Fujitsu Corporation

Jvc Kenwood Corporation

Yamaguchi Mfg. Works, Ltd.

Toshiaki Nagai

Hisako Murata

Yumi Fujii

Masaya Konishi

Soichi Hama

Takahiro Gejo

Kuniaki Takachi

Kazuyuki Ozaki

Akinori Miyamoto

Shin-ichi Wakana

Hiroshi Yamazaki

Akira Fujii

Shinichi Wakana

Hiroshi Uchida

Takaaki Yamabe

Hidenori Sekiguchi

Shoichi Shiba

Mikiyasu Masaki

Shigejiro Yamaguchi

Kenji Ejima

A processing device according to this embodiment includes: a measurement signal output unit configured to output a frequency sweep signal whose frequency is swept as a measurement signal; a sound pickup signal acquisition unit configured to acquire L-ch and R-ch sound pickup signals obtained by picking up the measurement signal by a left microphone and a right microphone; an evaluation signal acquisition unit configured to calculate an evaluation signal in a time domain in accordance with the L-ch and R-ch sound pickup signals; an extraction unit configured to extract a partial section of the evaluation signal as an extraction section; a comparison unit configured to compare the L-ch sound pickup signal with the R-ch sound pickup signal using the evaluation signal in the extraction section; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the fit of the right and left microphones or the output unit is good or not based on the results of the comparison made in the comparison unit.

Processing device, processing method, filter generation method, reproducing method, and computer readable medium

An object of the present invention is to provide a processing device, a processing method, a reproducing method, and a program capable of performing appropriate processing. A processing device according to the present embodiment includes: an envelope computation unit computing an envelope for a frequency response of a sound pickup signal; a scale conversion unit generating scale converted data by performing scale conversion and data interpolation on frequency data of the envelope; a normalization factor computation unit dividing the scale converted data into a plurality of frequency bands, obtaining a characteristic value for each frequency band, and computing a normalization factor, based on the characteristic values; and a normalization unit, using the normalization factor, normalizing the sound pickup signal in the time domain.

Processing device, processing method, reproducing method, and program

An out-of-head localization filter determination system according to an embodiment includes headphones, a microphone unit, a measurement processor, and a server device. The measurement processor measures first ear canal transfer characteristics from a first position to a microphone, measures ear canal transfer characteristics from a second position to a microphone, and transmits user data related to the first ear canal transfer characteristics to the server device. The server device includes a storage unit that stores first preset data and a second preset data in association with each other, a comparison unit that compares the second preset data with the user data, and an extraction unit that extracts the first preset data according to a comparison result.

Headphones, out-of-head localization filter determination device, out-of-head localization filter determination system, out-of-head localization filter determination method, and program

To provide an out-of-head localization system, a filter generation device, a method, and a program capable of appropriate processing, an out-of-head localization system according to this embodiment includes a measurement device that measures transfer characteristics by using a microphone worn on a user's ear before the user U sits on a seat, an out-of-head localization device that is installed in the seat and performs out-of-head localization by using a filter appropriate to the transfer characteristics, and a server terminal that transmits the filter appropriate to the transfer characteristics to the out-of-head localization device on the basis of identification information of the user U.

Out-of-head localization system, filter generation device, method, and program

Provided are an out-of-head localization system, a filter generation device, a method, and a program capable of appropriate processing. A processing device according to an embodiment includes a frequency information acquisition unit that acquires frequency information on the basis of a frequency response of a filter used in filter processing on a reproduction signal, a time information acquisition unit that acquires, on the basis of the frequency information, time information of a reproduction signal, a time signal extraction unit that extracts, on the basis of the time information, a time signal corresponding to at least some time of the reproduction signal, a filter processing unit that performs filter processing on the time signal, and a gain acquisition unit that acquires a gain on the basis of the time signal not having undergone filter processing and a processed time signal having undergone filter processing.

Processing device, processing method, reproduction method, and program

A group delay compensation filter includes: a waveguide that has a first slot and that is configured to transmit a signal; and a first dielectric resonator that includes: a first dielectric, a first metal layer formed over a surface of the first dielectric, and a first opening provided in the first metal layer, wherein the first dielectric resonator is in contact with the waveguide with the first opening coupled to the first slot, and wherein the first dielectric resonator is configured to compensate group delay in a first frequency band of the signal.

Group delay compensation filter

A microphone according to an embodiment includes: an ear chip including a cylindrical part with a hollow part formed therein, and a contact part disposed outside the cylindrical part and configured to come into contact with an inner wall surface of an ear canal; a cable lead out to a gap between the cylindrical part and the contact part; and a microphone element disposed in the hollow part and connected to the cable.

Microphone and sound pickup method

A first sound detection unit is installed in a predetermined member forming a vehicle so as to detect solid vibration of the member and convert the solid vibration into an electrical sound signal. A second sound detection unit detects vibration of air inside the vehicle and converts the vibration into an electrical sound signal. A data recording unit records at least one of the sound signal detected by the first sound detection unit and the sound signal detected by the second sound detection unit in a recording medium. The sound signal detected by the first detection unit and recorded in the recording medium is corrected by using the sound signal detected by the second sound detection unit, or the sound signal detected by the second detection unit and recorded in the recording medium is corrected by using the sound signal detected by the first detection unit.

Driving information recording device, driving information playback device, controlling device, driving information recording method, and driving information recording program

An echo cancellation device includes an echo signal reduction processing unit that generates a transmitting signal in which an echo signal component is reduced from the acoustic signal; and a filter coefficient update determination unit that instructs the echo signal reduction processing unit to update the filter coefficient when the output voice signal corresponds to a voice section and the acoustic signal includes the echo signal component. The filter coefficient update determination unit calculates a feature value of the acoustic signal and instructs to update the filter coefficient when a difference between a first feature value of a frequency band equal to or lower than the target frequency and a second feature value of a frequency band higher than the target frequency is equal to or greater than a preset update determination threshold.

Echo cancellation device, non-transitory computer readable medium storing echo cancellation program, and echo cancellation

Provided is a noise signal suppressing device including: an input unit configured to receive a sound signal; a time/frequency converting unit; an independent peak spectrum extracting unit configured to extract a peak spectrum having independence; a persistence determining unit configured to determine that the peak spectrum having independence persists for a predetermined period or longer; a noise-signal suppressing unit configured to suppress the peak spectrum having independence as the noise signal. The independent peak spectrum extracting unit includes: a first peak extracting unit configured to extract a peak spectrum having higher energy than that of an adjacent frequency signal, and a second peak extracting unit configured to extract a peak spectrum maintaining a frequency interval of equal to or larger than a predetermined value with respect to a peak spectrum adjacent thereto as the peak spectrum having independence.

Device and method for suppressing noise signal, device and method for detecting special signal, and device and method for detecting notification sound

A stacked semiconductor device includes: a plurality of stacked integrated-circuit chips that are to be mounted onto a substrate and including at least one power-supply target chip; a decoupling through-electrode transmission line including a decoupling power-supply-side through-electrode wiring line coupled to a power-supply terminal of the at least one power-supply target chip and a decoupling ground-side through-electrode wiring line coupled to a ground terminal of the at least one power-supply target chip; a resistor and a capacitor provided one of the a plurality of integrated-circuit chips that is located at a termination of the decoupling through-electrode transmission line, the resistor having an impedance substantially equal to a characteristic impedance of the decoupling through-electrode transmission line, wherein the resistor and the capacitor are coupled in series.

Stacked semiconductor device

A filter circuit includes a plurality of integrator stages, each stage including a voltage-to-current converter to convert an input voltage into a current supplied to an output thereof and a capacitor coupled to the output of the voltage-to-current converter, a voltage charged in the capacitor being supplied to a next stage as an output of each stage, and a capacitor serving as a feed-forward coupling that couples the output of at least one stage of the plurality of integrator stages to a last output node.

Phase-compensated filter circuit with reduced power consumption

A spiral die assembly can obtain a homogeneous pipe body, an inflation film with/without drawing and a functional film by dispersing molten resin homogeneously, and the spiral die assembly is capable of being applied to various molten resins and extruding conditions. The spiral die assembly comprises a main bodyof said spiral die assembly, a mandrelhaving a spiral groovearound its outer surface inserted on the inside of the main body and a rotatable ringhaving a desired width fitted along the outer surface of the spiral grooveand fitted in a portion of a die cylinder which forms the inner surface of the main bodyin a range corresponding to both ends of the spiral groove

Spiral die assembly

There is provided a complex type sigma-delta analog to digital conversion unit that includes: a first subtractor; a first filter; a first analog to digital converter; a first digital to analog converter; a first sign controller; a second subtractor; a second filter; a second analog to digital converter; a second digital to analog converter; and a second sign controller, wherein the first sign controller inverts a positive/negative sign of an output signal of the first filter in response to a control signal and outputs it to the second filter, and the second sign controller inverts a positive/negative sign of an output signal of the second filter in response to the control signal and outputs it to the first filter.

Complex type sigma-delta analog to digital conversion unit and receiver

Provided is a measuring device which has a focusing unit for focusing light flux from a light source and irradiating it to a magnetic substance to be measured, a half-turn asymmetric element acting only on the light flux reflected by the magnetic substance to be measured and acting in such a manner that its action on polarization distribution in a cross section of the light flux has asymmetry nature about half-turn around an optical axis in order to obtain sensitivity to in-plane magnetization vector components of the magnetic substance to be measured, and a polarization split detector for detecting a light amount of a polarization component in one direction or separated each component of polarization components orthogonal to each other of the light which receives action of the half-turn asymmetric element so that the in-plane magnetization vector component in one direction can be measured separately from other components.

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Yokohama, Japan

Toshiaki Nagai