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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2018
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Kazuhisa Kotegawa, Osaka, JP;
Kiyohisa Higashi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A noise masking device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires (i) frequency information indicating a frequency of a noise in a vehicle or frequency-correlated information correlated to the frequency and (ii) vehicle information relating to a characteristic of the noise; a signal source that generates a masker signal for outputting a masker sound that masks the noise in the vehicle; a pitch-shifting unit that pitch-shifts the masker signal according to the frequency information or the frequency-correlated information acquired by the acquisition unit to generate a pitch-shifted masker signal; an adjustment unit that performs, on the pitch-shifted masker signal, an adjustment according to the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit to generate an adjusted masker signal; and an output unit that outputs the adjusted masker signal as the masker sound.
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