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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2005
Filed:
May. 26, 2000
Wataru Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
OpenHeart Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
A Limited Responsibility Company, Research Network, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
To provide a method for localizing sound image of reproducing sound outside right and left speakers, by processing and controlling audio signals which allows sound image localization outside the speakers for reproducing the controlled audio signals by means of a very concise hardware architecture. When the audio signalsL,R of right and left channels recorded on fit media for stereophonic reproduction are reproduced, process to emphasize a factor of a sense of direction that listener's hearing has is applied by delaying phase characteristic of the audio signalsL,R without change of frequency characteristics with increase in frequency to drive the speakersL ,R of right and left channels.