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Sound processing apparatus, sound processing method and program

US8996367B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

SONY GROUP CORPORATION · JP

Inventors

Ryuichi Namba · Tokyo, JP
Mototsugu Abe · Yokohama, JP
Masayuki Nishiguchi · Tokyo, JP

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 3, 2009
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 5, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04R2499/11
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

There is provided a sound processing apparatus including a sound separation unit that separates an input sound into a plurality of sounds caused by a plurality of sound sources, a sound type estimation unit that estimates sound types of the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit, a mixing ratio calculation unit that calculates a mixing ratio of each sound in accordance with the sound type estimated by the sound type estimation unit, and a sound mixing unit that mixes the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit in the mixing ratio calculated by the mixing ratio calculation unit.

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