US 11,854,555 B2
Audio signal processing apparatus, method of controlling audio signal processing apparatus, and program
Hajime Horikoshi, Tokyo (JP); Yuki Karatsu, Tokyo (JP); Shunsuke Saito, Tokyo (JP); Kaoru Yamanoue, Tokyo (JP); Yoshimichi Kitaya, Tokyo (JP); Erik Beran, Belmont, CA (US); Victoria Dorn, San Mateo, CA (US); and Brandon Sangston, San Mateo, CA (US)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/502,356.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/109,933, filed on Nov. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0139405 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. G10L 19/008 (2013.01); G10L 19/032 (2013.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC G10L 19/008 (2013.01) [G10L 19/032 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An audio signal processing apparatus that generates an audio signal by using predetermined parameter information regarding acoustic transfer in a head of a user, the audio signal processing apparatus comprising:
a retention section that retains a plurality of pieces of audio setting information including, respectively, one of a plurality of pieces of the predetermined parameter information that differ from each other;
an audio output section that outputs audio signals that are generated with use of the predetermined parameter information included in a selected one of the pieces of the retained audio setting information;
an instruction reception section that lists the pieces of the audio setting information to prompt the user to select an audio setting at which the user feels that a sound is positioned at a same height as the user's ears, and receives, from the user, an instruction that specifies one of the pieces of the audio setting information; and
a setting storage section that stores, in association with information for identifying the user, the audio setting information specified by the instruction received by the instruction reception section,
wherein the predetermined parameter information included in the audio setting information stored in association with the information for identifying the user is subjected to a process of generating audio signals to be outputted to the user.