Abstract: An audio processing apparatus includes a preprocessor which extracts a voice-band signal from a first electric signal, and outputs a first output signal containing the voice-band signal; a first controller which generates a first amplification coefficient for multiplying with the first output signal to compress a dynamic range of an intensity of the first output signal, and generates a first modified amplification coefficient by smoothing the first amplification coefficient with a first time constant; and a first multiplier which multiplies the first modified amplification coefficient and the first output signal. The first time constant is a first rise time constant when the intensity increases, and is a first decay time constant when the intensity decreases. The first rise time constant is not less than a temporal resolution of hearing of a hearing-impaired person, and is less than a duration time of sound which induces recruitment in the hearing-impaired person.

Abstract: An audio communication device includes: a sound position determiner that determines sound localization positions for N audio signals in a virtual space having first and second walls; N sound localizers each performing sound localization processing to localize sound in the sound localization position determined by the sound position determiner, and outputting localized sound signals; an adder that sums the N localized sound signals, and outputs a summed localized sound signal. Each sound localizer performs the processing using: a first head-related transfer function (HRTF) assuming that a sound wave emitted from the sound localization position of the sound localizer determined by the sound position determiner directly reaches each ear of a hearer virtually present at the hearer position; and a second HRTF assuming that the sound wave emitted from the sound localization position reaches each ear of the hearer after being reflected by closer one of the first and second walls.

Abstract: An audio communication device includes: a sound position determiner that determines sound localization positions for N audio signals in a virtual space having first and second walls; N sound localizers each performing sound localization processing to localize sound in the sound localization position determined by the sound position determiner, and outputting localized sound signals; an adder that sums the N localized sound signals, and outputs a summed localized sound signal. Each sound localizer performs the processing using: a first head-related transfer function (HRTF) assuming that a sound wave emitted from the sound localization position of the sound localizer determined by the sound position determiner directly reaches each ear of a hearer virtually present at the hearer position; and a second HRTF assuming that the sound wave emitted from the sound localization position reaches each ear of the hearer after being reflected by closer one of the first and second walls.

Abstract: A sound signal processing device includes: a vocal remover which generates a first output signal based on first-channel and second-channel sound signals and a first coefficient indicating a vocal bandwidth to be removed; a surround sound processor which generates a second output signal by adding a surround sound effect to the first output signal; an amplifier which amplifies a signal at an amplification factor that is based on a second coefficient; a synthesizer which synthesizes the second output signal with one of the first-channel and second-channel sound signals, and synthesizes a signal that is the second output signal inverted with another one of the first-channel and second-channel sound signals; and a coefficient determination unit which sets the second coefficient such that the amplification factor, used when the vocal bandwidth to be removed is greater than a first bandwidth, is greater than the amplification factor for the first bandwidth.

Abstract: An acoustic device that reproduces audio signals, the acoustic device including: a first acoustic reproducer that reproduces a signal corresponding to a treble range among the audio signals; a second acoustic reproducer that has a reproduction band from a cutoff frequency on a low frequency side to a cutoff frequency on a high frequency side, and reproduces a signal corresponding to a midrange lower than the treble range among the audio signals; and a harmonic overtone generator that generates a plurality of harmonic overtone signals for a fundamental tone signal corresponding to a specific frequency lower than the cutoff frequency on the low frequency side among the audio signals, wherein at least a part of the plurality of harmonic overtone signals is included in the reproduction band of the second acoustic reproducer.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes one or more filter processors that perform sound localization processing of an input acoustic signal and generate output signals; a coefficient setter that sets, for the filter processors, a plurality of filter coefficients for use in the filter processors; an output data selector that selects, out of the output signals subjected to the sound localization processing by the filter processors, output signals to be output to a left speaker and a right speaker; a time measurer that monitors a time for switching the output signals; and a controller that causes the output data selector to select the output signals in accordance with the time for switching the output signals. The plurality of filter coefficients include filter coefficients generated under a plurality of hearing conditions.

Abstract: An audio communication device includes: a sound position determiner that determines sound localization positions for N audio signals in a virtual space having first and second walls; N sound localizers each performing sound localization processing to localize sound in the sound localization position determined by the sound position determiner, and outputting localized sound signals; an adder that sums the N localized sound signals, and outputs a summed localized sound signal. Each sound localizer performs the processing using: a first head-related transfer function (HRTF) assuming that a sound wave emitted from the sound localization position of the sound localizer determined by the sound position determiner directly reaches each ear of a hearer virtually present at the hearer position; and a second HRTF assuming that the sound wave emitted from the sound localization position reaches each ear of the hearer after being reflected by closer one of the first and second walls.

Abstract: A sound signal processing device includes: a vocal remover which generates a first output signal based on first-channel and second-channel sound signals and a first coefficient indicating a vocal bandwidth to be removed; a surround sound processor which generates a second output signal by adding a surround sound effect to the first output signal; an amplifier which amplifies a signal at an amplification factor that is based on a second coefficient; a synthesizer which synthesizes the second output signal with one of the first-channel and second-channel sound signals, and synthesizes a signal that is the second output signal inverted with another one of the first-channel and second-channel sound signals; and a coefficient determination unit which sets the second coefficient such that the amplification factor, used when the vocal bandwidth to be removed is greater than a first bandwidth, is greater than the amplification factor for the first bandwidth.

Abstract: An audio processing apparatus includes a preprocessor which extracts a voice-band signal from a first electric signal, and outputs a first output signal containing the voice-band signal; a first controller which generates a first amplification coefficient for multiplying with the first output signal to compress a dynamic range of an intensity of the first output signal, and generates a first modified amplification coefficient by smoothing the first amplification coefficient with a first time constant; and a first multiplier which multiplies the first modified amplification coefficient and the first output signal. The first time constant is a first rise time constant when the intensity increases, and is a first decay time constant when the intensity decreases. The first rise time constant is not less than a temporal resolution of hearing of a hearing-impaired person, and is less than a duration time of sound which induces recruitment in the hearing-impaired person.

Abstract: A relay device includes: a case which holds a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal being attachable to and detachable from the case; a first interface to which the mobile terminal held in the case is connected; a second interface with which the external display device is connected; and a controller housed in the case. The controller includes: an obtainer which obtains a video signal and first notification information from the mobile terminal via the first interface; and a superimposer which superimposes second notification information on the video signal based on the first notification information, and outputs the video signal on which the second notification information is superimposed to the external display device via the second interface. The second notification information is obtained by at least one of deletion or replacement of at least a portion of the first notification information.

Abstract: An acoustic device that reproduces audio signals, the acoustic device including: a first acoustic reproducer that reproduces a signal corresponding to a treble range among the audio signals; a second acoustic reproducer that has a reproduction band from a cutoff frequency on a low frequency side to a cutoff frequency on a high frequency side, and reproduces a signal corresponding to a midrange lower than the treble range among the audio signals; and a harmonic overtone generator that generates a plurality of harmonic overtone signals for a fundamental tone signal corresponding to a specific frequency lower than the cutoff frequency on the low frequency side among the audio signals, wherein at least a part of the plurality of harmonic overtone signals is included in the reproduction band of the second acoustic reproducer.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing device includes: a front signal processor which generates first L and R signals by performing signal processing on a first signal which is a front channel signal; a first adder which generates a fourth signal which is a left channel signal by adding the first L signal and a second signal which is a left channel signal; and a second adder which generates a fifth signal which is a right channel signal by adding the first R signal and a third signal which is a right channel signal. The front signal processor generates the first L and R signals by signal processing in which the first signal is distributed and placed at predetermined positions when the first signal is a dialog signal, and distributed and placed at positions different from the predetermined positions when the first signal is not a dialog signal.

Abstract: A sound processing device includes: a distance information obtaining unit which obtains information about a first distance between stereo microphones and information about a second distance between stereo loudspeakers; and a signal processing unit which processes a stereophonic audio signal collected by the stereo microphones according to the first distance and the second distance to adjust a stereo effect provided when the stereophonic audio signal is reproduced from the stereo loudspeakers.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes one or more filter processors that perform sound localization processing of an input acoustic signal and generate output signals; a coefficient setter that sets, for the filter processors, a plurality of filter coefficients for use in the filter processors; an output data selector that selects, out of the output signals subjected to the sound localization processing by the filter processors, output signals to be output to a left speaker and a right speaker; a time measurer that monitors a time for switching the output signals; and a controller that causes the output data selector to select the output signals in accordance with the time for switching the output signals. The plurality of filter coefficients include filter coefficients generated under a plurality of hearing conditions.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing device includes: a front signal processor which generates first L and R signals by performing signal processing on a first signal which is a front channel signal; a first adder which generates a fourth signal which is a left channel signal by adding the first L signal and a second signal which is a left channel signal; and a second adder which generates a fifth signal which is a right channel signal by adding the first R signal and a third signal which is a right channel signal. The front signal processor generates the first L and R signals by signal processing in which the first signal is distributed and placed at predetermined positions when the first signal is a dialog signal, and distributed and placed at positions different from the predetermined positions when the first signal is not a dialog signal.

Abstract: A video/audio reproduction device that adjusts a common parameter associated with a plurality of individual parameters to adjust image quality and sound quality includes: a parameter output unit that accepts an input of the common parameter and outputs a first individual parameter and a second individual parameter that are associated with the common parameter inputted, among the plurality of individual parameters; an image quality adjustment unit that adjusts the image quality in accordance with the first individual parameter outputted; and a sound quality adjustment unit that adjusts the sound quality in accordance with the second individual parameter outputted, wherein the first individual parameter is at least one image quality adjustment parameter that changes in response to changes in the common parameter, and the second individual parameter is at least one sound quality adjustment parameter that changes in response to changes in the common parameter.

Abstract: An acoustic processor includes: an oversampler that oversamples an acoustic signal that is a digital signal including a frequency component less than or equal to Fh, where Fh is a preset frequency, and having a sampling frequency of Fs, into a signal having a sampling frequency greater than or equal to 2Fs; a modulator that modulates an ultrasound signal having a frequency Fc greater than or equal to 2Fh as a carrier wave using the acoustic signal; an acoustic output terminal; and an adder that adds an output signal from the oversampler and an output signal from the modulator and outputs a resultant sum to the acoustic output terminal.

Abstract: An audio signal processor includes: a first amplifier that amplifies a first audio content; a mixer that mixes an output signal of the first amplifier and a second audio content; a second amplifier that amplifies an output signal of the mixer; and a setter that sets an amplification amount of the first amplifier. The setter sets an amplification amount in the first amplifier so that the amplification amount in the first amplifier cancels an amplification amount in the second amplifier.

Abstract: A relay device includes: a case which holds a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal being attachable to and detachable from the case; a first interface to which the mobile terminal held in the case is connected; a second interface with which the external display device is connected; and a controller housed in the case. The controller includes: an obtainer which obtains a video signal and first notification information from the mobile terminal via the first interface; and a superimposer which superimposes second notification information on the video signal based on the first notification information, and outputs the video signal on which the second notification information is superimposed to the external display device via the second interface. The second notification information is obtained by at least one of deletion or replacement of at least a portion of the first notification information.

Abstract: An acoustic device that provides a stereophonic effect to a driver of a mobile object includes: a plurality of speakers (an L channel speaker and an R channel speaker) mounted on a steering wheel that controls a traveling direction of the mobile object; a steering angle detection unit configured to detect a steering angle of the steering wheel; and a signal output unit configured to output a plurality of output signals obtained by performing, on a sound signal, a process relating to the stereophonic effect and depending on the steering angle, respectively to the plurality of speakers.