Audio control device and audio control method
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorKentaro Nakai
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Abstract
An audio control device capable of confirming without the use of sight which sound source stereoscopically located in a virtual space has been selected. This audio control device performs processing related to a sound source stereoscopically located in a virtual space, wherein the device has: a pointer position calculation unit (664) for determining the current position of a pointer, the position being selected in virtual space; and an acoustic pointer generation unit (667) for generating an acoustic pointer that shows the current position of the pointer by differences in the acoustic state with the surroundings.
Claims12
An audio control apparatus that performs a process with respect to sound sources disposed three-dimensionally in a virtual space, the audio control apparatus comprising:
- a pointer position computation section that determines a current position of a pointer, the current position being a selected position in the virtual space;
- and
- an acoustic pointer generation section that generates an acoustic pointer, the acoustic pointer indicating the current position of the pointer by means of a difference in acoustic state relative to its surroundings.
An audio control method that performs a process with respect to sound sources disposed three-dimensionally in a virtual space, the audio control method comprising:
- determining a current position of a pointer, the current position being a selected position in the virtual space;
- and
- generating an acoustic pointer, the acoustic pointer indicating the current position of the pointer by means of a difference in acoustic state relative to its surroundings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.