Audio processing apparatus and method and program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Honma, Minoru Tsuji
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Abstract
The present technology relates to an audio processing apparatus and method and a program that are configured to adjust audio characteristics more easily. This audio processing apparatus has a display control unit configured, on the basis of object positional information of an audio object, to cause a display unit to display an audio object information image indicative of a position of the audio object and a selection unit configured to select the predetermined audio object from among one or a plurality of the audio objects. The present technology is applicable to video/audio processing apparatuses.
Claims11
An audio processing apparatus comprising:
- a demultiplexer configured to demultiplex an input signal into a video portion, a background portion, and an audio object portion;
- an audio object decoder configured to decode the audio object portion into an audio object positional information of an audio object and an audio signal of the audio object;
- a background decoder configured to decode the background portion into a background sound signal;
- a video decoder configured to decode the video portion into a video signal;
- a display controller configured to cause a display unit to display
- a video image based on the video signal, and
- an audio object information image indicative of a position of the audio object, the audio object information image being displayed in a superimposed manner relative to the video image such that the video image is visible under the audio object information image;
- and
- a selector configured to select the audio object from among a plurality of audio objects.
An audio processing method comprising:
- demultiplexing an input signal into a video portion, a background portion, and an audio object portion;
- decoding the audio object portion into audio object positional information of an audio object and an audio signal of the audio object;
- decoding the background portion into a background sound signal;
- decode the video portion into a video signal;
- causing a display unit to display a video image based on the video signal and an audio object information image indicative of a position of the audio object, the audio object information image being displayed in a superimposed manner relative to the video image such that the video image is visible under the audio object information image;
- and
- selecting the audio object from among a plurality of audio objects.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that when executed causes a computer to perform an audio processing method, wherein the method comprises:
- demultiplexing an input signal into a video portion, a background portion, and an audio object portion;
- decoding the audio object portion into an audio object positional information of an audio object and an audio signal of the audio object;
- decoding the background portion into a background sound signal;
- decode the video portion into a video signal;
- causing a display unit to display a video image based on the video signal and an audio object information image indicative of a position of the audio object, the audio object information image being displayed in a superimposed manner relative to the video image such that the video image is visible under the audio object information image;
- and
- selecting the audio object from among a plurality of audio objects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.