Distance rendering method for audio signal and apparatus for outputting audio signal using same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10327090-B2
Application number	US-201715703266-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2017
Priority date	Sep 13, 2016
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

Disclosed are a distance rendering method used for audio signal output and an audio signal output apparatus using the same. The distance rendering method includes receiving a decoded audio signal, checking whether a distance between a user and a sound image is changed, if the distance is changed, calculating a gain parameter gnew and a period parameterτnew, applied to room response modeling, based on the changed distance, so as to maintain a space characteristic, and generating room response modeling for maintaining the space characteristic even when the distance is changed, using the calculated period parameter τnew and gain parameter gnew.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An audio distance rendering method used for audio output, the method comprising:
receiving a decoded audio signal;
checking whether a distance between a user and a sound image is changed; and
when the distance is changed, adjusting a correlation of a late reverberation part of a binaural room impulse response (BRIR) based on the changed distance,
wherein adjusting the correlation of the late reverberation part of the BRIR includes:
extracting the late reverberation part of the BRIR,
calculating a parameter IACC Late corresponding to an interaural cross correlation (IACC) of the extracted late reverberation part,
estimating a parameter IACC Late _ Δd corresponding to an IACC at a changed location with reference to information about a distance variation Δd,
modeling the late reverberation part of the BRIR so as to have a correlation corresponding to the estimated parameter IACC Late _ Δd and replacing an existing late reverberation part with the modeled late reverberation part, and
changing a gain of the BRIR based on the modeled late reverberation part according to the change in the distance.

2. An apparatus comprising:
an audio decoder configured to decode an audio signal; and
an audio renderer operatively connected to the audio decoder and configured to:
check whether a distance between a user and a sound image is changed, and
when the distance is changed, adjust a correlation of a late reverberation part of a binaural room impulse response (BRIR) based on the changed distance,
wherein adjusting the correlation of the late reverberation part of the BRIR includes:
extracting the late reverberation part of the BRIR,
calculating a parameter IACC Late corresponding to an interaural cross correlation (IACC) of the extracted late reverberation part,
estimating a parameter IACC Late _ Δd corresponding to an IACC at a changed location with reference to information about a distance variation Δd,
modeling the late reverberation part of the BRIR so as to have a correlation corresponding to the estimated parameter IACC Late _ Δd and replacing an existing late reverberation part with the modeled late reverberation part, and
changing a gain of the BRIR based on the modeled late reverberation part according to the change in the distance.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Lee Tung Chin
• Suh Jongyeul

Classifications

• H04S7/306 Primary

  For headphones · CPC title

• G01H7/00

  Measuring reverberation time {; room acoustic measurements} · CPC title

• H04S2420/01

  Enhancing the perception of the sound image or of the spatial distribution using head related transfer functions [HRTF's] or equivalents thereof, e.g. interaural time difference [ITD] or interaural level difference [ILD] · CPC title

• H04S7/304

  For headphones · CPC title