Patent ID: 7505858

Claim:
A method for analyzing tone quality of exhaust sound comprising: sampling the exhaust sound to be analyzed and converting the exhaust sound into an electric signal, amplifying a high frequency component of the electric signal and performing a frequency analysis of the electric signal at an arbitrary time interval, detecting from a low frequency side of the high frequency component, a frequency indicative of a first formant, and detecting from the low frequency side, a frequency indicative of a second formant, and displaying brightness and sharpness of the exhaust sound on the basis of the first formant and second formant detected at the arbitrary time interval, in a predetermined time range, wherein the brightness and the sharpness of the exhaust sound are indicated by X and Y, respectively, where X=20 log(F 1 /A) and Y=20 log(F 2 /B), A and B are constants, and the first formant and the second formant are indicated by F 1 and F 2 , respectively.