Methods and apparatus for generating an anti-noise signal and equalizing a reproduced audio signal (e.g., a far-end telephone signal) are described, wherein the generating and the equalizing are both based on information from an acoustic error signal.

Systems, methods, devices, apparatus, and computer program products for audio equalization

There is provided an information processing device including a display section configured to display a first object in a virtual three-dimensional space having a depth direction of a display screen, an operation section configured to acquire an operation for moving the first object in at least the depth direction, and a controller configured to move the first object on the display screen in accordance with the acquired operation, to execute, when a region of the first object overlaps a first overlap determination region, a first process to one or both of the first and second objects, and to execute, when the region of the first object overlaps a second overlap determination region, a second process to one or both of the first and second objects. The first overlap determination region may be a region obtained by extending the second overlap determination region in at least the depth direction.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

An electronic device and a control method thereof includes an infrared module which receives an infrared control signal having a predetermined section-specific waveform from an infrared transmitter, a switching unit which turns on/off the infrared module, and a controller which controls the switching unit to alternately turn on and off the infrared module in a predetermined cycle for recognizing the predetermined section-specific waveform of the infrared control signal. Thus, electric power consumed by an infrared module in a standby mode may be reduced while receiving a signal of an infrared transmitter.

Electronic device and control method thereof

Multiple aspects of systems and methods for voice control and related features and functionality for various embodiments of media playback devices, networked microphone devices, microphone-equipped media playback devices, and speaker-equipped networked microphone devices are disclosed and described herein, including but not limited to designating and managing default networked devices, audio response playback, room-corrected voice detection, content mixing, music service selection, metadata exchange between networked playback systems and networked microphone systems, handling loss of pairing between networked devices, actions based on user identification, and other voice control of networked devices.

Voice control of a media playback system

A method, an apparatus, a system, and instructions stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium to instruct a processing system to carry out the method. The method includes applying corrective filters directly in a portable media device to correct, e.g., equalize for the overall system comprising the portable media device and the playback system to which it is attached. Also a method of determining the corrective filters by playing back one or more calibration signals on the playback system while recording the resulting sound field on the portable media device.

Audio system equalization for portable media playback devices

An apparatus for generating an audio output signal to simulate a recording of a virtual microphone at a configurable virtual position in an environment is provided. The apparatus comprises a sound events position estimator and an information computation module (120). The sound events position estimator (110) is adapted to estimate a sound source position indicating a position of a sound source in the environment, wherein the sound events position estimator (110) is adapted to estimate the sound source position based on a first direction information provided by a first real spatial microphone being located at a first real microphone position in the environment, and based on a second direction information provided by a second real spatial microphone being located at a second real microphone position in the environment. The information computation module (120) is adapted to generate the audio output signal based on a first recorded audio input signal, based on the first real microphone position, based on the virtual position of the virtual microphone, and based on the sound source position.

Sound acquisition via the extraction of geometrical information from direction of arrival estimates

An embodiment of an apparatus (200) for computing control information for a suppression filter (210) for filtering a second audio signal to suppress an echo based on a first audio signal includes a computation means (220) having a value determination means (230) for determining at least one energy-related value for a band-pass signal of at least two temporally successive data blocks of at least one signal of a group of signals. The computation means (220) further includes a mean value determination means (250) for determining at least one mean value of the at least one determined energy-related value for the band-pass signal. The computation means (220) further includes a modification means (260) for modifying the at least one energy-related value for the band-pass signal on the basis of the determined mean value for the band-pass signal. The computation means (220) ' further includes a control information computation means (270) for computing the control information for the suppression filter (210) on the basis of the at least one modified energy-related value.

Apparatus and method for computing control information for an echo suppression filter and apparatus and method for computing a delay value

An apparatus for generating an audio output signal having two or more audio output channels from an audio input signal having two or more audio input channels is provided. The apparatus comprises a provider (110) and a signal processor (120). The provider (110) is adapted to provide first covariance properties of the audio input signal. The signal processor (120) is adapted to generate the audio output signal by applying a mixing rule on at least two of the two or more audio input channels. The signal processor (120) is configured to determine the mixing rule based on the first covariance properties of the audio input signal and based on second covariance properties of the audio output signal, the second covariance properties being different from the first covariance properties.

Optimal mixing matrices and usage of decorrelators in spatial audio processing

An audio format transcoder (100) for transcoding an input audio signal, the input audio signal having at least two directional audio components. The audio format transcoder (100) comprising a converter (110) for converting the input audio signal into a converted signal, the converted signal having a converted signal representation and a converted signal direction of arrival. The audio format transcoder (100) further comprises a position provider (120) for providing at least two spatial positions of at least two spatial audio sources and a processor (130) for processing the converted signal representation based on the at least two spatial positions to obtain at least two separated audio source measures.

Audio format transcoder

An embodiment of an apparatus (200) for computing filter coefficients for an adaptive filter (210) for filtering a microphone signal so as to suppress an echo due to a loudspeaker signal includes extraction means (250) for extracting a stationary component signal or a non-stationary component signal from the loudspeaker signal or from a signal derived from the loudspeaker signal, and computing means (270) for computing the filter coefficients for the adaptive filter (210) on the basis of the extracted stationary component signal or the extracted non-stationary component signal.

Fabian Küch

Papers

Sound acquisition via the extraction of geometrical information from direction of arrival estimates

Apparatus and method for computing control information for an echo suppression filter and apparatus and method for computing a delay value

Optimal mixing matrices and usage of decorrelators in spatial audio processing

Audio format transcoder

Apparatus and method for computing filter coefficients for echo suppression