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Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2023
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);

Inventors:

Seigo Enomoto, Kyoto, JP;

Ko Mizuno, Osaka, JP;

Tomokazu Ishikawa, Osaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/304 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01); H04S 2420/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

An acoustic reproduction method includes: obtaining information indicating sounds that reach a listener in a sound reproduction space and direction information indicating a direction in which the head of the listener is oriented; judging whether a first direction in which a first sound reaches the listener and a second direction in which a second sound reaches the listener are in plane symmetry with respect to a predetermined plane that passes through both ears of the listener and is perpendicular to the direction in which the head of the listener is oriented, the first and the second sounds being included in the sounds indicated in the information obtained; performing processing on sound information indicating the second sound when the first and the second directions are judged to be in plane symmetry, the processing being change processing of changing the second direction; and outputting the sound information subjected to the change processing.


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