Headphone
AssigneeRoland Corporation
InventorMasato Ueno
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Abstract
A headphone including right and left ear pieces and a connecting portion which connects the right and left ear pieces to each other. The headphone includes a control part which changes a position at which a sound image is localized in accordance with an orientation of a user's head, with respect to at least one of a first musical sound and a second musical sound different from the first musical sound, the first musical sound and the second musical sound being input to the headphone, and a speaker which is included in each of the right and left ear pieces and to which a signal of a mixed sound of the first musical sound and the second musical sound is connected in a case where the position at which at least one sound image is localized is changed by the control part.
Claims19
An audio signal output system comprising:
- a first audio signal path;
- a second audio signal path;
- control electronics that provide a mixed sound from a plurality of sound sources to the first audio signal path and the second audio signal path, and control the mixed sound on the first audio signal path and the second audio signal path in accordance with a position at which a sound image associated with at least one of the sound sources is localized relative to an orientation of a user's head;
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- a plurality of input systems for receiving a corresponding plurality of input signals associated with the plurality of sound sources, wherein each input system is configured to receive a different kind of signal relative to each other input system of the plurality of input systems.
A method of providing an audio output device, the method comprising:
- providing control electronics having a first signal output path and a second signal output path;
- configuring the control electronics to provide a mixed sound from a plurality of sound sources to the first signal output path and to the second signal output path;
- configuring the control electronics to control a position at which a sound image associated with at least one of the sound sources is localized in accordance with an orientation of a user's head;
- control electronics that provide a mixed sound from a plurality of sound sources to the right ear piece and the left ear piece, and control a position at which a sound image associated with at least one of the sound sources is localized in accordance with an orientation of the user's head when the device is worn by the user;
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- providing a plurality of input systems and configuring the plurality of input system to receive a corresponding plurality of input signals associated with the plurality of sound sources, wherein each input system is configured to receive a different kind of signal relative to each other input system of the plurality of input systems.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.