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EP0422955A2 Expired / Lapsed EP ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Sound field control system

Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1990-10-12
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2010-10-12
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Abstract

Abstract In the process of forming the effect sound for reproducing a sound field, a down-sampling part for reducing the sampling frequency of the digital signal is disposed before the step of the digital operation which becomes the central part of the forming process, by which a large amount of operation processing is carried out at a low sampling rate. With respect to the direct sound, processing such as gain adjustment is carried out without decreasing the sampling frequency. This is a sound field control system which permits to realize the higher quality and natural sound field control effect without much increasing the hardware scale.

Inventors

  • 👤 Mitsuhiko Serikawa
  • 👤 Masaharu Matsumoto
  • 👤 Akihisa Kawamura
  • 👤 Katsuaki Sato

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction EP
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-03 09:32
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04S; H04S1/00; H04S1/002; G; G10; G10K; G10K15/00; G10K15/08; H03; H03G; H03G5/00; H03G5/16; H03G5/165; H03H; H03H17/00; H03H17/02; H03H17/0248; H03H17/0264; H04S1/007

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim 95 words
A sound field control system comprising: down-sampling means for dropping a sampling frequency of an input digital audio signal from a normal sampling frequency to a lower sampling frequency than the normal sampling frequency; operation processing means for subjecting a signal outputted from the down-sampling means to digital operation processing to produce an effect sound signal; up-sampling means for recovering the sampling frequency of the signal outputted from the operation processing means to the normal sampling frequency; and addition means for adding the input digital audio signal and an output signal from the up-sampling means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 95 words
A sound field control system comprising: down-sampling means for dropping a sampling frequency of an input digital audio signal from a normal sampling frequency to a lower sampling frequency than the normal sampling frequency; operation processing means for subjecting a signal outputted from the down-sampling means to digital operation processing to produce an effect sound signal; up-sampling means for recovering the sampling frequency of the signal outputted from the operation processing means to the normal sampling frequency; and addition means for adding the input digital audio signal and an output signal from the up-sampling means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 33 words
A sound field control system according to Claim 1, wherein the signal outputted from the operation processing means is outputted as an exclusive signal for effect sound without passing through the up-sampling means.

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