Audio reproduction device

• US 10,389,324 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2016
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwata, Kazuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Paul, Disler
• Application Number:
  US16/072,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20190028080A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,068 Days
• Field of Search: 381 55, 381 58- 59, 381103, 381 98- 99
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 5/005 of digital signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/02 Casings; Cabinets ; Supports therefor; Mountings therein H04R1/28 takes precedence ; attachments for microphones H04R1/08; mounting of transducers in earpieces H04R1/1075
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/05 Detection of connection of loudspeakers or headphones to amplifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/00 Monitoring arrangements; Testing arrangements for hearing aids H04R25/30; detection of loudspeaker connection H04R5/04; sound-field adaptation dependent on speaker detection H04S7/308
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/001 for loudspeakers H04R29/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/00 Circuits for transducers , loudspeakers or microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/04 for correcting frequency response
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 5/04 Circuit arrangements, e.g. for selective connection of amplifier inputs/outputs to loudspeakers, for loudspeaker detection, or for adaptation of settings to personal preferences or hearing impairments combinations of amplifiers H03F3/68; stereophonic systems H04S

Abstract

An audio reproduction device includes: a signal amplifier that amplifies an input signal; a characteristic measuring device that obtains a characteristic of the speaker device based on a supply signal obtained by using, as the input signal, a measurement signal having a predetermined frequency characteristic; a structure analyzer that identifies a structure of the speaker device based on a result obtained by the characteristic measuring device; a delay characteristic calculator that calculates a delay characteristic of the speaker device according to the identified structure of the speaker device; a correction parameter generator that generates a correction parameter based on a difference between the delay characteristic calculated by the delay characteristic calculator and a target delay characteristic; and a corrector that corrects the input signal input to the signal amplifier based on the correction parameter generated by the correction parameter generator.

Claims

1. An audio reproduction device that amplifies an input signal which is an audio signal to obtain a supply signal, and outputs the supply signal to a speaker device connected to the audio reproduction device, the audio reproduction device comprising:

a signal amplifier that amplifies an input signal;

a characteristic measuring device that obtains a characteristic of the speaker device based on a supply signal obtained by using, as the input signal, a measurement signal having a predetermined frequency characteristic;

a structure analyzer that identifies a structure of the speaker device based on a result obtained by the characteristic measuring device;

a delay characteristic calculator that calculates a delay characteristic of the speaker device according to the identified structure of the speaker device;

a correction parameter generator that generates a correction parameter based on a difference between the delay characteristic calculated by the delay characteristic calculator and a target delay characteristic; and

a corrector that corrects the input signal input to the signal amplifier based on the correction parameter generated by the correction parameter generator.

2. The audio reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein the characteristic measuring device is connected between the signal amplifier and the speaker device, and obtains the characteristic of the speaker device based on a signal which has a correlation to impedance of the speaker device, by measuring the signal which is an output of the signal amplifier when the measurement signal is supplied to the speaker device through the signal amplifier.

3. The audio reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein

the signal amplifier has a low-pass filter connected to the speaker device, and

the characteristic measuring device is connected between the low-pass filter and the speaker device, and obtains the characteristic of the speaker device by measuring a frequency, amplitude, and a phase of an output of the low-pass filter when the measurement signal is supplied to the speaker device through the signal amplifier.

4. The audio reproduction device according to claim 1, further comprising a storage device that stores a plurality of kinds of the target delay characteristics.

5. The audio reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein the structure analyzer identifies a cabinet structure of the speaker device based on the result obtained by the characteristic measuring device.

6. The audio reproduction device according to claim 5, wherein the structure analyzer identifies the cabinet structure of the speaker device by deriving a peak of the resonance characteristic.