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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2011
Applicants:
Hiroaki Koga, Hamamatsu, JP;
Eiko Kobayashi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroaki Koga, Hamamatsu, JP;
Eiko Kobayashi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
YAMAHA CORPORATION, Hamamatsu-Shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/02 (2006.01); H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H03G 3/20 (2006.01); G10K 11/00 (2006.01); G10K 11/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/002 (2013.01); G10K 11/175 (2013.01);
Abstract
A masking sound outputting device includes: an inputting unit which receives a picked-up sound signal relating to a picked-up sound; an extracting unit which extracts an acoustic feature amount of the picked-up sound signal; an instruction receiving unit which receives instructions for starting an output of a masking sound; and an outputting unit which, in the case where the instruction receiving unit receives the instructions for starting an output, outputs a masking sound corresponding to the acoustic feature amount extracted by the extracting unit.