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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2006
Applicant:
Tadashi Amada, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Tadashi Amada, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sound signal processing method includes calculating a difference between every few ones of input multiple channel sound signals to obtain a plurality of characteristic quantities each indicating the difference, selecting a weighting factor from a weighting factor dictionary containing a plurality of weighting factors of a plurality of channels corresponding to the characteristic quantities, weighting the sound signals by using the selected weighting factor, and adding the weighted input sound signals to generate an output sound signal.