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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2023
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Hiraku Okumura, Hamamatsu, JP;
YAMAHA CORPORATION, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
An audio signal processing method obtains a plurality of audio signals, determines a type of each audio signal of the plurality of audio signals, sets positions of a plurality of virtual speakers, generates, in a case where an audio signal among the plurality of audio signals is determined to be a first type, a first audio signal by performing localization processing on the audio signal determined to be the first type to localize an acoustic image of the first audio signal at a position of any one virtual speaker of the plurality of virtual speakers, generates, in a case where an audio signal among the plurality of audio signals is determined to be a second type, a second audio signal by performing distributed processing on the audio signal determined to be the second type to distribute and localize an acoustic image of the second audio signal at positions of two or more virtual speakers of the plurality of virtual speakers, generates an addition signal by adding the first audio signal and the second audio signal, and outputs the addition signal to a plurality of real speakers.