Patents by Inventor Fukushi Kawakami

Fukushi Kawakami has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5642425
    Abstract: A sound field control device includes an acoustic feedback signal path including a chamber and one or more loudspeaker or loudspeakers and one or more microphone or microphones provided in the chamber, the loudspeakers being disposed at a predetermined distance from the microphones, and at least either the loudspeakers or the microphones being provided in the plural, an electrical feedback signal path for feeding back a collected sound signal collected by the microphone or microphones to the loudspeaker or loudspeakers, and a collected sound signal supply control circuit provided in the electrical feedback signal path for changing, with lapse of time, a signal level of each collected sound signal fed back from the microphones to the loudspeakers. The transmission route of the collected sound signal is completely switched or the ratio of distribution of the collected sound signal is changed. Coloration in hearing is thereby reduced and a margin of howling is expanded without causing unnaturalness in hearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Fukushi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 5392381
    Abstract: An acoustic analysis device using a reduced scale model comprises a model of a reduced scale of 1/n, a loudspeaker and a microphone provided in the model, a sound signal forming circuit for forming a signal to be radiated by AD-converting an analog signal to be measured at a predetermined sampling frequency, storing the converted signal in a first RAM, reading out the stored signal at a first sampling clock and DA-converting the read out signal, a collected sound reproducing circuit for reproducing collected sound by AD-converting an output signal from the sound collecting device at a second sampling clock, storing the converted signal in a second RAM and reading out the stored signal at a third sampling clock, a sampling clock control circuit for setting the first sampling clock frequency at a value which is n times as high as the predetermined sampling frequency and setting the second sampling clock frequency at a value which is n times as high as the third sampling clock frequency, and an acoustic analysis
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Furuya, Yasushi Shimizu, Fukushi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 5131051
    Abstract: A system for controlling the second field in auditorium having the feature that stage and audience seating areas are different acoustically, which includes a first assisted acoustics system whereby acoustical energy from the stage area is input, and then controlled acoustic energy is supplied to the audience seating area, and a second assisted acoustics which is provided independently of the first electronic acoustical augmentation system, whereby acoustical energy from the audience seating area is input, and then controlled acoustic energy is supplied to the stage area. Each assisted acoustics system includes acoustic energy input devices and acoustic energy output devices whereby a uniform rate of power decay coefficient can be effected throughout the hall, including spaces under balconies and the like. Significantly improved the degree of acoustic similarity between the stage area and audience seating area is achieved by controlling reverberation characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Kishinaga, Yasushi Shimizu, Fukushi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 5025472
    Abstract: A reverberation imparting device for electro-acoustically enhancing reverberation in acoustic space comprises a microphone disposed in the acoustic space, a loudspeaker disposed in the acoustic space for diffusing the sound picked up by the microphone, and feedback means comprising a signal processing circuit for electrically processing an electric signal corresponding to the sound picked up by the microphone, an output of the signal processing circuit being supplied to the loudspeaker. The microphone, feedback means and loudspeaker form a feedback loop. The signal processing circuit comprises a circuit for subjecting impulse responses of finite length to a convolution operation. Time axis of reflected sounds is extended and extension of reverberation time thereby is realized without depending upon loop gain. Density of reflected sounds is increased by subjecting impulse responses of finite length to a convolution operation whereby separation of reflected sounds is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Shimizu, Fukushi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 4389892
    Abstract: A device for measuring reverberation characteristics in a reverberation room by a digital squaring and integrating computation process. According to the invention, only a part of digital data of a large word length obtained by squaring and integrating a reverberation signal is selected out for computing the reverberation characteristics in accordance with a measuring environment such as integration time and duration of a test pulse. By this arrangement, circuitry for computing the reverberation characteristics can be made compact and time required for computing can be shortened without sacrificing the accuracy of measurement. Further, according to the invention, the level of an input signal can be computed and displayed by computing intermediate squared and integrated data at a certain time interval and adding this data with compensation data corresponding to a frequency band width of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Niimi, Fukushi Kawakami