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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2023
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Hikaru Usami, Osaka, JP;
Tomokazu Ishikawa, Osaka, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
An acoustic reproduction method includes: acquiring a first audio signal corresponding to an ambient sound that arrives at a listener from a first range in a sound reproduction space and a second audio signal corresponding to a target sound that arrives at the listener from a point in the sound reproduction space; acquiring direction information about the listener; performing, when a back range of the listener is determined to include the first range and the point based on the direction information, correction processing such that the first range does not overlap the point when the sound reproduction space is viewed in a predetermined direction; and mixing at least one of the first audio signal or the second audio signal and outputting the at least one thereof to an output channel.