Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Binaural and stereophonic – Pseudo stereophonic
Patent
1997-02-28
1999-08-31
Chang, Vivian
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Binaural and stereophonic
Pseudo stereophonic
381 61, 381 1, H04R 500
Patent
active
059464003
ABSTRACT:
A three-dimensional sound processing system which provides a listener with three-dimensional sound effects by reproducing a sound image properly positioned in a reproduced sound field. A filter coefficient enhancement unit creates two difference-enhanced impulse responses by emphasizing the difference between two sets of acoustic characteristics pertaining to a listener's both ears, which are represented as impulse responses measured in an original sound field. Based on the two difference-enhanced impulse responses, a series of coefficients of a sound image positioning filter are determined for every possible location of the sound source. A coefficient memory unit stores various sets of such filter coefficients separately for each sound source location. The sound image positioning filter configures itself with the series of filter coefficients retrieved from the coefficient memory unit according to a given sound source location, and adds the acoustic characteristics of the original sound field to a source sound signal. The sound image positioning filter also subtracts in advance the acoustic characteristics of the reproduced sound field from the source sound signal, using a separate set of coefficients representing inverse characteristics of the reproduced sound field.
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Chang Vivian
Fujitsu Limited
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