Sony Corporation

Kazunobu Kubota

Shinichi Inoue

An audio signal processing apparatus includes a high-frequency components extraction means for extracting high-frequency components higher than a predetermined cutoff frequency from the input audio signal and supplying them to satellite speakers by way of a predetermined high frequency range amplifier, a low-frequency components extraction means for extracting low-frequency components lower than a predetermined cutoff frequency from the input audio signal, a correlation reducing means for reducing the correlation of the high-frequency components and the low-frequency components of the input audio signal and a delay means for delaying the low-frequency components and supplying them to a subwoofer by way of a predetermined low frequency range amplifier.

Audio signal processing apparatus and audio signal processing method

An audio signal processing method that performs virtual acoustic image localization processing for sound source signals having at least one type of information among position information, movement information, and localization information based on this information there are a plurality of changes in this information within a prescribed time unit, a single information change is generated based on this plurality of information changes, and virtual acoustic image localization processing is performed for the sound source signals based on this generated information change.

Audio signal processing method and audio signal processing apparatus

A number (M) of sound source signals T, T, T, T, each having at least one information element of position information, movement information and localization information, are synthesized to N sound source signals SL, SR based on the information element where N is smaller than the number (M) of the sound source signals and the N synthesized sound source signals SL, SR having this synthesized information are localized in a virtual sound image. An amount of data to be processed can be reduced while virtual reality can be realized by the synthesized sound source signals.

Apparatus for and method of processing audio signal

An audio signal processing apparatus wherein an unnatural variation of the output signal level is prevented when the signal levels are corrected in an interlocking relationship between the input and the output to and from an arithmetic processing element, wherein correction of the output signal level which is performed in an interlocking relationship with correction of the input signal level is delayed by a time equal to a delay time by the arithmetic processing element.

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Saitama, Japan

Kazunobu Kubota