Granted Patent B2

US 12,732,147 · App. 18/454,953 · Granted Sep 8, 2026

Inventor: Yuki Kashina (Saitama, JP)

Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

H03G5/025H04R5/04

Abstract

Claims (29)

1 . An acoustic processing device, comprising:

an input reception unit configured to receive an input of a value of a parameter defining a phase difference to be provided between a pair of audio signals, the pair of audio signals being left and right channel audio signals respectively corresponding to a pair of left and right speakers;

a filter coefficient calculation unit configured to calculate a filter coefficient group corresponding to each of the pair of audio signals based on the input value received by the input reception unit; and

a filter processing unit including an all-pass filter configured to provide a phase difference defined by the input value between the pair of audio signals by performing filter processing on each of the pair of audio signals based on the filter coefficient group calculated by the filter coefficient calculation unit;

wherein the parameter includes a center frequency of the phase difference provided between the pair of audio signals, a quality factor, and a phase difference at the center frequency.

2 . An acoustic processing device, comprising:

an input reception unit configured to receive an input of a value of a parameter defining a phase difference to be provided between a pair of audio signals;

a filter coefficient calculation unit configured to calculate a filter coefficient group corresponding to each of the pair of audio signals based on the input value received by the input reception unit; and

a filter processing unit configured to provide a phase difference defined by the input value between the pair of audio signals by performing filter processing on each of the pair of audio signals based on the filter coefficient group calculated by the filter coefficient calculation unit;

wherein the parameter includes a center frequency of the phase difference provided between the pair of audio signals, a quality factor, and a phase difference at the center frequency;

wherein the filter coefficient calculation unit is configured to:

calculate a frequency of a first control target with respect to one of the pair of audio signals based on the input value and calculate a frequency of a second control target with respect to the other of the pair of audio signals based on the input value;

calculate a bandwidth of a filter based on the frequency of the first control target and the frequency of the second control target;

calculate a first filter coefficient group corresponding to the one audio signal based on the frequency and the bandwidth of the first control target; and

calculate a second filter coefficient group corresponding to the other audio signal based on the frequency and the bandwidth of the second control target and the bandwidth.

3 . The acoustic processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the filter coefficient calculation unit is configured to:

provide the input value to a first function and a second function to obtain one of a pair of frequencies located symmetrically around the center frequency on a logarithmic axis as the frequency of the first control target and to obtain the other of the pair of frequencies as the frequency of the second control target, and

a difference value between the first function and the second function has a negative correlation with the parameter of the quality factor and a positive correlation with the parameter of the phase difference at the center frequency.

4 . The acoustic processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the filter coefficient calculation unit is configured to:

calculate a reference term based on the center frequency and a difference absolute value between the frequency of the first control target and the frequency of the second control target; and

obtain the bandwidth by multiplying the calculated reference term by a third function having a negative correlation with the parameter of the phase difference at the center frequency and having a predetermined closed interval as a domain and a value range, and a fourth function having a negative correlation with the parameter of the phase difference at the center frequency and converging from 2 to √2 as the parameter of the phase difference at the center frequency increases.

5 . The acoustic processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the filter processing unit comprises a first all-pass filter and a second all-pass filter;

the first filter coefficient group is a filter coefficient group applied to the first all-pass filter; and

the second filter coefficient group is a filter coefficient group applied to the second all-pass filter.

6 . An acoustic processing method for execution in a computer, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving an input of a value of a parameter defining a phase difference to be provided between a pair of audio signals, the pair of audio signals being left and right channel audio signals respectively corresponding to a pair of left and right speakers;

calculating a filter coefficient group corresponding to each of the pair of audio signals based on the received input value; and

providing the phase difference by an all-pass filter, the phase difference being defined by the input value between the pair of audio signals by performing filter processing on each of the pair of audio signals based on the calculated filter coefficient group;

wherein the parameter includes a center frequency of the phase difference provided between the pair of audio signals, a quality factor, and a phase difference at the center frequency.

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