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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1999
Yuji Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhisa Ikeda, Chiba, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sound reproducing device including a signal processing device including a first signal processing circuit supplied with an input audio signal of at least one channel to convert the input audio signal to a 2-channel audio signal with which an acoustic image is located at a predetermined position when the input audio signal is reproduced substantially by a 2-channel speaker system, and a second signal processing circuit supplied with the 2-channel audio signal to subject the 2-channel audio signal to signal processing which is equivalent to a transfer function of the 2-channel speaker system to both the ears of a listener, thereby converting and outputting the input audio signal to a 2-channel audio signal. Also included is an earphone device including a pair of electro-acoustic transducers supplied with the 2-channel audio signal from the second signal processing circuit, and a detector for detecting movement of the head of the listener, wherein the second signal processing circuit performs the processing corresponding to an alteration of the transfer function in accordance with the output of the detector to control the location position of the acoustic image which is perceived by the listener.