Patent ID: 9200944
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G01H,H04R,H04S

Abstract:
1. A method of determining a subjective property of a binaural sound signal, the method comprising determining left and right sound pressures in the left and right ears, respectively, of a human being, resulting from the binaural sound signal, the binaural sound signal being generated by an arbitrary combination of point sources and distributed sources with an arbitrary direction of incidence, the left sound pressure differing from the right sound pressure, determining, for each of the left and right sound pressures resulting from the binaural sound signal, left and right frequency spectra each comprising a plurality of frequency bandwidth limited left and right sound pressures, calculating, in each frequency band, using the determined frequency bandwidth limited left and right sound pressures, the frequency bandwidth limited diotic sound pressure, which is equal in the left and right ears, that would result from a plane wave frontal incidence on a human being, and that produces the same perceived loudness as the frequency bandwidth limited left and right sound pressures, determining, by modifying the frequency bandwidth limited diotic sound pressure with an inverse frontal head-related transfer function, in each frequency band, the frequency bandwidth limited free-field sound pressure that produces the same perceived loudness as the frequency bandwidth limited diotic sound pressure, and determining the subjective property of the sound signal as the property of the totality of frequency bandwidth limited free field sound pressures.