Patents by Inventor Shuji Miyasaka

Shuji Miyasaka 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).

  • Publication number: 20200068333
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventor: Shuji MIYASAKA
  • Patent number: 10564927
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus outputs a first coefficient stream that has values assigned to signal streams such that a maximum value of 1 or less is assigned to a signal stream closest to the first reference frequency among signal streams of harmonics appearing in frequency signal of sound, and for the other signal streams, the more distant from the first reference frequency the signal stream is, the smaller the value assigned to the signal stream becomes, generates a folding signal stream by multiplying the signal stream of the frequency signal having the bandwidth W on a lower frequency side than the first reference frequency by the first coefficient stream, and folding the signal stream of the frequency signal having a bandwidth W on the lower frequency side than the first reference frequency by using the first reference frequency as a symmetry axis, and outputs a complemented frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Shuji Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 10567697
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a resonant band-pass filter which extracts a frequency component which causes resonance of a housing from an input signal; a harmonic generating unit configured to generate a harmonic signal for an output signal of the resonant band-pass filter; an adding unit configured to add an output signal of the harmonic generating unit and at least a portion of a frequency component of the input signal; and a resonant band-stop filter which removes the frequency component which causes the resonance of the housing from an output signal of the adding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Shuji Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 10560782
    Abstract: A signal processor that performs crosstalk cancellation on an audio signal that is input, in a distorted acoustic space where two speakers are placed, the two speakers including an X-side speaker and a Y-side speaker, where X denotes one of left and right, and Y denotes the other of left and right. The signal processor causes the Y-side speaker to output a sound of the audio signal and causes the X-side speaker to output a sound of a signal obtained by processing the audio signal using transfer function GCY, where a transfer function between the Y-side speaker and the Y-side ear is defined as GYY, a transfer function between the X-side speaker and the Y-side ear is defined as GXY, and a transfer function obtained by dividing the transfer function GYY by the transfer function GXY is defined as GCY.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC
    Inventors: Kazutaka Abe, Shuji Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 10555060
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Shuji Miyasaka, Kazutaka Abe, Katsumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10477326
    Abstract: A signal processing device, comprising a high band attenuation filter which attenuates a signal component in a bandwidth of frequency higher than at least a predetermined frequency in an audio signal that is input, and a hearing aid processor which performs hearing aid processing on a signal output from the high band attenuation filter, wherein the predetermined frequency is determined according to the upper limit of a target bandwidth of frequency for hearing aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Shuji Miyasaka, Kazutaka Abe
  • Publication number: 20190273977
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Shuji MIYASAKA, Kazutaka ABE, Katsumi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190200131
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Shuji MIYASAKA, Kazutaka ABE
  • Patent number: 10334389
    Abstract: An audio reproduction apparatus includes: a signal processing unit that converts an audio signal into N channel signals, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 3; and a speaker array including N speaker elements that respectively output the N channel signals as reproduced sound, wherein the signal processing unit includes: a beam formation unit that performs a beam formation process of resonating the reproduced sound output from the speaker array at a position of one ear of the listener; and a cancellation unit that performs a cancellation process of preventing the reproduced sound output from the speaker array from reaching a position of the other ear of the listener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Shuji Miyasaka, Kazutaka Abe, Anh Tuan Tran, Zong Xian Liu, Yong Hwee Sim
  • Publication number: 20190182447
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a resonant band-pass filter which extracts a frequency component which causes resonance of a housing from an input signal; a harmonic generating unit configured to generate a harmonic signal for an output signal of the resonant band-pass filter; an adding unit configured to add an output signal of the harmonic generating unit and at least a portion of a frequency component of the input signal; and a resonant band-stop filter which removes the frequency component which causes the resonance of the housing from an output signal of the adding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventor: Shuji MIYASAKA
  • Patent number: 10262653
    Abstract: A device including a speech recognition function which recognizes speech from a user, includes: a loudspeaker which outputs speech to a space; a microphone which collects speech in the space; a first speech recognition unit which recognizes the speech collected by the microphone; a command control unit which issues a command for controlling the device, based on the speech recognized by the first speech recognition unit; and a control unit which prohibits the command issuance unit from issuing the command, based on the speech to be output from the loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Shuji Miyasaka, Kazutaka Abe
  • Patent number: 10237510
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a resonant band-pass filter which extracts frequency components which cause resonance of a housing from an input signal; a harmonic generating unit which generates a harmonic signal for an output signal of the resonant band-pass filter; an adding unit which adds an output signal of the harmonic generating unit and at least a portion of frequency components of the input signal; and a resonant band-stop filter which removes the frequency components which cause the resonance of the housing from an output signal of the adding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Socionext Inc.
    Inventor: Shuji Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20190052962
    Abstract: A signal processor that performs crosstalk cancellation on an audio signal that is input, in a distorted acoustic space where two speakers are placed, the two speakers including an X-side speaker and a Y-side speaker, where X denotes one of left and right, and Y denotes the other of left and right. The signal processor causes the Y-side speaker to output a sound of the audio signal and causes the X-side speaker to output a sound of a signal obtained by processing the audio signal using transfer function GCY, where a transfer function between the Y-side speaker and the Y-side ear is defined as GYY, a transfer function between the X-side speaker and the Y-side ear is defined as GXY, and a transfer function obtained by dividing the transfer function GYY by the transfer function GXY is defined as GCY.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kazutaka ABE, Shuji MIYASAKA
  • Publication number: 20180278882
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a resonant band-pass filter which extracts frequency components which cause resonance of a housing from an input signal; a harmonic generating unit which generates a harmonic signal for an output signal of the resonant band-pass filter; an adding unit which adds an output signal of the harmonic generating unit and at least a portion of frequency components of the input signal; and a resonant band-stop filter which removes the frequency components which cause the resonance of the housing from an output signal of the adding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Shuji MIYASAKA
  • Patent number: 10075794
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes phase rotation units which rotate a phase of a signal A and generate two signals having a phase difference of ?, and a control unit which performs transition of ? over time. The control unit controls phases so that ? is approximately 0 degrees at a time point T0 and ? is approximately 180 degrees at a time point T1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Shuji Miyasaka, Kazutaka Abe
  • Patent number: 10002616
    Abstract: An input signal includes a channel-based audio signal and an object-based audio signal, and an audio encoding device includes an audio scene analysis unit configured to determine an audio scene from the input signal and detect audio scene information; a channel-based encoder that encodes the channel-based audio signal output from the audio scene analysis unit; an object-based encoder that encodes the object-based audio signal output from the audio scene analysis unit; and an audio scene encoding unit configured to encode the audio scene information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Shuji Miyasaka, Kazutaka Abe, Zong Xian Liu, Yong Hwee Sim, Anh Tuan Tran
  • Publication number: 20180005627
    Abstract: A device including a speech recognition function which recognizes speech from a user, includes: a loudspeaker which outputs speech to a space; a microphone which collects speech in the space; a first speech recognition unit which recognizes the speech collected by the microphone; a command control unit which issues a command for controlling the device, based on the speech recognized by the first speech recognition unit; and a control unit which prohibits the command issuance unit from issuing the command, based on the speech to be output from the loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Shuji MIYASAKA, Kazutaka ABE
  • Publication number: 20170365262
    Abstract: An input signal includes a channel-based audio signal and an object-based audio signal, and an audio encoding device includes an audio scene analysis unit configured to determine an audio scene from the input signal and detect audio scene information; a channel-based encoder that encodes the channel-based audio signal output from the audio scene analysis unit; an object-based encoder that encodes the object-based audio signal output from the audio scene analysis unit; and an audio scene encoding unit configured to encode the audio scene information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Shuji MIYASAKA, Kazutaka ABE, Zong Xian LIU, Yong Hwee SIM, Anh Tuan TRAN
  • Publication number: 20170339502
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes phase rotation units which rotate a phase of a signal A and generate two signals having a phase difference of ?, and a control unit which performs transition of ? over time. The control unit controls phases so that ? is approximately 0 degrees at a time point T0 and ? is approximately 180 degrees at a time point T1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Shuji MIYASAKA, Kazutaka ABE
  • Patent number: 9792902
    Abstract: A device including a speech recognition function which recognizes speech from a user, includes: a loudspeaker which outputs speech to a space; a microphone which collects speech in the space; a first speech recognition unit which recognizes the speech collected by the microphone; a command control unit which issues a command for controlling the device, based on the speech recognized by the first speech recognition unit; and a control unit which prohibits the command issuance unit from issuing the command, based on the speech to be output from the loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Shuji Miyasaka, Kazutaka Abe