Area reproduction method, computer readable recording medium which records area reproduction program, and area reproduction system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10945067-B2
Application number	US-201816217996-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2018
Priority date	Dec 28, 2017
Publication date	Mar 9, 2021
Grant date	Mar 9, 2021

Abstract

An area reproduction method includes converting a sound pressure distribution at each frequency of a reproduced sound from a sound pressure distribution in a frequency domain into a sound pressure distribution in a spatial frequency domain. The reproduced sound is realized on a control line, including a reproduction line in which sound waves emitted from a speaker array including a plurality of speakers arranged intensify with each other, and a non-reproduction line in which the sound waves weaken with each other. The method includes determining a spatial frequency for use in adjustment of the reproduced sound, in the sound pressure distribution in the spatial frequency domain, based on a positional relationship between the speaker array and the control line, and adjusting a sound pressure of the reproduced sound, which is to be output by each of the plurality of speakers using the determined spatial frequency.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An area reproduction method of outputting reproduced sound from a speaker array including a plurality of speakers arranged to a predetermined area, the area reproduction method comprising:
converting a sound pressure distribution at each frequency of the reproduced sound from a sound pressure distribution in a frequency domain into a sound pressure distribution in a spatial frequency domain, the reproduced sound being realized on a control line including a reproduction line in which sound waves emitted from the speaker array intensify with each other and a non-reproduction line in which the sound waves weaken with each other;
determining a spatial frequency for use in adjustment of the reproduced sound, in the sound pressure distribution in the spatial frequency domain, based on a positional relationship between the speaker array and the control line; and
adjusting a sound pressure of the reproduced sound which is to be output by each of the plurality of speakers using the determined spatial frequency,
wherein in the determination of the spatial frequency, a spatial frequency for use in the adjustment of the reproduced sound is determined based on a first angle formed by a plane wave represented by the spatial frequency and by an array line along the speaker array, and a second angle represented by a straight line linking one point on the array line and one point on the control line and by the array line.

2. The area reproduction method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the spatial frequency kx is represented by Formula (1) below
kx= 2π n /( NΔx )  (1),

wherein N represents a number of the plurality of speakers, n represents an integer and a relation of −N/2≤n≤N/2−1 is satisfied, Δx represents an interval between speakers adjacent to each other among the plurality of speakers, and
the first angle θ is represented by Formula (2) below
θ=180/π a sin( kx /(ω/ c ))  (2),

wherein ω represents an angular frequency and c represents sound velocity.

3. The area reproduction method according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second angle includes a third angle formed by a straight line linking a center of the array line and one end portion of the reproduction line and the array line,
in determination of the spatial frequency, in a case where the first angle θ is smaller than the third angle, the spatial frequency kx corresponding to the first angle θ is determined as a spatial frequency for use in adjustment of the reproduced sound, and
in adjustment of the sound pressure of the reproduced sound, a value of a sound pressure Pkx(θ) of the determined spatial frequency kx is set to be zero.

4. The area reproduction method according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second angle includes a fourth angle formed by a straight line linking the center of the array line and one end portion of the control line and the array line,
in determination of the spatial frequency, in a case where the first angle θ is smaller than the fourth angle, the spatial frequency kx corresponding to the first angle θ is determined as a spatial frequency for use in adjustment of the reproduced sound, and
in adjustment of the sound pressure of the reproduced sound, a value of a sound pressure Pkx(θ) of the determined spatial frequency kx is set to be zero.

5. The area reproduction method according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second angle includes a fifth angle formed by a straight line linking one end portion of the array line and the other end portion of the reproduction line and the array line,
in determination of the spatial frequency, in a case where the first angle θ is smaller than the fifth angle, the spatial frequency kx corresponding to the first angle θ is determined as a spatial frequency for use in adjustment of the reproduced sound, and
in adjustment of the sound pressure of the reproduced sound, a value of a sound pressure Pkx(θ) of the determined spatial frequency kx is set to be zero.

6. The area reproduction method according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second angle includes a sixth angle formed by a straight line linking one end portion of the array line and the other end portion of the control line and the array line,
in determination of the spatial frequency, in a case where the first angle θ is smaller than the sixth angle, the spatial frequency kx corresponding to the first angle θ is determined as a spatial frequency for use in adjustment of the reproduced sound, and
in adjustment of the sound pressure of the reproduced sound, a value of a sound pressure Pkx(θ) of the determined spatial frequency kx is set to be zero.

7. The area reproduction method according to claim 1 ,
wherein in adjustment of the sound pressure of the reproduced sound, the sound pressure distribution in the spatial frequency domain is multiplied by a predetermined window function.

8. The area reproduction method according to claim 7 ,
wherein the window function is a rectangular window.

9. The area reproduction method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control line includes a plurality of reproduction lines, to each of which reproduction lines, a different reproduced sound is output.

10. The area reproduction method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the spatial frequency domain has no non-physical area.

11. A computer readable recording medium that records an area reproduction program for outputting reproduced sound from a speaker array, including a plurality of speakers arranged to a predetermined area, the area reproduction program causing a computer to execute processing of:
converting a sound pressure distribution at each frequency of the reproduced sound from a sound pressure distribution in a frequency domain into a sound pressure distribution in a spatial frequency domain, the reproduced sound being realized on a control line including a reproduction line in which sound waves emitted from the speaker array intensify with each other and a non-reproduction line in which the sound waves weaken with each other;
determining a spatial frequency for use in adjustment of the reproduced sound, in the sound pressure distribution in the spatial frequency domain, based on a positional relationship between the speaker array and the control line; and
adjusting a sound pressure of the reproduced sound which is to be output by each of the plurality of speakers using the determined spatial frequency,
wherein in the determination of the spatial frequency, a spatial frequency for use in the adjustment of the reproduced sound is determined based on a first angle formed by a plane wave represented by the spatial frequency and by an array line along the speaker array, and a second angle represented by a straight line linking one point on the array line and one point on the control line and by the array line.

12. An area reproduction system, comprising:
a reproduction device including a speaker array that includes a plurality of speakers arranged; and
a processor that adjusts a sound pressure of a reproduced sound to be output by each of the plurality of speakers based on a control line, including a reproduction line in which sound waves emitted from the speaker array intensify with each other, and a non-reproduction line in which the sound waves weaken with each other, and causes the reproduction unit to output the reproduced sound,
wherein the processor
converts a sound pressure distribution at each frequency of the reproduced sound to be realized on the control line from a sound pressure distribution in a frequency domain into a sound pressure distribution in a spatial frequency domain,
determines a spatial frequency for use in adjustment of the reproduced sound, in the sound pressure

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Corp America

Inventors

• Sakaguchi Atsushi

Classifications

• H04R3/12 Primary

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• H04R2203/12

  Beamforming aspects for stereophonic sound reproduction with loudspeaker arrays · CPC title

• H04R3/04

  for correcting frequency response · CPC title

• H04R2201/403

  Linear arrays of transducers · CPC title

• H04R2430/25

  Array processing for suppression of unwanted side-lobes in directivity characteristics, e.g. a blocking matrix · CPC title