Audio signal processing system

• US 8,352,053 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2008
• Issued: 01/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Terada, Kotaro
• Primary Examiner(s): ELBIN, JESSE A
• Application Number:
  US12/014,999
• Publication Number:
  US 20080175398A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,819 Days
• Field of Search: 700/94, 700/83, 715/727, 715/275, 715/716, 715/762, 715/765, 715/768, 715/771, 715/864, 715/965, 715/967
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/005 for combining the signals of two or more microphones specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/407
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 7/40 Visual indication of stereophonic sound image

Abstract

An audio signal-processing system has signal-processing units connectable to a transmission line. Each signal-processing unit has channels for applying a signal process to input audio signals. A control unit is connectable to the transmission line for operating a target channel belonging to one of the signal-processing units. The control unit has color pallets different from each other and previously selected in correspondence to the signal-processing units. When the control unit detects an instruction to display an operation screen of the target channel, the control unit renders the operation screen of the target channel using the color pallet corresponding to the signal-processing unit to which the target channel belongs, so that a background color of the operation screen of the target channel displayed on a display part of the control unit is different from a background color of an operation screen of another channel belonging to another signal-processing unit.

Claims

1. An audio signal processing system comprising:

a transmission line that transmits a control signal and an audio signal;

a plurality of signal processing units connectable to the transmission line, each signal processing unit having a plurality of channels for applying a signal process to audio signals inputted thereto and outputting the audio signals to the transmission line after the signal process is applied; and

a control unit connectable to the transmission line for operating a target channel belonging to one of the signal processing units by transmitting a control signal to the one signal processing unit through the transmission line,

wherein the control unit has a display part and a plurality of color pallets that are different from each other and previously set in correspondence to the plurality of the signal processing units for use with the display part,

wherein the control unit is configured to;

detect an instruction to display an operation screen of the target channel;

select, in response to the detected instruction, the color pallet corresponding to the signal processing unit to which the target channel belongs; and

perform a process of rendering the operation screen of the target channel on the display part using the selected color pallet, so that a background color of the operation screen of the target channel displayed on the display part of the control unit is different from a background color of an operation screen of another channel belonging to another signal processing unit.

2. The audio signal processing system according to claim 1, wherein the operation screen contains an image of a knob or button for operating the target channel over the background color of the operation screen, and a color of the image of the knob or button is set invariable although the background color of the operation screen is changed according to the selected color pallet.

3. The audio signal processing system according to claim 1, wherein the operation screen contains a common area over the background color of the operating screen, and a color of the common area is set common among the plurality of the signal processing units although the different color pallets are selected to the different signal processing units.

4. The audio signal processing system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of the signal processing units include an external signal processing unit arranged separately from the control unit, and an internal signal processing unit integrated into the control unit.

5. An audio signal processing system comprising:

a transmission line that transmits a control signal and an audio signal;

a plurality of signal processing units that are connectable to the transmission line, each signal processing unit having a plurality of channels for applying a signal process to audio signals inputted thereto and outputting the audio signals to the transmission line after the signal process is applied; and

a control unit that is connectable to the transmission line for operating one or more channels belonging to one or more signal processing units by transmitting thereto control signals through the transmission line,

wherein the control unit has a display part and a plurality of color pallets that are different from each other and that are previously set in correspondence to the plurality of the signal processing units for use with the display part,

wherein the control unit is configured to;

detect an instruction to display an operation screen on the display part for operating target channels belonging to different signal processing units;

select, in response to the detected instruction, the color pallet corresponding to the signal processing unit to which the target channel belongs; and

perform a process of rendering the target channels in the operation screen using different selected color pallets, so that background colors of target channels belonging to different signal processing units are different when all of the target channels are displayed on the display part of the control unit.

6. The audio signal processing system according to claim 5, wherein the operation screen contains an image of a knob or button for each of the target channels, and a color of the image of the knob or button of all the target channels is invariable although the background color of the target channels is different.

7. The audio signal processing system according to claim 5, wherein the operation screen contains a common area in each of the target channels, and a color of the common area is set common among the target channels although different color pallets are selected to the different signal processing units.

8. The audio signal processing system according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of the signal processing units include an external signal processing unit arranged separately from the control unit, and an internal signal processing unit integrated into the control unit.