WO1999051062A1 - Formulation of complex room impulse responses from 3-d audio information - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the utilization of sound spatialization in audio signals.
- a method for the creation of acoustic impulse responses for utilization in rendering to an array of speakers comprising the steps of: measuring a room response function; extracting a series of discrete time arrivals from the measured room response function so as to leave a reverberant residual response function; separately rendering the extracted series and the reverberant residual response function to the array of speakers to form a discrete response and a residual response; combining the discrete response and the residual response to form an acoustic impulse response for the array of speakers.
- the measuring step preferably can include measuring the room response function in a B-format.
- the extraction step preferably can include extracting a direction and magnitude of each of the discrete time arrivals .
- Fig. 1 illustrates a simplified B-format impulse response
- Fig. 2 illustrates an example speaker output array
- Fig. 3 illustrates the process of extraction of target arrivals and their rendering as a series of speaker impulse responses
- Fig. 4 illustrates a resulting reverberant residual
- Fig. 5 illustrates the combining of the reverberant residual and speaker arrivals; and Fig. 6 illustrates the steps of the preferred embodiment . Description of preferred and other embodiments
- the input sounds and impulse response functions have a three dimensional characteristics and is in an "ambisonic B-format". It should be noted however that the present invention is not limited thereto and can be readily extended to other formats such as SQ, QS, UMX, CD-4, Dolby MP, Dolby surround AC-3, Dolby Pro- logic, Lucas Film THX etc.
- the ambisonic B-format system is a very high quality sound positioning system which operates by breaking down the directionality of the sound into spherical harmonic components termed W, X, Y and Z. The ambisonic system is then designed to utilise all output speakers to cooperatively recreate the original directional components.
- W, X, Y and Z spherical harmonic components
- the FAQ is also available via anonymous FTP from pacific. cs . unb. ca in a directory /pub/ambisonic.
- the FAQ is also periodically posted to the Usenet newsgroups mega . audio. tech, rec. audio .pro, rec. audio .misc, rec . audio . opinion .
- the preferred embodiment makes use of a convenient measurement method (a soundfield microphone, used to measure B-format impulse responses) as a means for constructing accurate acoustic impulse responses for use in multiple-speaker or binaural playback environments.
- the new technique makes use of the fact that, in the early part of the impulse response of an acoustic space, discrete sound arrivals (individual echoes) can be separately identified and isolated.
- Fig. 1 shows the early part of a typical B-format impulse response 1 having w, x, y, z components.
- the direct sound appears as a large peak 2 in the W (omni) channel and corresponding positive, negative or zero peaks in the X,Y and Z channels eg. 3, 4 indicate the direction of arrival of this direct sound.
- W omni
- peaks in the X,Y and Z channels eg. 3, 4 indicate the direction of arrival of this direct sound.
- echoes in the acoustic space can also be separately isolated 6-9, and their amplitude, time delay, and direction of arrival can be determined.
- peaks eg. 10, 11 may be recognizable.
- the preferred embodiment proceeds by an analysis of the impulse response functions so as to extract the discrete sound arrival information so as to provide for a better B-format rendering of the impulse response function. It is assumed that playback is to occur on a series of speakers and illustrated in Fig. 2 arranged around a listener 15 with the speakers SI - S4 being arranged so as to provide for simple B-format conversion.
- each of the discrete sound arrivals is processed so as to determine a magnitude (W component and direction) .
- This is utilized to determine how to pan the discrete sound arrival between the speakers SI - S4.
- Fig. 3 there is shown the corresponding panning 17, 18 of the initial discrete sound arrival of Fig. 1.
- the earlier frictions are also processed in the same way so as to produce signals 19, 20.
- the arrivals detected in the reverberant tail are separately processed so as to produce corresponding arrivals 21.
- the detected arrivals as shown by way of example in Fig. 1, are then subtracted out of the B-format signals with the result being as illustrated by way of example in Fig. 3 with the subtraction often leading a number of small residuals eg. 30 - 32 in the B-format signal.
- the remaining overall B-formal signal is then utilized as a residual 33 and decoded to the speakers utilizing standard B-format decoding techniques.
- the separately encoded arrivals (Fig. 3) are then combined with the residuals as illustrated 40 in Fig. 5 so as to provide for impulse responses for each speaker.
- the steps include the initial measurement of the B-format impulse responses
- the impulse responses are analysed 52 to identify discrete arrivals and their likely direction and magnitude.
- a database of arrivals is determined 53 and utilized firstly, to subtract the arrivals 54 out of the initially measured impulse response functions so as to form a residual B-format impulse response function which is then linearly decoded 55 utilizing standard techniques.
- the database of arrival 53 is also separately utilized so as to synthesise the detected targets separately on the output speaker array.
- the two outputs are combined 58 so as to produce combined output impulse response functions for each speaker.
- the output impulse response functions can then be convolved with an audio signal (in addition to any convolution with speaker equalization functions) so as to produce an enhanced spatialization of an audio source in multiple dimensions.
- the target format of the impulse response may be a 2-channel binaural format for headphone playback, or a 2-channel cross talk cancelled binaural format for stereo playback.
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