Sony Corporation

Masayoshi Noguchi

Gen Ichimura

Makoto Yamada

Nobukazu Suzuki

Yuichi Inomata

Masashi Fujihara

Tadashi Fukami

Kaneaki Fujishita

Naoya Takahashi

Masaaki Ueki

Junji Ono

Kohei Asada

Toru Chinen

Kazuaki Toba

Minoru Tsuji

Shinichi Fukuda

Koyuru Okimoto

Makoto Akune

Tadaaki Kimijima

Jun Kishigami

Ryuichi Namba

Kazunobu Ookuri

Goro Shiraishi

Toshihiko Takahashi

Kazuki Sakai

Hideya Muraoka

The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method that are capable of reproducing sound at an optional listening position with a high sense of reality. The signal processing apparatus includes a rendering unit that generates reproduction data of sound at an optional listening position in a target space on the basis of recording signals of microphones attached to a plurality of moving bodies in the target space. The present technology can be applied to a reproduction apparatus.

Signal processing apparatus and method

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

A volume correction device includes: a variable gain means for controlling a gain, given to an input audio signal, according to a gain control signal; a consecutive relevant sounds interval detection means for detecting a consecutive relevant sounds interval, during which a group of temporally adjoining consecutive relevant sounds is present, in the input audio signal; a mean level detection means for detecting the mean level of the input audio signal attained during the consecutive relevant sounds interval, and whose time constant for mean level detection is set to a smaller value during the leading period of the consecutive relevant sounds interval than during the remaining period; a gain control signal production means for producing the gain control signal, so that the mean level will be equal to a reference level, and feeding the gain control signal to the variable gain means.

Volume correction device, volume correction method, volume correction program, and electronic equipment

A sound volume correcting device includes: a variable gain unit controlling a gain of an input audio signal on the basis of a gain control signal; a voice average level detector detecting an average level of a human voice signal in the input audio signal; and a gain control signal generator generating the gain control signal for controlling the gain of the input audio signal using the average level of the human voice signal detected by the voice average level detector as a reference level and supplying the generated gain control signal to the variable gain unit.

Sound volume correcting device, sound volume correcting method, sound volume correcting program, and electronic apparatus

Audio signal processing apparatus is disclosed. The audio signal processing apparatus includes a first audio signal extracting section, a second audio signal extracting section, a sense-of-depth controlling section, a sense-of-sound-expansion controlling section, a control signal generating section, and a mixing section. The first audio signal extracting section extracts a main audio signal. The second audio signal extracting section extracts a sub audio signal. The sense-of-depth controlling section processes the extracted main audio signal to control a sense of depth. The sense-of-sound-expansion controlling section processes the extracted sub audio signal to vary a sense of sound expansion. The control signal generating section generates a first control signal with which the sense-of-depth controlling section is controlled and a second control signal with which the sense-of-sound-expansion controlling section is controlled. The mixing section mixes an output audio signal of the sense-of-depth controlling section and an output audio signal of the sense-of-sound-expansion controlling section.

Audio signal processing apparatus, audio signal processing method, program, and input apparatus

An audio signal processing apparatus includes a localization direction detector that detects localization directions of two-channel input audio signals, a localization direction distribution calculator that calculates a distribution of the localization directions detected by the localization direction detector, a gain table information recording unit that records gain table information defining weights corresponding to respective localization angles, a gain generator that generates a gain corresponding to an output audio signal on the basis of the distribution calculated by the localization direction distribution calculator and the gain table information recorded in the gain table information recording unit, and a synthesizing unit that synthesizes the two-channel input audio signals using the gain generated by the gain generator.

Audio signal processing apparatus, audio signal processing method, and program

A device for performing predetermined processing on an input signal that may have a signal amplitude of more than one bit. The input signal is obtained by subjecting one-bit serial signals to predetermined signal processing, wherein the signal amplitude of more than one bit is converted to a one-bit serial signal by accumulating the signal amplitudes that exceed one bit, delaying the accumulated signal on the basis of the input signal, and outputting the accumulated signal.

Digital signal processing device and digital signal processing method

The present invention provides a digital signal processing apparatus which can perform batch processing of mixing and gain controlling, etc., one time while the frequency characteristics of different filters are being mixed to a plurality of input signals in case of the re-quantization only once. The present invention provides a digital signal processing apparatus for outputting a 1-bit digital signal by performing a delta sigma modulation process on a plurality of input signals, which includes a plurality of integrating unit, a plurality of feedforward arithmetic units that supply an arithmetic result calculated based on an independent feedforward coefficient to each input signal, to each of the plurality of the integrating units, a quantizing unit that quantizes the integrated output outputted from one of the plurality of the integrating unit, a plurality of feedback arithmetic units that supply an arithmetic result obtained by calculating quantized data outputted from the quantizing unit based on the independent feedback coefficient, to each of the plurality of the integrating units, and a mixing unit that mixes the output of the integrating unit of the front stage, the output of the feedforward arithmetic unit and the output of the feedback arithmetic unit and supplies the mixed result to the integrating unit of the rear stage.

Digital signal processing apparatus and digital signal processing method

The present invention aims to realize linking of 1-bit signals having respective sampling frequencies that are different from each other and show a relationship of one equal to integer times of the other without noises.

A delta-sigma modulator and delta-sigma modulation method according to the present invention are capable of ensuring a stable 1-bit signal having less distortion at the transition time from an audio signal reproduction state to soundless state while maintaining high sound quality during reproduction of an audio signal representing music or the like, and, at the same time, capable of maintaining high sound quality at the transition time from a soundless state to audio signal reproduction state. The delta-sigma modulator applies delta-sigma modulation to an input signal to output a 1-bit digital signal, and comprises an integration section that applies integration to the input signal, a quantization section that quantizes the integrated output from the integration section, a random noise generation section that generates a random noise signal whose gain has been adjusted based on the integrated output of the integration section, a detection section that detects a predetermined pattern from the input signal, and a changeover section that switches supply and suspension of supply of the random noise signal from the random noise generation section to the quantization section based on a detection result of the detection section.

Delta-sigma modulator and delta-sigma modulation method

A signal encoding apparatus encodes one-bit signals of a plurality of n channels in a delta-sigma manner. The apparatus includes a phase modulator for phase-modulating the one-bit signals as original signals to add data of inverted phases to the one-bit signals. Information data related to the one-bit signals are added to the phase-modulated one-bit signal by rearranging the data of inverted phases based on a plurality of m channel units of the n channels, where n&#x2267;m&#x2267;2 and by exclusive ORing the information data and the phase-modulated one-bit signal data.

Digital signal encoding apparatus and method, digital signal decoding apparatus and method, and digital signal transmission system

An apparatus for processing a digital signal that generates a one-bit output signal using a delta-sigma modulation apparatus, which includes a quantizer for quantizing an integrated output of a sixth integrator to generate a one-bit output signal that is send to respective integrators through an adder under feedback processing to output the one-bit output signal to the outside of a six-order Delta-sigma modulator, and a control unit for generating a control signal that controls the feedback loop signal from the quantizer so as to change the signal level of a signal component of the audio frequency band of the one-bit output signal. The control unit receives an integrated output from a second integrator being an input side integrator of the six-order delta-sigma modulator.

A muting circuit for muting a 1-bit digital signal which is not in need of a special circuit configuration, which a muting signal for muting the 1-bit digital signal is selected such that the inhibiting frequencies of an infinite response filter used for converting the 1-bit digital signal will be coincident with the spectrum distribution of the muting signal generated responsive to a muting command.

Method of muting a digital signal and a digital signal recording apparatus and a digital signal processing apparatus employing the digital signal muting method

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing digital audio signal on a recording medium such as a magnetic tape, which includes a recording and/or reproducing unit, an analog-to-digital convertor, a decimation filter, and noise shaper. The recording and/or reproducing unit records and/or reproduces signal on a recording medium at a speed double relative moving speed of a head and the recording medium at least. The analog-to-digital convertor converts input analog audio signal into digital signal with a sampling frequency which is above the audio frequency band, and sufficiently higher than the maximum frequency capable of recording by the recording and/or reproducing unit. The decimation filter reduces the sampling frequency of the digital signal output from the analog-to-digital convertor, and converts it into digital signal of m-bit (m&gt;n). The noise shaper converts the digital signal from the decimation filter from m-bit to n-bit, and then in requantizing, shapes noise so as to suppress within the audio frequency band, and supplies it to the recording and/or reproducing unit.

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