	US 11,985,489 B2
	Sound processing method, terminal, and sound system
Hiroshi Kotaki, Hamamatsu (JP); Mitsutaka Goto, Yokohama (JP); Mizuyuki Shirai, Hamamatsu (JP); Akihiro Sonogi, Hamamatsu (JP); Takahiro Senda, Hamamatsu (JP); and Hitomi Shimizu, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to YAMAHA CORPORATION, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed by YAMAHA CORPORATION, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/859,296.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-114949 (JP), filed on Jul. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0010955 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 3/12 (2006.01)

CPC H04R 3/12 (2013.01)

20 Claims

1. A sound processing method of operating audio equipment to perform sound processing relating to audio content, the sound processing method comprising:

communicating a distributor terminal with the audio equipment and at least one listener terminal;

distributing, using the distributor terminal, the audio content from the distributor terminal to the at least one listener terminal;

specifying, using the distributor terminal, an operation listener terminal, from among the at least one listener terminal, that is permitted to change a sound processing parameter of the audio equipment;

accepting, using the operation listener terminal, the sound processing parameter changed by the operation listener terminal;

transmitting, using the operation listener terminal, the sound processing parameter changed by the operation listener terminal to the distributor terminal; and

performing, using the audio equipment, the sound processing based on the changed sound processing parameter changed by the operation listener terminal.