Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes generating an initial reflected sound control signal according to a geometrical shape of a virtual space, generating a reverberant sound control signal using a reflected sound parameter of the virtual space, calculating timing of connection, the timing of connection being a point in time at which a volume of an initial reflected sound reproducible by the initial reflected sound control signal is a same as a volume of a reverberant sound reproducible by the reverberant sound control signal, based on the geometrical shape of the virtual space, and increasing, in a period of time before the timing of connection, a level of the reverberant sound control signal so as to cause the volume of the reverberant sound to be closer to the volume of the reverberant sound at the timing of connection.

Abstract: An audio signal processing method detects a position, in a sound space, of a sound source that generates an audio signal, the sound space being divisible into a plurality of areas, and generates an initial reflected sound control signal by convolving (i) an impulse response of an initial reflected sound linked to a first area of the sound space, among the plurality of areas of the sound space, corresponding to the detected position of the sound source to (ii) the audio signal of the sound source without convolving (iii) an impulse response of an initial reflected sound linked to any of the plurality of areas of the sound space other than the first area of the sound space corresponding to the detected position of the sound source to (ii) the audio signal of the sound source.

Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes dividing a virtual sound source representing a reflected sound of a target acoustic space into (i) a first virtual sound source located between a position of a speaker and a position of a sound receiving point, the first virtual sound source representing a first sound source of the reflected sound of the target acoustic space, and (ii) a second virtual sound source located such that the speaker is disposed between the second virtual sound source and the sound receiving point, the second virtual sound source representing a second sound source of the reflected sound of the target acoustic space, and, only in a case of the first virtual sound source, moving a position of the first virtual sound source to a reproducible position based on a position of the speaker.

Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes obtaining an audio signal of a sound source, performing first filter processing on the audio signal to generate an imaginary sound source of a virtual space, performing second filter processing on the audio signal to adjust a tone of the imaginary sound source, and outputting an initial reflected sound control signal generated by using the audio signal on which the first filter processing and the second filter processing have been performed, in a first case where the first filter processing is performed before the second filter processing, the first filter processing is performed on the audio signal, and the second filter processing is performed on the audio signal on which the first filter processing has been performed, and in a second case where the second filter processing is performed before the first filter processing, the second filter processing is performed on the audio signal, and the first filter processing is performed on the audio signal on which the seco

Abstract: A sound field support method for an audio reproducing apparatus for simulating sound emitting from a sound source, the method includes selecting either position information on the sound source to be set in a virtual space or localization information of the sound source, in a case where sound from the sound source is to be simulated sound emitted from a speaker to be set in a target space, generating a first sound signal based on the position information in a state where the selecting has selected the position information, generating a second sound signal based on the localization information in a state where the selecting has selected the localization information, and adjusting sound image localization of an input audio signal from the sound source to be output to the speaker using the first sound signal and the second sound signal.

Abstract: A sound signal processing method includes receiving a sound signal, generating an early reflection sound control signal that reproduces an early reflection sound and a reverberant sound control signal that reproduces a reverberant sound from the sound signal, controlling a volume of the sound signal and distributing the sound signal to generate a direct sound control signal, and mixing the direct sound control signal, the early reflection sound control signal that reproduces a direct sound, and the reverberant sound control signal to generate an output signal.

Abstract: The sound signal processing method includes obtaining a sound signal of a sound source, convolving, according to a location of the sound source an impulse response of an early reflection sound with the sound signal to generate an early reflection sound control signal that reproduces an early reflection sound, and convolving an impulse response of a reverberant sound with the sound signal to generate a reverberant sound control signal that reproduces a reverberant sound.

Abstract: A sound signal processing method includes: obtaining a plurality of sound signals respectively collected by a plurality of microphones arranged in a space; adjusting respective levels of the plurality of sound signals in accordance with respective positions of the plurality of microphones; mixing the plurality of sound signals having the adjusted respective levels to thereby obtain a mixed signal; and generating a reflected sound by using the obtained mixed signal.

Abstract: A sound signal processing method includes: obtaining a sound signal; obtaining impulse response data that was measured in a predetermined space before the sound signal is obtained; generating an early reflected sound control signal not including a reverberant sound by convolving impulse response data of an early reflected sound among the obtained impulse response data into the obtained sound signal.

Abstract: A sound signal processing method includes: receiving a line-inputted sound signal; controlling a volume of the line-inputted sound signal; and generating an early reflected sound control signal using the line-inputted sound signal having the controlled volume.

Abstract: There is disclosed a fire-retardant resin composition, which comprises: a thermoplastic resin component (A) comprising (a) a block copolymer mainly made of a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene compound as its constitutional components, and/or a hydrogenated block copolymer of the block copolymer, (b) a nonaromatic-series softener for rubber, (c) an ethylene/?-olefin copolymer, and (d) a polypropylene resin; and (e) an organic peroxide, (f) a (meth)acrylate-series and/or allyl-series crosslinking aid, and a metal hydrate (B), wherein a specific amount of the metal hydrate (B) to be used is a metal hydrate being pretreated with a silane coupling agent, and the fire-retardant resin composition is a mixture of the above formulation that is heated and kneaded at a temperature equal to or higher than the melting temperature of the (A). There is also disclosed a wiring material and other molded parts, in which the resin composition is utilized.

Abstract: An insulated wire, in which a conductor is coated with a crosslinked structure of a composition that comprises 150 to 300 parts by weight of a metal hydrate, 1 to 6 parts by weight of a phenol-series antioxidant, and 12 to 30 parts by weight of a thioether-series antioxidant, to 100 parts by weight of a base resin containing ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer, and the content of vinyl acetate in the base resin is 40 wt % or more.

Abstract: A fire-retardant resin composition, comprising: a thermoplastic resin component (A) of (a) a (hydrogenated) block copolymer mainly made of a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene compound, (b) a nonaromatic-series softener for rubber, (c) an ethylene/&agr;-olefin copolymer, (d1) an ethylene copolymer with either/vinyl acetate (meth)acrylic acid or meth/acrylate, (e) a polypropylene resin, and (f) a modified polyethylene resin; and (g) an organic peroxide, (h) a (meth)acrylate-series and/or allyl-series crosslinking aid, and a metal hydrate (B), wherein a specific amount of the metal hydrate (B) is one pretreated with a silane coupling agents.

Abstract: An insulated wire, in which a conductor is coated with a crosslinked structure of a composition that comprises 150 to 300 parts by weight of a metal hydrate, 1 to 6 parts by weight of a phenol-series antioxidant, and 12 to 30 parts by weight of a thioether-series antioxidant, to 100 parts by weight of a base resin containing ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer, and the content of vinyl acetate in the base resin is 40 wt % or more.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cable having a covering layer on the outside of a multicore stranded wire composed of plural insulated conductors that are intertwined, wherein at least an outermost layer of the covering layer is made of a crosslinked product of a resin composition containing (a) 10 to 60% by weight of a polyamide elastomer made up of a block copolymer whose hard segment is a polyamide, (b) 5 to 60% by weight of a thermoplastic polyurethane resin, (c) 10 to 60% by weight of a thermoplastic polyester elastomer, and (d) 0 to 20% by weight of a thermoplastic styrene elastomer. The airtightness and the watertightness at the interface between the cable and a molded body are kept for extended periods without taking any particular sealing measures. The corrosion of the conductors in the cable and the deterioration of the performance of the connected parts of machinery and tools can be prevented, and the cable has excellent water resistance.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electric wire insulated with a foamed plastic. The method includes steps of introducing a foaming agent into a fluororesin in a molten state to allow the foaming agent to dispersed in the molten resin, and extruding the molten resin having the foaming agent dispersed therein onto a conductor wire to allow foaming. A fluorine-based foaming agent contains as a main component at least one kind of a fluorocarbon having a molecular weight of about 338 to 488 is used as a foaming agent.

Abstract: There is disclosed a fire-retardant resin composition, comprising a polypropylene-series resin (a), a modified polyethylene modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or its derivative (b), a metal hydrate (c), and an ethylene-series copolymer (d), in a specific ratio; and an electric wire with a cover layer formed on the circumference of a conductor, in which the cover layer is composed of a composition prepared by blending (c) a metal hydrate with, in a specific ratio, a resin mixture, containing (a) a polypropylene-series resin, (b) a modified polyethylene, and (d) an ethylene-series copolymer.The fire-retardant resin composition is excellent in tensile strength, heat resistance, extrudability, and moldability. The covered electric wire is excellent in electric-wire properties and good in the end workability.