating division frames by dividing the input signal by a unit of a first predetermined number of samples at a time domain; detecting a reference sample which has a peak value in each division frame; generating extraction frames by extracting a second predetermined number of samples on the basis of the reference sample of each division frame; and detecting the pitch period of the input signal based on a similarity among the extraction frames.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jae-youn Cho