Abstract: A method and an apparatus to reproduce a 7.1 channel encoded sound through a 5.1 channel speaker system are provided. The apparatus includes a decoder to separate a 7.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reproducing a front surround sound, whereby a coefficient of at least one beamforming filter set is determined based on a sound pressure ratio of an emphasis area to a suppression area for each of the at least one channel signal included in a sound signal, where the emphasis area is an area into which the at least one channel signal is focused and the suppression area is an area within which the at least one channel signal is blocked, the at least one channel signal passes through a corresponding beamforming filter set, and the at least one filtered channel signal is output through an array speaker.

Abstract: Provided are a three-dimensional (3D) sound reproducing method and apparatus. The method includes transmitting sound signals through a head related transfer filter (HRTF) corresponding to a first elevation, generating a plurality of sound signals by replicating the filtered sound signals, amplifying or attenuating each of the replicated sound signals based on a gain value corresponding to each of speakers, through which the replicated sound signals will be output, and outputting the amplified or attenuated sound signals through the corresponding speakers.

Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light emitting display and a method of manufacturing the same. The organic light emitting includes a first substrate, a first electrode, an organic light emitting layer, and a second electrode. The first substrate includes a pixel region showing an image and a peripheral region surrounding the pixel region. The first electrode is formed in the pixel region of the first substrate. The organic light emitting layer is formed on the first electrode. The second electrode is formed on the organic light emitting layer and extends to the peripheral region. An auxiliary electrode is formed on the second electrode to contact the second electrode on an entire surface of the first substrate, thereby applying a voltage having the same voltage level as that of the second electrode.

Abstract: A method of compensating audio frequency response characteristics of a portable sound system can be performed using acoustic characteristics of a user measured in real-time. The method of compensating the audio frequency response characteristics can be used by a portable sound system. The method includes generating an acoustic characteristics curve of a user based on a minimum perception level of a user with respect to audible audio frequency bandwidths, generating an acoustic compensation curve of the user based on the acoustic characteristics curve of the user and a predetermined frequency characteristics target curve, and compensating the audio frequency response characteristics of a sound based on the acoustic compensation curve of the user.

Abstract: Method and apparatus reproduce a stereophonic sound. The method includes obtaining sound depth information which denotes a distance between at least one object within a sound signal and a reference position, and providing sound perspective to the sound object output from a speaker, based on the sound depth information.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for canceling crosstalk between 2-channel speakers and two ears of a listener in a stereo sound generation system. The crosstalk canceling apparatus includes a first signal processing unit to cross-mix first and second channel signals with gain and delay-adjusted first and second channel signals, a second signal processing unit to adjust frequency characteristics of the signals mixed in the first signal processing unit.

Abstract: Provided is a signal processing method which calculates a correlation coefficient indicating the degree of relation in a stereo signal and extracts a speech signal from the stereo signal by using the correlation coefficient and the stereo signal.

Abstract: A wide mono sound reproducing method and apparatus to widen mono sound by using 2 channel speakers. The method include separating an input mono sound signal into a plurality of decorrelated signals, generating virtual sound sources by localizing each of the separated signals at virtual locations asymmetrical about a center of a front side of a listening point by applying different head related transfer functions to the separated signals, and canceling crosstalk of the generated virtual sound sources.

Abstract: A method of reproducing a virtual sound and an apparatus to reproduce a 2-channel virtual sound from a 5.1 channel (or 7.1 channel or more) sound using a two-channel speaker system. The method includes: generating a 2-channel virtual sound from a multi-channel sound, sensing a listener position with respect to two speakers, generating a listener position compensation value by calculating output levels and time delays of the two speakers with respect to the sensed listener position, and compensating output values of the generated 2-channel virtual sound based on the listener position compensation value.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to reproduce sound using a mono speaker, and a stereo sound system employing the same. The sound reproducing method can include: adding a first channel signal and a second channel signal of an input stereo signal or an input mono signal; sound field filtering by adding a sound field effect to the added signals; convolving the signal of the first channel with a first HRTF in a first convolution process; convolving the signal of the second channel with a second HRTF in a second convolution process; and adding the signal output from the sound field filtering and the signals output from the first and second convolution processes to produce an output signal.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method of reproducing a wide stereo sound by widening a stereo sound output by an audio reproducing apparatus using only two closely disposed channel speakers include a widening filtering operation and a direct filtering operation. In the widening filtering operation, virtual sound sources for arbitrary locations are formed from a stereo-channel audio signal using head related transfer functions measured at predetermined locations, and crosstalk is cancelled from the virtual sound sources using filter coefficients in which the head related transfer functions are reflected. In the direct filtering operation, signal characteristics of the stereo-channel audio signal are adjusted based on the crosstalk-cancelled virtual sound sources.

Abstract: Provided is an adaptive remastering apparatus and method for a rear channel, which emphasizes only signals of the rear channel while maintaining signals of other channels of a multi-channel audio signal. According to the adaptive remastering apparatus and method for a rear channel, virtual rear left and right channel audio signals are generated by multiplying a predetermined gain by ambient signals extracted from front left and right channel audio signals and are combined with input rear left and right channel audio signals, thereby increasing powers of signals of the rear channel.

Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light emitting display and a method of manufacturing the same. The organic light emitting includes a first substrate, a first electrode, an organic light emitting layer, and a second electrode. The first substrate includes a pixel region showing an image and a peripheral region surrounding the pixel region. The first electrode is formed in the pixel region of the first substrate. The organic light emitting layer is formed on the first electrode. The second electrode is formed on the organic light emitting layer and extends to the peripheral region. An auxiliary electrode is formed on the second electrode to contact the second electrode on an entire surface of the first substrate, thereby applying a voltage having the same voltage level as that of the second electrode.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to reproduce stereo sound, which generates optimal stereo sound designed for individual auditory properties. The method includes generating a one or more virtual surround filters corresponding to each of a plurality of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) classified according to one or more individual auditory properties, generating stereo sound for the one or more virtual surround filters, and selecting at least one from the one or more virtual surround filters, and reproducing the stereo sound based on a filter value of the selected at least one virtual surround filter.

Abstract: A front surround reproduction system improving the stereo effect of mid and low frequency signals by using a psychoacoustic model, and a method thereof.

Abstract: A binaural decoder for an MPEG surround stream, which decodes an MPEG surround stream into a stereo 3D signal, and a decoding method thereof. The method includes dividing a compressed audio stream and head related transfer function (HRTF) data into subbands, selecting predetermined subbands of the HRTF data divided into subbands and filtering the HRTF data to obtain the selected subbands, decoding the audio stream divided into subbands into a stream of multi-channel audio data with respect to subbands according to spatial additional information, and binaural-synthesizing the HRTF data of the selected subbands with the multi-channel audio data of corresponding subbands.

Abstract: An enhanced audio matrix decoding method and apparatus to generate a multi-channel audio signal from a stereo channel audio signal includes a front channel canceling unit to generate a surround channel audio signal through feed-forward mixing with a gain and delay, from an input stereo channel audio signal, and a level control unit to control an audio level of the surround channel generated in the front channel canceling unit according to the audio level characteristic of the input stereo channel and to generate a final surround channel audio signal according to the controlled audio level.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of reproducing a virtual sound of two channels which adaptively reproduces a 2-channel stereo sound signal reproduced through a recording medium such as DVD, CD, or MP3 player etc., based on a listener's position. The method includes sensing a listener's position and recognizing distance and angle information about the listener's position, determining output gain values and delay values of two speakers based on the distance and angle information about the sensed listener's position and selecting localization filter coefficients in a predetermined table, and updating filter coefficients of a localization filter based on the selected localization filter coefficients and adjusting output levels and time delays of the two speakers from the determined gain values and delay values.

Abstract: A stereo sound generation apparatus and method of reproducing multi-channel sound input signals through two-channel speakers.