258 results about "Psychoacoustics" patented technology

A multichannel compensating audio system includes first and second compensation channels to psychoacoustically minimize deviations in a target response, to psychoacoustically move the physical position of a speaker and / or to psychoacoustically provide a substantially equal magnitude of sound from a plurality of speakers in a plurality of different listening positions. The first compensation channel may include a series connected delay circuit, a level adjuster circuit and a frequency equalizer circuit that generates a first compensated audio signal from a first audio signal. The second compensation channel may include a series connected delay circuit, a level adjuster circuit and a frequency equalizer circuit that generates a second compensated audio signal from a second audio signal. A first summing circuit is configured to receive at least the first audio signal and the second compensated audio signal and generate a first output signal for provision to a first speaker. A second summing circuit is configured to receive the second audio signal and the first compensated audio signal and generate a second output signal for provision to a second speaker. The first and second output signals may be output by the first and second speakers into a listening space and are acoustically perceived by a listener.

The invention relates to the measurement and control of the perceived sound loudness and / or the perceived spectral balance of an audio signal. An audio signal is modified in response to calculations performed at least in part in the perceptual (psychoacoustic) loudness domain. The invention is useful, for example, in one or more of: loudness-compensating volume control, automatic gain control, dynamic range control (including, for example, limiters, compressors, expanders, etc.), dynamic equalization, and compensating for background noise interference in an audio playback environment. The invention includes not only methods but also corresponding computer programs and apparatus.

A system and method for enhancement and management of streaming audio is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system provides a client-side decoder that is compatible with numerous audio formats, so that a user can enjoy relatively high-quality audio from various sources, even from sources that do not provide multi-channel or high-quality audio data. The system and method also include a management system for managing and controlling the use of licensed signal processing software to further enhance an audio stream. In one embodiment, the management system is used to manage a signal processing module that provides psychoacoustic audio processing to create a wider soundstage, an acoustic correction process to increase the perceived height and clarity of the audio image, and bass enhancement processing to create the perception of low bass from the small speakers or headphones typically used with multi-media systems and portable audio players.

The invention provides an automatic loudspeaker equalization system, particularly relates to an automatic loudspeaker equalization method, and aims to improve sound replaying performance of a loudspeaker system on full bands. The method includes measuring pulse responses at one or more position points in a room by a microphone to acquire a frequency response of each position point and low-frequency lower limit of the loudspeaker system, and acquiring an equilibrium filter by the adaptive optimization algorithm to compensate the loudspeaker system. For low-frequency signals with frequency lower than the lower-limit frequency of the loudspeaker system, ultraharmonics components of fundamental-frequency signals are generated according to the psychoacoustics based fundamental-frequency missing principle and are superposed with delayed original sound signals after being subjected to gain control, and accordingly, the sound replaying performance of the loudspeaker system on full bands is improved.