Patent ID: 8498860

Claim:
A modulation device comprising: spectrum amplitude adjustment means for receiving an input of an acoustic signal, which includes a sound of a voice or music, and for outputting a spectrum envelope of the acoustic signal; modulation means for receiving a baseband signal that includes encoded transmission data and the spectrum envelope of the acoustic signal from the spectrum amplitude adjustment means, for matching an amplitude of a carrier in an audible sound region with the spectrum envelope of the acoustic signal and for modulating the carrier by the baseband signal to generate a modulated signal; and acoustic signal generation means for replacing a component in a frequency band of the carrier in the acoustic signal with the modulated signal generated by the modulation means, to generate a synthetic acoustic signal that includes the sound of the voice or music and the encoded transmission data, by filtering the frequency band corresponding to the modulated signal in the acoustic signal to output the acoustic signal with the frequency band removed and then superposing the modulated signal onto the acoustic signal in which the frequency band was removed.