METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING VOLUME

• US 20110170710A1
• Filed: 10/19/2010
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SON, Beak-kwon
• Application Number:
  US12/907,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20110170710A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/98
• 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

A method of adjusting volume removes an audio signal of a first frequency band from audio signals, and increases the volume of the audio signal from which the signal of the first frequency band is removed.

Claims

1. A method of adjusting volume, the method comprising:

removing a signal of a first frequency band from a first audio signal to output a second audio signal; and

increasing a volume of the second audio signal to output a third audio signal, the second audio signal being the first audio signal not including the first frequency band.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating the first audio signal by recording an input signal,

wherein the generating of the first audio signal comprises adjusting a recording gain so the first audio signal is not saturated.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first frequency band is in a frequency band of the first audio signal, that is not reproducible through a speaker.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a maximum frequency of the first frequency band is equal to or less than 800 Hz.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a selection of the first frequency band, from a user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the increasing of the volume of the second audio signal comprises:

calculating an amount of volume of the first audio signal that is reduced in a time domain, corresponding to the removed signal of the first frequency band; and

increasing the volume of the second audio signal by using the calculated amount of volume.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising, when a voltage value of the third audio signal, is greater than a first voltage value, reducing a volume of the third audio signal to output a fourth audio signal so that a voltage value of the fourth audio signal is reduced to be less than the first voltage value.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the reducing of the volume comprises:

calculating an average voltage value of the third audio signal, in a frame unit; and

reducing the volume of the third audio signal to output the fourth audio signal, so that an average voltage value of the fourth audio signal is less than the first voltage value.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

adjusting a gain of the fourth audio signal; and

outputting the gain-adjusted fourth audio signal.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the first voltage value is smaller than a value of rated output power of a speaker.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising increasing the first voltage value so as not to exceed the rated output power of the speaker.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the increasing of the first voltage value comprises receiving a selection of the first voltage value from a user.

13. A volume adjusting apparatus comprising:

a low frequency signal deduction unit which removes a signal of a first frequency band from a first audio signal to output a second audio signal; and

a volume amplifier which increases volume of the second audio signal to output a third audio signal, the second audio signal not including the first frequency band.

14. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 13, further comprising an audio signal generator which generates the first audio signal by recording an input signal,

wherein the audio signal generator generates the first audio signal by adjusting a recording gain so the first audio signal is not saturated.

15. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 13, wherein the first frequency band is in a frequency band of the first audio signal that is not reproducible through a speaker.

16. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 13, wherein a maximum frequency of the first frequency band is equal to or less than 800 Hz.

17. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 13, further comprising a user interface for receiving a user'"'"'s selection of the first frequency band which is removed from the first audio signal.

18. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 13, wherein the volume amplifier calculates an amount of volume of the first audio signal that is reduced in a time domain corresponding to the removed signal of the first frequency band, and increases the volume of the second audio signal by using the calculated amount of volume.

19. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 18, further comprising a maximum output adjuster which reduces a volume of the third audio signal to output a fourth audio signal, so that a voltage value of the third audio signal is reduced to be equal to or less than a first voltage value, when the voltage value of the third audio signal is greater than the first voltage value.

20. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 19, wherein the maximum output adjuster calculates an average voltage value of the third audio signal in a frame unit and reduces the volume of the third audio signal so that the average voltage value of the fourth audio signal is less than the first voltage value.

21. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 19, further comprising:

an output gain adjuster which adjusts a gain of the fourth audio signal; and

a speaker which outputs the gain-adjusted fourth.

22. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 19, wherein the first voltage value is equal to or less than a value of rated output power of a speaker.

23. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 22, wherein the maximum output adjuster increases the first voltage value so that the first voltage value does not exceed the rated output power of the speaker.

24. The volume adjusting apparatus of claim 23, further comprising a user interface which receives a selection of the first frequency band corresponding to the first voltage value.

25. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing a method of adjusting volume, the method comprising:

removing signal of a first frequency band from a first audio signal to output a second audio signal; and

increasing a volume of the second audio signal, the second audio signal being the first audio signal not including the first frequency band.