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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1998
Filed:
May. 19, 1997
Jun Koizumi, Wako, JP;
Minoru Kobayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, Ltd, Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
An audio playback system wherein upon selection of a music genre there is made an automatic setting to an optimum frequency characteristic and at the same time a constant sound volume characteristic is obtained irrespective of the selected music genre. The audio playback system includes a memory which stores optimum equalizer characteristics and sound volume characteristics for plural music genre respectively, a mode setting device for setting a mode for each music genre by operation from the exterior, an equalizer characteristic selector for selecting a corresponding equalizer characteristic from the memory on the basis of the mode set by the mode setting device, and a sound volume characteristic selector for selecting a corresponding sound volume characteristic from the memory on the basis of the mode set by the mode setting device, wherein a sound is reproduced in accordance with the equalizer characteristic and sound volume characteristic selected by the equalizer characteristic selector and the sound volume characteristic selector, respectively.