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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2020
Applicant:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/303 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01); H04S 2420/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method, an acoustic reproduction apparatus, and a program that can achieve more realistic acoustic presentation. The signal processing apparatus includes an acoustic transfer characteristic convolution processing unit that convolves an acoustic transfer characteristic according to a current position of a presentation destination of a virtual sound source among the acoustic transfer characteristic associated with each position in a space and virtual sound source data of the virtual sound source. The present technology can be applied to an acoustic reproduction system.