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US 10,425,726 · App. 15/769,503 · Granted Sep 24, 2019

Signal processing device, signal processing method, and program

Inventors: Masafumi Takahashi (Kanagawa, JP); Atsushi Izumihara (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Sony Corporation
H04R3/005G01S5/30G01S19/51H03G3/3005H04N7/147H04N7/15H04R1/406H04R3/12H04S7/302H04L65/403H04M3/568H04R2203/12H04R2430/01H04R2430/20H04S2400/13H04S2400/15
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Patent No.
US 10,425,726
App. No.
15/769,503
Granted
Sep 24, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a program that can provide sound with more increase in realistic sense by restoring a difference of sound pressure between sound sources. The signal processing device includes: an acoustic signal obtaining unit that obtains an acoustic signal; a sound source positional information obtaining unit that obtains sound source positional information relating to a distance between a sound source and a sound collecting unit that collects sound from the sound source; a listening positional information obtaining unit that obtains listening positional information relating to a distance between a reproducing device that reproduces the acoustic signal and a listener who listens to sound reproduced by the reproducing device; and a correcting unit that corrects gain of the acoustic signal on a basis of the sound-source positional information and the listening positional information. The present technology can be applied to, e.g., a TV telephone system.

Claims (63)

1. A signal processing device comprising:

memory storing instructions:

a processor configured to implement the instructions to cause the signal processing device to:

obtain an acoustic signal;

obtain sound source positional information relating to a distance between a sound source and a sound collecting unit that collects sound from the sound source;

obtain listening positional information relating to a distance between a reproducing device that reproduces the acoustic signal and a listener who listens to sound reproduced by the reproducing device; and

correct a gain of the acoustic signal on a basis of the sound-source positional information and the listening positional information;

wherein in a case where the distance shown by the sound-source positional information is a distance r 1 and the distance shown by the listening positional information is a distance r 2 , the processor multiplies the acoustic signal by (r 1 −r 2 )/(r 1 +r 2 ).

2. The signal processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

correct the gain of the acoustic signal, thereby restoring a relationship of a difference of sound pressure between a plurality of sound sources.

3. The signal processing device according to claim 1 , wherein

the distance shown by the listening positional information has a fixed value.

4. The signal processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

obtain the acoustic signal via a network, and

obtain the sound-source positional information via a network.

5. The signal processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

obtain the listening positional information via a network.

6. The signal processing device according to claim 1 , wherein

in a case where there is a plurality of listeners, the listening positional information is an average value of distances between of the respective listeners and the reproducing device, a distance to a listener existing at the closest position to the reproducing device among the plurality of the listeners, or a fixed value.

7. A signal processing method comprising steps of:

obtaining an acoustic signal;

obtaining sound-source positional information relating to a distance between a sound source and a sound collecting unit that collects sound from the sound source;

obtaining listening positional information relating to a distance between a reproducing device that reproduces the acoustic signal and a listener who listens to sound reproduced by the reproducing device; and

correcting gain of the acoustic signal on a basis of the sound-source positional information and the listening positional information;

wherein in a case where the distance shown by the sound-source positional information is a distance r 1 and the distance shown by the listening positional information is a distance r 2 , the correcting multiplies the acoustic signal by (r 1 −r 2 )/(r 1 +r 2 ).

8. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a computer to execute processing comprising steps of:

obtaining an acoustic signal;

obtaining sound-source positional information relating to a distance between a sound source and a sound collecting unit that collects sound from the sound source;

obtaining listening positional information relating to a distance between a reproducing device that reproduces the acoustic signal and a listener who listens to sound reproduced by the reproducing device; and

correcting gain of the acoustic signal on a basis of the sound-source positional information and the listening positional information;

wherein in a case where the distance shown by the sound-source positional information is a distance r 1 and the distance shown by the listening positional information is a distance r 2 , the correcting multiplies the acoustic signal by (r 1 −r 2 )/(r 1 +r 2 ).

9. A signal processing device comprising:

memory storing instructions:

a processor configured to implement the instructions to cause the signal processing device to:

collect sound from a sound source;

measure a distance between the sound source and the sound collecting unit;

obtain listening positional information relating to a distance between a reproducing device that reproduces an acoustic signal of the sound collected by the sound collecting unit and a listener who listens to sound reproduced by the reproducing device; and

correct a gain of the acoustic signal on a basis of the measured distance and the distance shown by the listening positional information;

wherein in a case where the distance shown by the sound-source positional information is a distance r 1 and the distance shown by the listening positional information is a distance r 2 , the processor multiplies the acoustic signal by (r 1 −r 2 )/(r 1 +r 2 ).

10. The signal processing device according to claim 9 , wherein

the corrected acoustic signal corrected is supplied to the reproducing device.

11. The signal processing device according to claim 9 , wherein

the sound collecting unit includes a microphone array, and

the processor calculates mutual correlation of sound collected by the microphone array, and measures a distance to the sound source by using a distance between microphones that collect sound with high correlation.

12. The signal processing device according to claim 9 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

analyze an image obtained by capturing an image of the sound source and measure a distance to the sound source.

13. The signal processing device according to claim 9 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

measure a distance between the sound source and the sound collecting unit by using a GPS.

14. The signal processing device according to claim 9 , wherein

the sound collecting unit includes a microphone that collects sound in proximity of the sound source, and

the processor sets a predetermined position as a reference, and measures a distance between the predetermined position and the microphone.

15. A signal processing method comprising steps of:

collecting sound form a sound source;

measuring a distance between the sound source and a sound collecting unit that collects the sound;

obtaining listening positional information relating to a distance between a reproducing device that reproduces an acoustic signal of the collected sound and a listener who listens to sound reproduced by the reproducing device; and

correcting gain of the acoustic signal on a basis of the measured distance and the distance shown by the listening positional information;

wherein in a case where the distance shown by the sound-source positional information is a distance r 1 and the distance shown by the listening positional information is a distance r 2 , the correcting multiplies the acoustic signal by (r 1 −r 2 )/(r 1 +r 2 ).

16. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a computer to execute processing comprising steps of:

collecting sound from a sound source;

measuring a distance between the sound source and a sound collecting unit that collects the sound;

obtaining listening positional information relating to a distance between a reproducing device that reproduces an acoustic signal of the collected sound and a listener who listens to sound reproduced by the reproducing device; and

correcting gain of the acoustic signal on a basis of the measured distance and the distance shown by the listening positional information;

wherein in a case where the distance shown by the sound-source positional information is a distance r 1 and the distance shown by the listening positional information is a distance r 2 , the correcting multiplies the acoustic signal by (r 1 −r 2 )/(r 1 +r 2 ).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 8, 2018
From: TAKAHASHI, MASAFUMI; IZUMIHARA, ATSUSHI
To: SONY CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-209551 · Oct 26, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
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