Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Seiichi Ishikawa

Katsuaki Satoh

Masaharu Matsumoto

Akihisa Kawamura

Hiroyuki Takewa

Mitsuhiko Serikawa

Shuji Saiki

Sawako Usuki

Shuichi Obata

Kazue Sato

Tsuneo Tanaka

Yoichi Kimura

Satoshi Takayama

Masayuki Misaki

Yasutoshi Nakama

Kousaku Murata

Hideaki Inoue

Hikari Hashimoto

Katuaki Sato

A speaker which is thin but which is capable of providing high-fidelity reproduction and ensuring a suitable level of sound pressure even when it is brought close to a wall. A closed chamber is formed behind one part of a disphragm mounted in an enclosure, and an open chamber is formed behind another part of the diaphragm. At least one voice coil driver unit is connected to the diaphragm. The phase difference between sounds radiated from the front and rear surfaces of the diaphragm is increased as large as possible by using an acoustic duct for the sound radiated through the open chamber, thereby minimizing cancellation of sounds and improving the sound pressure level.

Thin speaker having an enclosure with an open portion and a closed

A transfer function is determined in accordance with an amplitude characteristic and a phase characteristic. The transfer function is subjected to inverse Fourier transform. An imaginary part of a result of the inverse Fourier transform is set to zero and thereby the result of the inverse Fourier transform is converted into a converted result. The converted result is subjected to Fourier transform. The amplitude characteristic and the phase characteristic are updated in accordance with a result of the Fourier transform. Such processes are reiterated. A primary desired amplitude characteristic is corrected in accordance with the finally-obtained amplitude characteristic so that the primary desired amplitude characteristic is converted into a final desired amplitude characteristic. A final desired phase characteristic is determined in accordance with the finally-obtained phase characteristic. A second transfer function is determined in accordance with the final desired amplitude characteristic and the final desired phase characteristic. The second transfer function is subjected to inverse Fourier transform. Filter factors are calculated from a real part of a result of the inverse Fourier transform of the second transfer function. The calculated filter factors are set in a FIR digital filter.

Method and apparatus for calculating filter factors

An apparatus for changing a sound field, comprising at least two signal processing means, which can smoothly and continuously switch a sound field into an arbitrary sound field without a break of signals by alternately switching one of the signal processing means into the other.

Apparatus for changing a sound field

A speaker which is thin but which is capable of providing high-fidelity reproduction and ensuring a suitable level of sound pressure even when it is brought close to a wall. A closed chamber is formed behind one part of a diaphragm mounted in an enclosure, and an open chamber is formed behind another part of the diaphragm. At least one voice coil drive unit is connected to the diaphragm. The phase difference between sounds radiated from the front and rear surfaces of the diaphragm is increased as large as possible by using an acoustic duct for the sound radiated through the open chamber, thereby minimizing cancellation of sounds and improving the sound pressure level.

Thin speaker having an enclosure within an open portion and a closed

An apparatus for calculating a filter factor for a digital filter which can be simply constructed and in which the time period for calculation can be shortened as compared with conventional techniques. The apparatus has an input circuit for inputting a desirable frequency property, a division circuit for dividing the inputted frequency property into a plurality of frequency bands, and a calculating circuit for obtaining filter factors for realizing a frequency property of each of the divided frequency bands. The input circuit inputs the frequency property with a frequency resolution corresponding to the number of the filter factors. The division circuit performs a correction for a division so that the frequency property becomes zero from a frequency over the high cut-off frequency of a band-pass filter toward the Nyquist frequency of the frequency band corresponding to the transversal filter, the Nyquist frequency being 1/2 of the sampling frequency. The calculating circuit has a transformation unit for performing a Hilbert transformation or a linear phase transformation with respect to the respective frequency properties divided by the division circuit.

Calculation of filter factors for digital filter

A digital equalizer for audio system applications is based on a FIR (finite impulse response) digital filter whose amplitude and phase/frequency characteristics can be respectively independently established in accordance with input data representing an arbitrary amplitude/frequency characteristic and input phase data from which an arbitrary phase/frequency characteristic for the filter can be derived. In addition to audio frequency response equalization, the apparatus can be provided with a microphone howl suppression function.

Digital equalizer apparatus enabling separate phase and amplitude

In a tone-restoring apparatus, a first and a second hold circuit latch at a period of 2T data signals read from a digital memory in response to a first and a second address supplied to the digital memory, and a first and a second multiplier circuit multiply the data signals latched in the first and second hold circuit by a monotonically increasing weighting function W.sub.1 (x) (0.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.NT, 0.ltoreq.W.sub.1 (x).ltoreq.1) or a monotonically increasing weighting function W.sub.2 (x) (0.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.NT, 0.ltoreq.W.sub.2 (x).ltoreq.1). An adder circuit adds the output signals from the first and second multiplier circuits to each other.

Tone restoring apparatus

A multi-layer block to be developed into a disk having a honeycomb construction is initially developed into a columnar block, and then the bottom of the columnar block is radially developed for obtaining a core of a speaker diaphragm. A suitable circular thin layer is attached to the top and bottom of the core to complete a diaphragm. The columnar block may be developed by means of a cone-shaped tool into a truncated cone, and this truncated cone may be further developed into a flat disk by applying a force to the top thereof. Since the forces on development are applied to the block uniformly, the density of hexagonal sections of the honeycomb construction is uniform throughout the entire circumference of the core providing superior speaker characteristics.

Method of manufacturing a speaker diaphragm

An electrodynamic loudspeaker which comprises a generally rectangular flat vibrating plate, and first and second magnetic drives for driving the vibrating plate to produce vibrations. The first magnetic drive is so positioned as to drive the vibrating plate at a first location corresponding to one of two line nodes m.sub.1 and m.sub.2 of vibration of a first predetermined frequency f.sub.1 which would be produced when the vibrating plate is driven at the center thereof, whereas the second magnetic drive is so positioned as to drive the vibrating plate at a second location corresponding to one of four line nodes n.sub.1, n.sub.2, n.sub.3 and n.sub.4 of vibration of a second predetermined frequency f.sub.3 which would be produced when the vibrating plate is driven at the center thereof. Each of all of the line nodes extends in parallel to the shorter sides of the rectangular shape of the vibrating plate.

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Seiichi Ishikawa