Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Deutschland Gmbh

Sony Europe Limited

Michael Enenkl

Stefan Uhlich

Thomas Kemp

Fabien Cardinaux

Patrick Putzolu

Franck Giron

Marc Ferras Font

Andreas Schwager

Yuhki Mitsufuji

Piergiorgio Sartor

Naoya Takahashi

Ralf Mueller

An electronic device having circuitry, which is configured to estimate a distraction level of an audio object stream, and to modify the audio object stream based on the estimated distraction Audio object level to obtain a modified audio object stream.

Electronic device, method and computer program

An electronic device for a vehicle comprising circuitry configured to obtain information about a planned maneuver of the vehicle; and circuitry configured to determine the position and/or orientation of a sound field based on the information about the planned maneuver of the vehicle.

An electronic device comprising a circuitry configured to perform () blind source separation () based on a received input signal () to obtain separated sources; to perform () time-domain filtering () on at least one of the separated sources to obtain at least one filtered separated source; and to perform () remixing or upmixing () based on the at least one filtered separated source.

Device, method and computer program for blind source separation and remixing

The present disclosure pertains to an apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: determine a loudspeaker dependent spread factor for at least one individual loudspeaker of a loudspeaker arrangement, wherein the loudspeaker dependent spread factor depends on a specification of the at least one individual loudspeaker; and 5 control the outputs of the loudspeakers of the loudspeaker arrangement based on the loudspeaker dependent spread factor for the at least one individual loudspeaker to generate at least one virtual sound source.

Apparatus and method for generating spatial audio

It is disclosed a method comprising obtaining a target spectrum, obtaining a set of non-target spectra, the set of non-target spectra comprising one or more non-target spectra, summing the target spectrum and the set of non-target spectra to obtain a mixture spectrum, and training an artificial neural network by using the mixture spectrum as input of the neural network and by using a spectrum which is based on the target spectrum as desired output of the artificial neural network.

Method, system and artificial neural network

An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to perform () source separation () based on a received audio input to obtain a separated source, to perform onset detection () on the separated source to obtain an onset detection signal and to mix () the audio signal with the separated source based on the onset detection signal to obtain an enhanced separated source.

An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to obtain an audio signal of a first passenger of a vehicle and to control a loudspeaker array to generate at least one virtual sound source that reproduces the audio signal obtained from the first passenger, the virtual sound source being provided for a second passenger.

An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate one or more focused sound sources as virtual loudspeakers of an announcement system.

Apparatus, system, method and computer program for distributing announcement messages

An apparatus is provided which has a receiver configured to receive a media stream from a broadcast source and a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to obtain a specific media content included in the received media stream from a second source.

Apparatus and method for playing back media content from multiple sources

A loudspeaker system comprising a diaphragm () and an electrostatic foil () mounted on top of the diaphragm ().

Loudspeaker system

Provided is a sound source separation device that includes a combining unit that combines a first sound source separation signal of a predetermined sound source, the first sound source separation signal being separated from a mixed sound signal by a first sound source separation system, with a second sound source separation signal of the sound source, the second sound source separation signal being separated from the mixed sound signal by a second sound source separation system that differs in separation performance from the first sound source separation system in predetermined units of time, and that outputs a sound source separation signal obtained by the combination.

Sound source separation device and method

A loudspeaker comprising an acoustic waveguide (), the acoustic waveguide () being configured to change its shape in order to change the directivity of sound emitted by the loudspeaker

Loudspeaker, acoustic waveguide, and method

A device for active noise control inside a vehicle, the device comprising a processor () configured to determine a noise wavefield within the vehicle based on noise signals captured by a microphone array (M-M); determine the position of the ears of a passenger (P) based on information obtained from a head tracking sensor (HTU); capture a noise field inside the vehicle based on information obtained by the microphone array; obtain a noise level at the ears of the passenger (P) from the noise field; and determine an anti-noise field based on the noise level at the position of the ears of the passenger.

Electronic device, method and computer program for active noise control inside a vehicle

In method the following is performed: receiving input audio content representing mixed audio sources; separating the mixed audio sources, thereby obtaining separated audio source signals and a residual signal; and generating output audio content by mixing the separated audio source signals and the residual signal.

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Michael Enenkl