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Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025

Filed:

Jun. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kazunori Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Ryotaro Sato, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/001 (2013.01); H04R 1/403 (2013.01); H04R 2201/40 (2013.01); H04R 2430/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

There are included a first speaker processing step in which a first speakerproduces sound based on a first filtered signal, a gain multiplication step in which a gain multiplication unitgenerates a gain multiplied signal by multiplying a second filtered signal by a gain, a second speaker processing step in which a second speakerproduces sound based on the gain multiplied signal, and a gain control step in which a gain control unitcontrols the gain such that a root mean square of a collected sound signal collected by a microphoneinstalled at a mute position, which is a position at which the sound produced by the first speaker and the sound produced by the second speaker are to be muted, is relatively small.


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