Sony Corporation

Yukara Ikemiya

Toshiya Hamada

Yuhki Mitsufuji

Nobuaki Izumi

Masafumi Takahashi

Keiichi Osako

The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method, and a program that can easily make a leaking sound difficult to hear. A signal processing apparatus includes a masking sound generation unit that, in a case where a first content is reproduced in a first region and a second content is reproduced in a second region by wave field synthesis using a speaker array, generates a masking sound for masking a sound of the first content and a sound of the second content heard in a region between the first region and the second region. The present technology can be applied to content reproduction systems.

Signal processing apparatus and method, and program

A sound source setting section and a listening setting section are each configured to have a parameter setting section, a display section, and an arrangement relocation section on a placing surface of a placing table in real space, the arrangement relocation section allowing the source setting and listening sections to relocate on the placing surface. A reflecting member to which a reflecting characteristic is assigned is configured to be placeable on the placing table. A mixing process section performs a mixing process and also generates an image at the position, in a virtual space, of the sound source setting section relative to the listening setting section, the image having a texture indicative of a sound source assigned to the sound source setting section. Sound mixing with respect to a free listening point is thus performed easily.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yukara Ikemiya