US 12,108,240 B2
Acoustic processing apparatus, acoustic processing method, and acoustic processing program
Toru Nakagawa, Chiba (JP); and Koyuru Okimoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/438,358
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/008997
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/189263, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-051931 (JP), filed on Mar. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312143 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04S 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04S 7/304 (2013.01) [H04S 7/306 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01); H04S 2420/01 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An acoustic processing apparatus comprising:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire location information regarding a location viewed by a user who listens to an acoustic content;
a storage unit configured to store acoustic information regarding acoustics at the location, wherein the storage unit stores a virtual reality entire spherical video of the location;
a processing unit configured to convert an acoustic characteristic of the acoustic content into an acoustic characteristic in accordance with the location on a basis of the acoustic information, and configured to regenerate a sound field, wherein the processing unit causes the user to visually recognize the virtual reality entire spherical video while regenerating the sound field of the acoustic content; and
a providing unit configured to provide a creator of the acoustic content with the acoustic content, and the virtual reality entire spherical video and the acoustic information of the location in which the sound field of the acoustic content is regenerated,
wherein the acquisition unit acquires the acoustic information that has been changed by the creator, and
the storage unit stores the acoustic content and the virtual reality entire spherical video of the location at which the sound field of the acoustic content is regenerated, the acoustic content and the virtual reality entire spherical video having been provided for the creator, in association with the acoustic information that has been changed by the creator.