165results about "Manually operated tone/bandwidth control" patented technology

Audio transducers (headphones, speakers, microphones) inherently do not accurately reproduce the signal presented to them at the input. This can be compensated for by taking into account the transducer characteristics and transforming the input signal using a digital signal processor (DSP) to counteract the inaccuracies. However, for the compensation to take place, the DSP needs to know the characteristics of the transducer. For systems with built-in transducers (like laptops with internal speakers) the characteristics of the internal speakers can be stored on the hard-drive of the laptop and the DSP can read this data and make the appropriate compensations. Because a transducer (headphone, speaker, microphone) has its own characteristics that need to be compensated for separately, a profile is supplied to the DSP either by a database lookup based on an identification made by the user or transducer itself or by profile information stored on the transducer. Once the characteristics of a transducer are known, many additional DSP algorithms can be applied in order to improve the audio performance and even safety of the system.

A method for use with equipment having filters, the method characterized by multiplying a matrix having a specified cut-boost setting of a filter of a graphic equalizer by a correction matrix to create a matrix having a corrected cut-boost setting of the filter of the graphic equalizer; adjusting an actual cut-boost setting of the filter of the graphic equalizer to be substantially equal to the corrected cut-boost setting of the filter of the graphic equalizer; and configuring the filter to have a Q value substantially equal to a linearizing Q value. In addition to the foregoing, other method embodiments are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application. In one or more various embodiments, related systems include but are not limited to circuitry and/or programming for effecting the foregoing-referenced method embodiments; the circuitry and/or programming can be virtually any combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware configured to effect the foregoing-referenced method embodiments depending upon the design choices of the system designer.

The present technique relates to a sound processing apparatus, a method, and a program capable of alleviating degradation of the quality of sound in a case where the gain of a sound signal is amplified.

When equalizer processing for adjusting the gain of each frequency band of an input signal on the basis of a gain setting value is performed, an input signal is attenuated by an input attenuation amount derived from the gain setting value, and the equalizer processing is performed on the input signal attenuated. The amount of amplification of the gain of the input signal in the equalizer processing is estimated on the basis of the gain setting value and a weight coefficient of each frequency band derived from a generally-available music signal prepared in advance, and a difference of the estimation value and the input attenuation amount is calculated as a gain correction amount. Further, nonlinear amplification processing is performed on the input signal so as to actually amplify the input signal, which has been subjected to the equalizer processing, by a gain correction amount, and an output signal is obtained. The present technique can be applied to a sound processing apparatus.

An audio output apparatus has a measuring circuit which measures the levels of at least two sound signals, a sound level adjusting module (a sound level adjusting circuit and a gain control circuit) which adjusts a sound level so as to equal the levels of the sound signals based on the levels measured at the measuring circuit, and an array speaker unit (a delay circuit, a multiplier, an adder, an amplifier and a speaker unit) which emits sounds in accordance with the sound signals outputted from the sound level adjusting module in different directivities respectively.

The present invention provides a long time constant integrator circuit as part of an integrated circuit. The integrator circuit is fully integrated on chip with no external capacitive or resistive components for enhancing the circuit's time constant. It achieves a -3 dB cut-off frequency of 1.6 Hz. The circuit is realisable on a very small area of silicon being formed by a bipolar process using npn transistors, resistive and capacitive elements. The integrator circuit comprises a transconductance stage as an input to an operational amplifier. The circuit design is fully differential and employs realisable resistors and capacitors.

An audio processing apparatus (20) connected between an audio source (10) and an audio output (30) is provided. The audio processing apparatus is suitable for singing practice of users and includes a vocal removing unit (210) and a pitch change unit (220). The vocal removing unit is for removing vocal signals from audio signals of the audio source, and the pitch change unit is for changing pitch of the audio signals and outputting the audio signals to the audio output.

The invention relates to the technical field of audio processing, and particularly relates to a method for adjusting audio equalizing and an audio system for providing equalizing adjustment. The method comprises the steps that a gain adjusting unit receives a current frame audio signal amplified by a power amplifier EQ unit; the gain adjusting unit calculates the energy value of each band of the current frame audio signal according to the current frame audio signal and obtains gain adjusting parameters according to the energy value of each band of the current frame audio signal and the gain parameters corresponding to each band; and the gain adjusting unit transmits the gain adjusting parameters to a host EQ unit so that the host EQ unit is enabled to perform gain processing on the next frame audio signal according to the gain adjusting parameters. According to the method for adjusting audio equalizing and the audio system for providing equalizing adjustment, the problem in the prior art that the auditory requirements of the user cannot be met due to distortion of the audio signal caused by the fact that gain processing is performed on the audio signal through the host EQ unit and then the audio signal is amplified by the power amplifier EQ unit can be solved.

The present invention relates to an audio control device using a multi-screen. The audio control device has a touch screen on which a bass axis and a treble axis for the sound of audio equipment are displayed in a multidimensional fashion, and on which a point selected by a user for audio control is inputted. An audio control section collectively calculates a bass value and a treble value corresponding to the point selected for audio control. A control section controls a speaker based on a result calculated by the audio control section.

Apparatuses, methods and systems are provided for controlling volume of a media system. A remote control is configured to control volume of a media unit and an external device simultaneously or consecutively.

The present invention is related to a method for adjusting the frequency characteristic of a digital audio processor having adjustable parameters including at least low frequency gain, high frequency gain and volume gain. The invention is also related to an audio device executing the inventive method every time the characteristic frequency response curve is adjusted. Today's audio devices frequently offer the feature that the user can select among a group of different sound characteristics. Typically the user may want to adapt the sound characteristic of the device to the kind of music he is listening, e.g. rock, jazz, or classic music. In technical terms the sound characteristic is widely determined by the characteristic frequency response curve of the audio signal processing. Those characteristic curves are essentially defined by a gain value in the low, middle and high frequency range. Normally, a 3-band audio processor, which allows adjusting these three parameters independently is used for this purpose. However, 3-band audio processors are relatively more expensive than 2-band audio processors, which allows only adjusting the gain value at the low frequency range and high frequency range. The invention suggests a method how to adjust the volume gain, the low and high frequency gain of a 2-band audio processor to achieve the same features a 3-band audio processor offers.