Sony Corporation

Kaneaki Fujishita

Junichi Nagahara

Osamu Sakurai

Masayoshi Noguchi

Naoya Takahashi

Takashi Kanai

Sharanappagouda Patil

Masashi Fujihara

Yuki Yamamoto

Toru Chinen

Masayuki Nishiguchi

Shiro Suzuki

Mitsuyuki Hatanaka

Kazuhiro Sato

Kenji Nakano

Nobukazu Suzuki

Ryuichi Namba

Takahisa Tagami

Hiroharu Kato

Goro Shiraishi

Kazuki Sakai

Yukio Takeyari

An electronic apparatus and method for configuration of an audio reproduction system is provided. The electronic apparatus captures a set of stereo images of the listening environment and identifies a plurality of objects, including a display device and a plurality of audio devices, in the set of stereo images. The electronic apparatus estimates first location information of the plurality of audio devices and second location information of the display device. Based on first location information and the second location information, the electronic apparatus identifies a layout of the plurality of audio devices. The electronic apparatus receives an audio signal from each audio device and determines a distance between each audio device of the plurality of audio devices and a user location based on the received audio signal. The electronic apparatus determines an anomaly in connection of at least one audio device and generates connection information based on the determined anomaly.

Configuration of audio reproduction system

Various aspects of a system and method to process traffic sound data to provide in-vehicle driver assistance are disclosed herein. The system includes one or more circuits in an electronic control unit (ECU) of a first vehicle. The one or more circuits in the ECU are configured to receive sound data captured by two or more audio-input devices associated with the first vehicle. The sound data corresponds to sound emanated from one or more other vehicles. Thereafter, a relative position (distance and/or angle) of the first vehicle from a second vehicle of the one or more other vehicles is determined based on the received sound data. Further, an in-vehicle alert is generated for the first vehicle based on the determined relative position. The in-vehicle alert comprises a virtual sound representative of sound emanated from the second vehicle.

System and method for processing traffic sound data to provide driver assistance

The information processing device includes: a feature amount extraction unit configured to extract a feature amount from sounds in a predetermined space; an identification unit configured to identify a type of a sound included in the sounds from the feature amount; an information combining unit configured to generate sound statistic information in which the feature amount, the type of the sound, and spatiotemporal information of the predetermined space at a time of acquisition of the sound are associated with each other; and a database establishing unit configured to establish a sound statistic database by using the sound statistic information.

Information processing device and information processing method

To reduce the driving loss in the diaphragm, and to ensure a good sound output in the wide bandwidth. It includes a circular coil bobbin at least partly disposed between a yoke and a magnet, a coil wound around the coil bobbin, the coil being configured to be moved with the coil bobbin where a driving current is supplied to the coil, a piezoelectric element having one end coupled to one end of the coil bobbin in a movement direction, the piezoelectric element being configured to be expanded and contracted and moved in a direction same as the movement direction where an electric current is supplied to the piezoelectric element, and a diaphragm having an inner circumference part coupled to another end of the piezoelectric element, and a coupled part of the diaphragm to the piezoelectric element and a coupled part of the piezoelectric element to the coil bobbin are positioned on a straight line in the movement direction.

Speaker apparatus

Provided is a signal processing apparatus including a feature detection unit configured to detect, from an input signal, a detection signal including at least one of audience-generated-sound likelihood and music likelihood, a reverberation adding unit configured to add long or short reverberations to the input signal based on a detected tone being moderate or ordinary tone respectively, and a vicinity-sound generation unit configured to generate vicinity sound based on the detection signal.

Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program for adding long or short reverberation to an input audio based on audio tone being moderate or ordinary

Provided is an audio processing device including a narration canceling section configured to generate a narration canceling signal by removing a narration component from an input signal, and a reverberation adding section configured to add a reverberation effect to the narration canceling signal.

Audio processing device, method, and program

In an electronic device for implementing various functions using a DSP, the functionality can be updated as required. The electronic device is provided with a DSP and a flash memory for storing a program executed by the DSP. A program for implementing a new function implements both an old function and the new function, and for implementing a function corresponding to a version flag that has been set in version flags. When the program in the flash memory is updated to a program for implementing the new function, the program for implementing a new function is loaded into the flash memory, and a version flag corresponding to the new function is set in the version flags.

Method and device for updating program functions corresponding to a version flag

The present invention is concerned with an audio equipment capable of processing video signals and a method of displaying operation of the acoustic equipment. An input selector switchis supplied with reproduced audio signals from devices connected to a tuner unitand input terminals, and supplies a signal to a sound field processing DSP unit. A signal processed by the DSP unitis applied through a muting switchto an output terminal. An input selector switchis supplied with reproduced video signals from devices connected to input terminals, and supplies a signal to a graphic controller (GDC)which generates a video signal to display an image. One of a signal generated by the GDCand an original video signal are selected by a switch, and applied to an output terminal. The GDCalso generates an image simulating a control panel. When a key switchis operated, the display corresponding to the operated key in the simulating image is varied.

Audio equipment and method of displaying operation thereof

A multi-channel audio reproducing apparatus includes several audio power amplifiers, the number of which is less than the number of channels required for the multi-channel format of the input audio signals. The multichannel audio reproducing apparatus also includes a decoder for decoding input audio signals and a signal processor, arranged between the decoder and the audio power amplifiers, for receiving decoder output signals of a plurality of channels of the multi-channel format at the input channels thereof and for outputting, at the output channels thereof, audio signals of channels of a number less than the number of audio power amplifiers. A controller controls the signal processor in response to setting information of the connection and installation of a plurality of speakers to which the outputs of the audio power amplifiers are respectively supplied.

Multi-channel audio reproducing apparatus

An audio signal processing method wherein it is detected whether the data supplied from an optical disk reproduction apparatus or the like has continuous zero data for a predetermined period of time, and in the case where zero data continue for the predetermined period of time, it is determined that compressed audio data is involved, and the supplied data is decoded.

Method and apparatus for audio signal processing

A sound reproducing system in which virtual image orientation processing of audio signals for at least two rear speakers disposed in directions from a listener close to the right-back direction from the listener is performed by a virtual sound orientation processor so that the listener can have a sound image at a position different from each of real speaker positions at which the rear speakers are placed, and/or so that the listener is unconscious that sounds are radiated from the rear speakers placed at real speaker positions. This virtual image orientation processing is performed according to acoustic transfer coefficients of transfer of sounds from the rear speakers to the listener's ears when the rear speakers are placed at virtual speaker positions different from the real speaker positions.

Method of reproducing sound

The present invention is concerned with an audio equipment capable of processing video signals and a method of displaying operation of the acoustic equipment. An input selector switch 1 is supplied with reproduced audio signals from devices connected to a tuner unit 2 and input terminals 3, and supplies a signal to a sound field processing DSP unit 4. A signal processed by the DSP unit 4 is applied through a muting switch 5 to an output terminal 6. An input selector switch 7 is supplied with reproduced video signals from devices connected to input terminals 8, and supplies a signal to a graphic controller (GDC) 9 which generates a video signal to display an image. One of a signal generated by the GDC 9 and an original video signal are selected by a switch 10, and applied to an output terminal 11. The GDC 9 also generates an image simulating a control panel. When a key switch 13 is operated, the display corresponding to the operated key in the simulating image is varied.

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Kaneaki Fujishita