MEASURING APPARATUS, MEASURING METHOD, AND SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20070086596A1
• Filed: 10/05/2006
• Published: 04/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KINO, Yasuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,961,893 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/13 Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 7/301 Automatic calibration of stereophonic sound system, e.g. with test microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 7/305 Electronic adaptation of stereophonic audio signals to reverberation of the listening space H04S7/301 takes precedence

Abstract

A measuring apparatus that measures sound arrival delay time from a speaker to a microphone on the basis of a result obtained by collecting signals output from the speaker by means of the microphone includes: measuring means for measuring the sound arrival delay time that makes a control such that a first sine wave signal having a first frequency and a second sine wave signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency are output from the speaker, is input with the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal collected by the microphone and then mixes the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal so as to generate a third sine wave signal having a frequency corresponding to a difference between the first frequency and the second frequency, and measures the sound arrival delay time on the basis of the third sine wave signal.

Claims

1. A measuring apparatus that measures sound arrival delay time from a speaker to a microphone on the basis of a result obtained by collecting signals output from the speaker by means of the microphone, comprising:

measuring means for measuring the sound arrival delay time that makes a control such that a first sine wave signal having a first frequency and a second sine wave signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency are output from the speaker, is input with the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal collected by the microphone and then mixes the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal so as to generate a third sine wave signal having a frequency corresponding to a difference between the first frequency and the second frequency, and measures the sound arrival delay time on the basis of the third sine wave signal.

2. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the measuring means makes a control such that the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal are simultaneously output from the speaker, and is input with signals collected by the microphone and then performs a filtering process on the collected signals with the first frequency and the second frequency as a pass band, thereby extracting the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal.

3. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of speakers are provided, and

the measuring means makes a control such that the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal are simultaneously output from the plurality of speakers;

is input with signals collected by the microphone and then performs a filtering process on the collected signals with frequencies of the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal, which have been output from each of the plurality of speakers, as a pass band, thereby extracting the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal corresponding to each of the plurality of speakers;

generates a third sine wave signal corresponding to each of the plurality of speakers by mixing the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal extracted in correspondence with each of the plurality of speakers; and

measures the sound arrival delay time corresponding to each of the plurality of speakers on the basis of the third sine wave signal.

4. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the sound arrival delay time is measured a plural number of times instead of a combination of frequencies of the first and second sine wave signals, and final sound arrival delay time is obtained on the basis of the plural number of measurement results.

5. A measuring method of measuring sound arrival delay time from a speaker to a microphone on the basis of a result obtained by collecting signals output from the speaker by means of the microphone, comprising the steps of:

outputting, from the speaker, a first sine wave signal having a first frequency and a second sine wave signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency;

inputting the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal collected by the microphone and then mixing the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal so as to generate a third sine wave signal having a frequency corresponding to a difference between the first frequency and the second frequency; and

measuring the sound arrival delay time on the basis of the third sine wave signal.

6. A sound signal processing apparatus having a measuring function of measuring sound arrival delay time from a speaker to a microphone on the basis of a result obtained by collecting signals output from the speaker by means of the microphone, comprising:

measuring means for measuring the sound arrival delay time that makes a control such that a first sine wave signal having a first frequency and a second sine wave signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency are output from the speaker, is input with the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal collected by the microphone and then mixes the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal so as to generate a third sine wave signal having a frequency corresponding to a difference between the first frequency and the second frequency, and measures the sound arrival delay time on the basis of the third sine wave signal; and

a delay time adjustment unit that adjusts delay time with respect to sound signals, which are to be output from the speaker, on the basis of the sound arrival delay time measured by the measuring means.

7. A measuring apparatus that measures sound arrival delay time from a speaker to a microphone on the basis of a result obtained by collecting signals output from the speaker by means of the microphone, comprising:

a measuring unit configured to measure the sound arrival delay time that makes a control such that a first sine wave signal having a first frequency and a second sine wave signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency are output from the speaker, is input with the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal collected by the microphone and then mixes the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal so as to generate a third sine wave signal having a frequency corresponding to a difference between the first frequency and the second frequency, and measures the sound arrival delay time on the basis of the third sine wave signal.

8. A sound signal processing apparatus having a measuring function of measuring sound arrival delay time from a speaker to a microphone on the basis of a result obtained by collecting signals output from the speaker by means of the microphone, comprising:

a measuring unit configured to measure the sound arrival delay time that makes a control such that a first sine wave signal having a first frequency and a second sine wave signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency are output from the speaker, is input with the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal collected by the microphone and then mixes the first sine wave signal and the second sine wave signal so as to generate a third sine wave signal having a frequency corresponding to a difference between the first frequency and the second frequency, and measures the sound arrival delay time on the basis of the third sine wave signal; and

a delay time adjustment unit that adjusts delay time with respect to sound signals, which are to be output from the speaker, on the basis of the sound arrival delay time measured by the measuring unit.