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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2005
Takashi Mitsuhashi, Tsurugashima, JP;
Yoshiki Ohta, Tsurugashima, JP;
Teruo Baba, Tsurugashima, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a sound reproducing system capable of accurately analyzing a reverberation characteristic of amplified sound including an arrival direction of a reverberation component, which is more natural, and has higher realistic sensation. A surround systemhas a speaker system, a signal processing apparatusfor recognizing a reverberation characteristic of a listening roomand adjusting a reverberation component of sound source to be amplified on the basis of the recognized reverberation characteristic, and a microphone arrayconstructed by a plurality of microphones M disposed in the listening roomand having the same characteristics, and in which distances among the microphones M are determined in advance. In the case where sound source is amplified and output from the speaker systemto the listening room, the microphone arraycollects amplified sound in a specific listening position in the listening room