Patent ID: 8094827

Claim:
A sound reproducing system comprising: an array speaker having a plurality of speaker units secured in predetermined arrangement positions; and a sound reproducing apparatus that includes a retrieving unit that retrieves a sound signal, and drives each of the speaker units and causes the array speaker to amplify the retrieved sound signal in a sound space, wherein the sound reproducing apparatus comprises: a dividing unit that divides the retrieved sound signal by the same number as the number of speaker unit group formed with a predetermined number of speaker units, so as to obtain unit signals; a signal processing unit that performs signal processing on each of the divided unit signals; and a driving unit that outputs the unit signals subjected to the signal processing to the respective speaker units, so as to drive the array speaker, wherein the sound reproducing apparatus further comprises: a collecting unit that collects input test signals, a reverberant characteristics analyzing unit including an analyzing part that analyzes reverberant characteristics based on the input test signals collected by the collecting unit, and a calculating part that compares the results of the analyzed reverberant characteristics with pre-stored target reverberant characteristics, and calculates a reverberant parameter, and wherein, by generating and adding reverberant components to the divided unit signals based on the reverberant parameter calculated by the calculating part of the reverberant characteristics unit, the signal processing unit performs the signal processing on each of the divided unit signals, so as to generate the reverberant components that have directivities, when the reverberant components are output from the array speaker, controlled.