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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
May. 02, 2013
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Teppei Yokota, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01); G10K 11/175 (2006.01); B60R 11/02 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/175 (2013.01); G10K 11/178 (2013.01); H04R 3/007 (2013.01); B60R 11/0223 (2013.01); B60R 11/0247 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0017 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1053 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1282 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3221 (2013.01);
Abstract
A noise reduction apparatus includes: a speaker with a speaker unit held by holding means to make it possible to mix sounds emitted from front and rear of a vibration plate of the speaker; a microphone provided in an area where the sounds emitted from the front and rear of the vibration plate of the speaker are mixed and cancelled; and means for supplying a noise reduction audio signal obtained by phase-inverting an audio signal collected by the microphone to the speaker.