IP Library Granted Patent US 8,588,429
Granted Patent B2
US 8,588,429 · App. 12/863,704 · Granted Nov 19, 2013

Sound device and sound control device

Inventor: Masako Tanaka (Kobe, JP)
Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,588,429
App. No.
12/863,704
Granted
Nov 19, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The sound device includes an audio-information output unit, an analysis unit, an audio-division-spectrum output unit, a noise-division-spectrum output unit and a correction unit. The analysis unit receives audio information from the audio-information output unit, and then outputs sound spectrum information. The noise-division-spectrum output unit outputs sound-volume information for each critical band width of a noise, and the audio-division-spectrum output unit outputs the sound-volume information for each critical band width of the sound-spectrum information. The correction unit corrects the information from the audio-division-spectrum output unit based on the information from the noise-division-spectrum output unit. The audio-signal properties can be well corrected corresponding to the auditory-sense properties of the human, and thus the audio sound, in which an uncomfortable feeling to the auditory sense of the human has been adequately controlled, can be transmitted to a user.

Claims (17)

1. A sound device comprising:

an audio-information output unit configured to output an audio information;

an analysis unit configured to receive the audio information outputted from the audio-information output unit, and then output a sound-spectrum information of the audio information inputted thereto;

an audio-division-spectrum output unit configured to receive the sound-spectrum information of the audio information, and then output an audio-division-spectrum information indicative of a sound-volume information for each critical band width of the sound-spectrum information of the audio information inputted thereto;

a noise-division-spectrum output unit configured to output a noise-division-spectrum information indicative of a sound-volume information for each critical band width of a noise; and

a correction unit configured to correct the audio-division-spectrum information based on the noise-division-spectrum information, and then output a correction-division-spectrum information indicative of thus corrected audio-division-spectrum information, wherein the correction unit includes:

a difference computing unit configured to calculate a difference between the audio-division-spectrum information and the noise-division-spectrum information, and then output a difference information indicative of each calculation result of the difference; and

a computing unit configured to receive the audio-division-spectrum information and the difference information, and then weight and add the audio-division-spectrum information and the difference information respectively inputted thereto.

2. A sound device comprising:

an audio-information output unit configured to output an audio information;

an analysis unit configured to receive the audio information outputted from the audio-information output unit, and then output a sound-spectrum information of the audio information inputted thereto;

an audio-division-spectrum output unit configured to receive the sound-spectrum information of the audio information, and then output an audio-division-spectrum information indicative of a sound-volume information for each critical band width of the sound-spectrum information of the audio information inputted thereto;

a noise-division-spectrum output unit configured to output a noise-division-spectrum information indicative of a sound-volume information for each critical band width of a noise; and

a correction unit configured to correct the audio-division-spectrum information based on the noise-division-spectrum information, and then output a correction-division-spectrum information indicative of thus corrected audio-division-spectrum information, wherein the correction unit includes:

a switching unit including a plurality of division-switching units, each of the division-switching units being configured to pass therethrough or block the audio-division-spectrum information for each critical band width;

a switching control unit configured to receive the noise-division-spectrum information, and then control the switching unit to operate each division-switching unit so as to pass therethrough or block the audio-division-spectrum information based on the noise-division-spectrum information inputted to the switching control unit; and

a computing unit configured to receive the audio-division-spectrum information and an output from the switching unit, and then weight and add the audio-division-spectrum information and the output from the switching unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 20, 2010
From: TANAKA, MASAKO
To: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 024766/0338 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-015653 · Jan 25, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20100296659A1 · Nov 25, 2010