Method and device for synthesizing a sound

• US 10,133,547 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2016
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fleureau, Julien, Lefevre, Yoan, Guillotel, Philippe
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Norman
• Application Number:
  US15/268,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20170075655A1
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 345173, 345179, 345174, 345156, 345 11, 345158, 3404072, 178 1803, 178 1902, 178 1904, 715716, 715762, 715763, 715856, 715 86, 381150
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/02 using printers

Abstract

A method and device for obtaining a sound, wherein an information representative of a speed of a first object moving on a first surface is obtained. The obtained speed information is used with one or more reference sounds to obtain the sound. The one or more reference sounds are associated with a determined speed of displacement of a second object moving on a second surface, the first surface being different from the second surface.

Claims

1. A method of generating a sound, the method comprising:

obtaining an information representative of a first speed of a first object moving on a first surface;

generating said sound according to information representative of at least two reference sounds and according to said information representative of the first speed, said at least two reference sounds corresponding to a sound obtained by moving a second object on a second surface with at least two second speeds, the first surface being different from the second surface, one different second speed being associated with each reference sound of said at least two reference sounds.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said first speed has a first value comprised between second values associated with the at least two second speeds.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein generating said sound uses frequency information and energy information of said at least two reference sounds.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein generating said sound comprises interpolating in frequency and in energy said at least two reference sounds.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein frequency information associated with said sound is generated from frequency information associated with at least one modelled sample of each of the at least two reference sounds generated by an auto-regressive model.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the at least two reference sounds are modelled with said auto-regressive model.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein frequency information associated with a sample of said sound is generated by linear combination of the modelled samples according to a value of said information representative of the second speed corresponding to said sample, and energy information associated with said sample of said sound is generated by linear combination of energy values associated with the at least two reference sounds.

22. A non-transitory processor readable medium having stored therein instructions for causing a processor to perform at least the steps of the method according to claim 1.

8. An apparatus for generating a sound, the apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to:

obtain an information representative of a first speed of a first object moving on a first surface;

generate said sound according to information representative of at least two reference sounds and according to said information representative of the first speed, said at least two reference sounds corresponding to a sound obtained by moving a second object on a second surface with at least two second speeds, the first surface being different from the second surface, one different second speed being associated with each reference sound of said at least two reference sounds.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said first speed has a first value comprised between second values associated with the at least two second speeds.

10. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the at least one processor is configured to use frequency information and energy information of the at least two reference sounds to generate said sound.

11. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to interpolate in frequency and in energy said at least two reference sounds.

12. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the at least one processor is configured to use at least one modelled sample of each of the at least two reference sounds generated by an auto-regressive model to obtain frequency information associated with said sound.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the at least two reference sounds are modelled with said auto-regressive model.

14. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate frequency information associated with a sample of said sound by linear combination of the at least one modelled sample according to a value of said information representative of the second speed corresponding to said sample, and to generate energy information associated with said sample of said sound by linear combination of energy values associated with the at least two reference sounds.

15. An apparatus for generating a sound, the apparatus comprising:

means for obtaining an information representative of a first speed of a first object moving on a first surface;

means for generating said sound according to information representative of at least two reference sounds and according to said information representative of the first speed, said at least two reference sounds corresponding to a sound obtained by moving a second object on a second surface with at least two second speeds, the first surface being different from the second surface, one different second speed being associated with each reference sound of said at least two reference sounds.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said first speed has a first value comprised between second values associated with the at least two second speeds.

17. The apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising means for using frequency information and energy information of the at least two reference sounds to generate said sound.

18. The apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising means for interpolating in frequency and in energy said at least two reference sounds.

19. The apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising means for using at least one modelled sample of each of the at least two reference sounds generated by an auto-regressive model to obtain frequency information associated with said sound.

20. The apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the at least two reference sounds are modelled with said auto-regressive model.

21. The apparatus according to claim 19, further comprising means for generating frequency information associated with a sample of said sound by linear combination of the at least one modelled sample according to a value of said information representative of the second speed corresponding to said sample, and means for generating energy information associated with said sample of said sound by linear combination of energy values associated with the at least two reference sounds.