Acoustic adjustment device and acoustic adjustment method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016276994-A1
Application number	US-201615169885-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 1, 2016
Priority date	Dec 6, 2013
Publication date	Sep 22, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An adjustment value non-interlocking unit adds an acoustic effect without being interlocked with a volume adjustment value to an audio signal and outputs the audio signal and an adjustment value interlocking unit adds an acoustic effect with an additional amount with being interlocked with the volume adjustment value to the audio signal to which the acoustic effect is added in the adjustment value non-interlocking unit. A difference detecting unit detects a difference between the audio signal that is input to the adjustment value non-interlocking unit and the audio signal that is output from the adjustment value non-interlocking unit and an additional amount correction unit sets the additional amount in the adjustment value interlocking unit according to the difference such that the additional amount of the acoustic effect that is added to the audio signal with being interlocked with the volume adjustment value in the adjustment value interlocking unit becomes equal to the additional amount according to the difference detected in the difference detecting unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An acoustic adjustment device comprising:
an adjustment value non-interlocking unit that adds an acoustic effect to an audio signal without being interlocked with a volume adjustment value; an adjustment value interlocking unit that adds an acoustic effect with an additional amount with being interlocked with the volume adjustment value to the audio signal to which the acoustic effect is added in the adjustment value non-interlocking unit; a difference detecting unit that detects a difference between the audio signal that is input to the adjustment value non-interlocking unit and the audio signal that is output from the adjustment value non-interlocking unit; and an additional amount correction unit that sets the additional amount in the adjustment value interlocking unit according to the difference such that the additional amount of the acoustic effect that is added to the audio signal with being interlocked with the volume adjustment value in the adjustment value interlocking unit becomes equal to the additional amount according to the difference detected in the difference detecting unit.

2 . The acoustic adjustment device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first filter unit that performs a filtering process with a filter characteristic of an audibility correction curve, on the audio signal that is input to the adjustment value non-interlocking unit, and a second filter unit that performs a filtering process with a filter characteristic of an audibility correction curve, on the audio signal that is output from the adjustment value non-interlocking unit, wherein the difference detecting unit detects, based on an audio signal output from the first filter unit and an audio signal output from the second filter unit, an audibility sound volume difference as the difference.

3 . The acoustic adjustment device according to claim 1 , further comprising;
a storing unit that stores therein, for each volume adjustment value and for each setting pattern in the adjustment value non-interlocking unit, a correction amount of the additional amount of the acoustic effect added in the adjustment value interlocking unit to the audio signal, the correction amount being created from an audibility sound volume difference that is obtained by detecting the difference between the audio signal obtained by performing the filtering process with the filter characteristic of the audibility correction curve on the audio signal which is input to the adjustment value non-interlocking unit and the audio signal obtained by performing the filtering process with the filter characteristic of the audibility correction curve on the audio signal which is output from the adjustment value non-interlocking unit, wherein the additional amount correction unit detects, from the storing unit, the correction amount according to the volume adjustment value and for the setting pattern in the adjustment value non-interlocking unit and corrects the additional amount of the acoustic effect that is added to the audio signal with being interlocked with the volume adjustment value in the adjustment value interlocking unit, by the correction amount detected from the storing unit in the additional amount correction unit.

4 . An acoustic adjustment method comprising:
a first adding step, performed in an adjustment value non-interlocking unit, of adding an acoustic effect to an audio signal without being interlocked with a volume adjustment value; a second adding step, performed in an adjustment value interlocking unit, of adding an acoustic effect with an additional amount with being interlocked with the volume adjustment value to the audio signal to which the acoustic effect is added in the first adding step in the adjustment value non-interlocking unit; a detecting step, performed in a difference detecting unit, of detecting a difference between the audio signal that is input to the adjustment value non-interlocking unit and the audio signal that is output from the adjustment value non-interlocking unit; and a correcting step of correcting the additional amount of the acoustic effect that is added to the audio signal with being interlocked with the volume adjustment value in the second adding step to the additional amount according to the difference detected in the detecting step.

Assignees

• Jvc Kenwood Corp

Inventors

• Yagi Mikito
• Takahashi Kenichi

Classifications

• H03G3/3005

  in amplifiers suitable for low-frequencies, e.g. audio amplifiers (H03G3/32, H03G3/34 take precedence) · CPC title

• H03G9/18 Primary

  for tone control and volume expansion or compression · CPC title

• H03G5/025

  Equalizers; Volume or gain control in limited frequency bands · CPC title

• H04R3/04 Primary

  for correcting frequency response · CPC title

• H03G5/16

  Automatic control · CPC title