Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining an audio signal generated by collecting sound emitted from a sound source using a sound collection device; executing, on the audio signal, acoustic processing that repeatedly changes a relative position between the sound collection device and the sound source in a time domain; and outputting an output audio signal on which the acoustic processing has been executed.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing method includes: obtaining first position information indicating a position of an object that is a moving object in a virtual space, and second position information indicating a position of a listener in the virtual space; calculating a moving speed of the object based on the first position information obtained; calculating a distance between the object and the listener based on the first position information obtained and the second position information obtained; generating, based on the moving speed calculated and the distance calculated, an aerodynamic sound signal indicating an aerodynamic sound generated when wind caused by movement of the object reaches an ear of the listener; and outputting the aerodynamic sound signal generated.

Abstract: An information generation method includes: obtaining a second wind direction of a second wind blowing in a virtual space and a second assumed wind speed which is a speed of the second wind; generating fifth object audio information in which the obtained second wind direction and second assumed wind speed are associated; storing aerodynamic sound core information including a representative wind speed and aerodynamic sound data indicating aerodynamic sound generated by wind blowing at the representative wind speed reaching an ear of a listener in the virtual space; and outputting the generated fifth object audio information and the stored aerodynamic sound core information.

Abstract: When a foaming promotion component is applied to a recording medium including a foaming layer containing foamable particles to foam, a forming height of an edge of a forming region may decrease. An image processing apparatus detects an edge pixel located inside the forming region at a border of the foaming region with a non-foaming region and increases an amount of application of the foaming promotion component, thereby being able to prevent a decrease in the forming height.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing method includes: obtaining: object information including first position information indicating a position of an object in a virtual space, first sound data indicating a first sound caused by the object, and first identification information indicating a processing method for the first sound data; and second position information indicating a position of a listener; calculating a distance between the object and the listener based on the first position information included in the object information obtained and the second position information obtained; determining, based on the first identification information included in the object information obtained, to process the first sound data using a first processing method for processing a loudness according to the distance calculated or a second processing method for processing the same in a different manner; processing the first sound data using the processing method determined; and outputting the first sound data processed.

Abstract: An information generation method includes: obtaining first sound data and first position information, the first sound data indicating a first sound, the first position information indicating a position of an object in the virtual space; and generating, from the obtained first sound data and first position information, first object audio information including (i) information related to the object that reproduces the first sound generated at a position of a listener due to the object, and (ii) the first position information.

Abstract: An information generation method including: obtaining a generation position of a first wind blowing in a virtual space, a first wind direction of the first wind, and a first assumed wind speed which is a speed of the first wind; generating fourth object audio information in which the obtained generation position, first wind direction, and first assumed wind speed are associated; storing aerodynamic sound core information including a representative wind speed and aerodynamic sound data indicating aerodynamic sound generated by wind blowing at the representative wind speed reaching an ear of a listener in the virtual space; and outputting the generated fourth object audio information and the stored aerodynamic sound core information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display panel and a polarizing plate. The display panel comprises a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a light-shielding layer arranged in the display area and the non-display area. The polarizing plate is provided on a surface of the display panel, and including an end portion located in the non-display area. In this display device, the light-shielding layer opposite to the end portion of the polarizing plate is at least partially removed.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a substrate, a first region in which a plurality of pixels are provided on the substrate and that has a first side, a second side, a third side, a fourth side, and a plurality of curved line parts, and a second region positioned between an end part of the substrate and the first region.

Abstract: An acoustic reproduction method includes: acquiring a first audio signal corresponding to an ambient sound that arrives at a listener from a first range in a sound reproduction space and a second audio signal corresponding to a target sound that arrives at the listener from a point in the sound reproduction space; acquiring direction information about the listener; performing, when a back range of the listener is determined to include the first range and the point based on the direction information, correction processing such that the first range does not overlap the point when the sound reproduction space is viewed in a predetermined direction; and mixing at least one of the first audio signal or the second audio signal and outputting the at least one thereof to an output channel.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first pixels overlapping with a display area and second pixels overlapping with a surrounding area, color filters corresponding to each of the first pixels, and a first light-shielding layer including an aperture overlapping with each of the first and second pixels. The second substrate includes a second light-shielding layer surrounding the display area. The width of the first light-shielding layer arranged at a position overlapping with an end portion of the display area is greater than a width between apertures overlapping with each of first pixels adjacent to each other.

Abstract: Disclosed is a Bst DNA polymerase comprising: (1) an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, or (2) an amino acid sequence comprising a consensus sequence Asn-X-(Ser/Thr) (X is any amino acid residue other than a proline residue), and comprising an amino acid sequence having 80% or more identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, and having 5? to 3? DNA polymerase activity and strand displacement activity, wherein the consensus sequence comprises an N-linked sugar chain, and the N-linked sugar chain comprises three or more mannose residues.

Abstract: A sound generation device includes a direction obtainer and a panner. The direction obtainer obtains a sound-source direction of a sound source. The panner expresses the sound source, by applying a time shift and gain adjustment to the sound source to perform panning for distributing a signal of the sound source to a plurality of representative directions, based on the sound-source direction obtained by the direction obtainer.

Abstract: A three-dimensional audio processing method for use in reproducing three-dimensional audio using an augmented reality (AR) device includes: obtaining change information indicating change occurring in a space in which the AR device is located when content that includes a sound is being output in the AR device; selecting, based on the change information, one or more audio processes among a plurality of audio processes for rendering sound information indicating the sound; executing only the one or more audio processes selected among the plurality of audio processes; and rendering the sound information based on a first processing result of each of the one or more audio processes executed.

Abstract: An information processing method includes: obtaining a position of a user within the three-dimensional sound field; determining a virtual boundary that includes two or more lattice points surrounding the user, based on the position of the user which has been obtained, the two or more lattice points being among a plurality of lattice points set at predetermined intervals within the three-dimensional sound reading field; the propagation characteristics of the sound from the sound source to the two or more lattice points included in the virtual boundary determined; calculating transfer functions of the sound from the two or more lattice points included in the virtual boundary determined to the position of the user; and generating the output sound signal by processing the sound information using the propagation characteristics read and the transfer functions calculated.

Abstract: An acoustic processing method includes: obtaining (i) sound information related to a sound including a predetermined sound and (ii) metadata including information related to a space in which the predetermined sound is reproduced; performing, based on the sound information and the metadata, acoustic processing of generating a sound signal expressing a sound including an early reflection that reaches a user after a direct sound that reaches the user directly from a sound source object; and outputting an output sound signal including the sound signal. The acoustic processing includes: determining parameters for generating the early reflection, the parameters including a position, in the space, of a virtual sound source object that generates the early reflection; and generating the early reflection based on the parameters determined. The parameters include at least a parameter that varies over time according to a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A sound signal processing method includes: obtaining a sound signal; determining, for each of a plurality of sound processes executed in a pipeline, whether to execute the sound process on the sound signal, based on priority information indicating a priority associated with the sound signal; and executing each sound process determined to be executed in the determining, on the sound signal.

Abstract: In an acoustic processing method, (i) sound information related to a sound including a predetermined sound and (ii) metadata including information related to a space in which the predetermined sound is reproduced are obtained; based on the sound information and the metadata, sound image localization enhancement processing of generating a first sound signal expressing a sound including a sound image localization enhancement reflected sound for localization as a sound arriving from a predetermined direction is performed; based on the sound information and the metadata, acoustic processing of generating a second sound signal expressing a sound including a sound other than a direct sound that reaches a user directly from a sound source object is performed; and an output sound signal obtained by compositing the first sound signal and the second sound signal is output.

Abstract: An acoustic reproduction method includes: obtaining a sound signal indicating a sound that reaches a listener in a sound reproduction space and processing information indicating whether to perform, on the sound signal, reduction processing for reducing noise included in the sound; determining processing content of the reduction processing when the processing information obtained indicates that the reduction processing is to be performed; performing the reduction processing, based on the processing content determined; and outputting the sound signal on which the reduction processing has been performed.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing device includes: an obtainer that obtains location information indicating a location of an object in a virtual space, and first shape information indicating a shape of the object and used for generating a video of the object in the virtual space; a detector that detects a moving speed of the object in the virtual space, based on the location information obtained; a generator that generates a first acoustic signal indicating an aerodynamic sound generated by the object, based on the moving speed detected and the first shape information obtained; and an outputter that outputs the first acoustic signal generated.