Patent ID: 9456278
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: H04R

Claim Text:
1. A speaker device comprising: a signal processing section that performs a signal process with respect to audio signals of a plurality of channels; and a speaker array having a plurality of speaker units, including a first speaker units group having first speaker units, among the plurality of speaker units, and a second speaker units group having a second speaker units, among the plurality of speaker units, for outputting sounds according to the audio signals of the plurality of channels, the second speaker units group being different from the first speaker units group, wherein the signal processing section performs a first signal process in which: wherein the number of each of the first and second speaker units is less than a total number of the plurality of speaker units of the speaker array to limit overlap of sound emission areas of the first and second channels, and wherein the signal processing section processes the first signal process so that: