Yamaha Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Yukio Tada

Mitsuki Arita

Kazuya Kumehara

Hiroki Uchida

Jun Usui

Mitsuki Tanaka

Miho Kyoya

Toru Kamiwada

Yasuhiko Asahi

Takuro Sone

Youji Semba

Osamu Maeda

Nariyasu Hayakawa

Kiyohisa Sugii

Nobukazu Toba

Kazuki Takano

Jun Inoue

Hiroaki Sugimura

Takahiro Asano

Naoki Yasuraoka

Motoaki Miyabe

Tomomi Yokoyama

Akihiro Yoshizawa

Ikuro Ohshima

A device system includes an acoustic device, a sensor, and a sound processor. The acoustic device is configured to be worn by a user. A sensor is configured to detect a movement of a shielding object. The sound processor is configured to generate sound with a first sound quality for a block state in which the shielding object blocks a virtual sound source localized on an opposite side of the shielding object and emit the sound from the acoustic device. The sound processor is further configured to change a sound quality of the sound from the first sound quality to a second sound quality for a non-block state in which the shielding object does not block the virtual sound source, in response to the sensor detecting that the shielding object moves from a position blocking the virtual sound source.

Sound reproduction system and sound quality control method

A sound reproducing apparatus includes a speaker, a microphone, and at least one processor. The at least one processor performs a process that includes hear-through processing and noise cancellation processing. The process also includes a storage task and a reading task. When detecting an occurrence of the trigger, the reading task reads control information of the event information of which execution is instructed by the trigger. The reading task also executes the hear-through processing and the noise cancellation processing in the signal processing task.

Sound reproducing apparatus, sound reproducing method, and sound reproducing system

An acoustic device includes binaural speakers, a storing portion for storing a plurality of head-related transfer functions, and a signal processing portion for processing a sound signal with a head-related transfer function. Two or more function candidates are selected from the plurality of head-related transfer functions. Prescribed test sounds are emitted from the speaker. A function candidate to apply to the user is selected based on a discrepancy between a user-perceived location direction and the sound generation location direction for each function candidate.

Acoustic device and head-related transfer function selecting method

A sound control device includes: a first memory storing instructions; and a processor that implements the stored instructions to execute a plurality of instructions, including: a synthesizing task that synthesizes a synthesized sound signal from an input sound signal acquired from a sound input device and a reproducing sound signal acquired from a sound reproducing device; an outputting task that outputs alternately between the reproducing sound signal and the synthesized sound signal to a sound emitting device; a notification control task that outputs notifying information for causing a notifying device to notify for a notification period, which is an output period during which the outputting task is outputting the synthesized sound signal to the sound emitting device; and a registering task that registers, in a second memory, duration information specifying the notification period.

Sound control device, wearable sound device and control method

A speech providing device includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to perform acquiring a position of a user and a direction that the user is facing, and providing a speech corresponding to an area existing in a direction that the user is facing on the basis of the position of the user, to the user.

Speech providing device, speech reproducing device, speech providing method, and speech reproducing method

A voice providing method includes obtaining position information from a voice reproducing device, and performing processing, in a case in which a first position of obtained position information and a second position of a virtual talker are in a predetermined relationship, to cause the voice reproducing device to reproduce voice for the virtual talker to have a dialogue with a user with content according to the user.

Voice providing device and voice providing method

An acoustic device includes a member which divides an ear canal of a user and an external space when being attached to an ear or the ear canal of the user, a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to perform, acquiring a sound signal indicating a sound, applying a filter processing to the acquired sound signal, the filter processing being changed in accordance with a predetermined condition, and radiating the sound indicated by the sound signal applied with the filter processing to the ear canal.

Acoustic device and acoustic processing method

An echo removing apparatus that can remove an echo appropriately if the produced sound volume becomes large although the configuration is simple is provided. A control sectionswitches the operations of an echo suppressorand an echo cancellerin response to the volume value input from a volume operation section. If the volume value is large, the echo suppressoris operated and an echo is suppressed reliably. If the volume value is small, the echo cancelleris operated and double talk is enabled.

Echo removing apparatus

As the protocol used to transmit the MIDI message, TCP and UDP used widely as the transmission protocol are employed. A player terminal on the transmitter side classifies the transmitted MIDI message into the system exclusive message that should never be lost absolutely and other MIDI message. The player terminal on the transmitter side transmits the system exclusive message by using TCP with high reliability and transmits other MIDI message by using UDP with low reliability.

Transmission of MIDI using TCP and UDP

Operational states of one or more operators employed in a vehicle are detected to generate operational information corresponding to the detected operational states. Also, one or more traveling states of the vehicle are detected to generate traveling information corresponding to the detected traveling states. There is provided a table storing correspondency between various operational and traveling information and various sound control information, and sound control information corresponding to generated operational or traveling information is obtained with reference to the table. Sound signal is generated on the basis of the obtained sound control information to auditorily inform a user of the vehicle of the operational or traveling state of the vehicle. Contents of the table may be changed as desired by the user. There may be provided a plurality of tables so that the user can select any one of the tables.

Vehicle capable of auditorily informing its state and method for auditorily informing state of vehicle

A music session support method which enables each of players in a music session which is performed via a network to immediately recognize whether or not the other players are in the state of being able to participate in the session. A session support apparatustransmits sets of status information indicative of whether or not each of players is in a state of being able to participate in a session, and player identification information which identifies the players, to each of session terminals. Each of the session terminalswhich have received the sets of status information and player identification information causes a touch displaythereof to display the status information for each of the players. The session support apparatusacquires a set of status transition information indicating that a player of at least one of the session terminalsin which the detecting device has detected the performance preparatory operation has gone into the state of being able to participate in a session, and player identification information for a session terminal, from the session terminal. The session support apparatustransmits the acquired set of status transition information and player identification information to the session terminals. Each of the session terminalsupdates contents displayed on the touch displaythereof, based upon the status transition information and player identification information transmitted from the session support apparatus

Music session support method, musical instrument for music session, and music session support program

There are provided a download system and a download control method for portable players, which enable a user to download music data to the portable player by a simple operation, and a storage medium that stores a program for executing the download control method. The portable player includes a storage medium that stores music data having type data. A download device downloads previously stored music data to the storage medium of the portable player. A center station transmits music data having type data to the download device. In the download device, the type data of the music data stored in the storage medium is read in as known type data when the portable player is placed on a table. Type data input by a user is read in as desired type data. The type data of the music data transmitted from the center station is read in as new type data. When the desired type data is equal to the new type data and the new type data is different from the known type data, the music data transmitted from the center station is stored in a data memory device, and the stored music data is downloaded to the storage medium. Then, the new type data is written as known type data.

Method and apparatus for downloading data to portable devices

In response to a readout instruction, tone reproducing digital data are read out which include information indicative of tone generating events and time lengths. Then, degrading processing is performed to change the information indicative of tone generating events and time lengths, included in the read-out tone reproducing digital data, in accordance with payment of a necessary charge for the digital data, and then the changed tone reproducing digital data are output. By thus performing the degrading processing on the read-out tone reproducing digital data in accordance with the payment of the necessary charge when the digital data are to be transferred or reproduced, there can be achieved an advantageous effect of reliably preventing unauthorized use of the digital data.

Apparatus and method for processing tone reproducing digital data against unauthorized use

A karaoke apparatus is responsive to a request of a music piece for producing karaoke accompaniment to accompany a live singing voice of the music piece while reproducing a background video associated with the music piece. In the karaoke apparatus, a sound source device produces the karaoke accompaniment of the music piece in response to the request. A storage device stores video data representative of a piece of the background video which is associated with the music piece. The piece of the background video has a time length normally longer than a time length of the music piece. A central processing unit variably designates a read start point from which the piece of the background video should be reproduced. A drive device is responsive to the request for accessing the storage device to reproduce the background video from the read start point.

Karaoke apparatus using background video with variable reproduction

In addition to a music piece data file in which music piece data for a karaoke performance are stored, a BGP script file in which BGP script data (picture sequence data) are stored, and a picture data file in which plural still picture data are stored are disposed. The BGP script data describe the procedure of combining still picture data and switchingly displaying the synthesized data, and include music piece corresponding data corresponding to a specific music piece data, and genre corresponding data corresponding to the genre of a music piece. During a karaoke performance of a music piece, when a music piece corresponding data corresponding to the music piece exists, an image is displayed by using the data, and, when such a data does not exists, an image is displayed by using a data corresponding to the genre of the music piece. When a data corresponding to the genre does not exists or cannot be used, background still picture data corresponding to the genre are switchingly displayed.

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Yukio Tada