• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.139-145
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• 2013

In this paper, the problems of the conventional amplitude panning method for a stereophonic panning system are analyzed. We observed that the distortion showed a feedforward comb filter response. As a remedy to this distortion, we propose a stereophonic panning system using a feedback comb filter. The comb filter is designed to minimize the difference between interaural level difference(ILD) of the proposed system and that of HRTF because ILD is most salient cue for the perception of the source direction. The proposed system is configured to operate selectively for the frequency band related to the source direction. The performance of the proposed system is verified by subjective listening tests.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.8-11
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• 2013

스테레오-멀티채널 업믹스(Stereo-to-Multichannel Upmix)기술은 시장의 대부분을 차지하는 스테레오 음원을 홈시어터와 같은 멀티채널 스피커 재생 환경에서 효과적으로 재생하기 위한 채널 포맷 변환 기술을 말한다. 수평적인 공간감뿐만 아니라 수직적인 공간감을 재현하기 위하여 10.2, 22.2채널 환경의 경우 고도 채널이 추가되었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 채널 환경에서 수직, 수평적인 공간감을 재현하기 위하여 새로운 초기 반사음을 생성하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 진폭 패닝방법을 이용하여 전방의 가상 음원들에 의하여 발생되는 리시버 위치에서의 음압을 일치시킴으로써 기존 알고리즘이 가지지 못했던 이론적인 배경을 갖는다. 청취 평가 실험을 통하여 제안된 알고리즘은 음장의 수직, 수평적인 폭을 증가시키며, 좀 더 안정적인 음상 정위 성능을 가지는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.64-74
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• 2014

The primary and ambient signal decomposition of a stereo sound is a key step to the stereo upmix. The principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most widely used methods of primary-ambient signal decomposition. However, previous PCA-based decomposition algorithms assume that stereo sound sources are only amplitude-panned without any consideration of phase difference. So it occurs some performance degradation in case of live recorded stereo sound. In this paper, we propose a new PCA-based stereo decomposition algorithm that can consider the phase difference between the channel signals. The proposed algorithm overcomes limitation of conventional signal model using PCA with phase alignment. The phase alignment is realized by using inter-channel phase difference (IPD) which is widely used in parametric stereo coding. Moreover, Enhanced Modified PCA(EMPCA) is combined to solve the problem of conventional PCA caused by Primary to Ambient energy Ratio(PAR) and panning angle dependency. The simulation results are presented to show the improvements of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.810-818
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a stereophonic sound system using multiple smartphones. In the conventional sound systems using smartphones, all devices play the same signal so that it is difficult to provide true stereophonic effect. In order to solve this problem, we propose a novel sound system which can generate a virtual sound source at any location in such a way that smartphones at different locations play different signals with amplitude panning. By using the proposed system, we can generate more realistic stereophonic effect than the conventional system, and can control the sound effect by user's command. We developed the proposed system using commercial smartphones and verified that the developed sound system effectively provides the desired stereophonic effect.