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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2012
Ryuichiro Kuroki, Hamamatsu, JP;
Masakazu Kato, Hamamatsu, JP;
Julian Ward, Birmingham, GB;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu-shi, JP;
Abstract
A speaker apparatus includes speaker units, a first inputting section to which one channel audio signal is supplied, a second inputting section to which at least L-channel and R-channel audio signals are supplied, an acoustic effect imparting section that performs a first signal processing on the audio signal supplied to the first inputting section to output L channel and R channel audio signals, an outputting section that outputs the audio signal supplied to the first inputting section to at least one of the speaker units, and a widening effect imparting section that performs a second signal processing for imparting a sound image widening effect on both the L-channel and R-channel audio signals and the at least L-channel and R-channel audio signals and supplies processed audio signals to speaker units for corresponding channels respectively.