(19)
(11) EP 1 128 360 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
08.12.2004 Bulletin 2004/50

(43) Date of publication A2:
29.08.2001 Bulletin 2001/35

(21) Application number: 01830129.1

(22) Date of filing: 23.02.2001
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7G10K 15/00, H03G 3/32, H04B 1/66, G10L 19/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 24.02.2000 IT TO000180

(71) Applicant: C.R.F. Società Consortile per Azioni
10043 Orbassano (TO) (IT)

(72) Inventor:
  • Irato, Giorgio, CRF Societa Consortile per Azioni
    10043 Orbassano, Torino (IT)

(74) Representative: Notaro, Giancarlo et al
c/o Buzzi, Notaro & Antonielli d'Oulx Via Maria Vittoria 18
10123 Torino
10123 Torino (IT)

   


(54) Method for optimizing the acoustic quality of an acoustic signal on the basis of psyscho-acoustic parameters


(57) Procedure for the optimisation of the acoustic quality, comprising the steps of arranging media (1) for playing a recorded sound or for synthesising an artificial sound, manipulating (2, 3) the sound thus generated so to confer a predefined value of at least one psycho-acoustic parameter, such as, for example, roughness, loudness, sharpness or impulsiveness, subjecting the sound thus manipulated to the subjective judgement of a plurality of panels of statistically representative experimental individuals, processing the subjective evaluations of the panels, in association to the psycho-acoustic parameters conferred to the sounds which are the object of the evaluation, in such a way to identify optimisation values of the perceived sound quality. In the case of application to the sound perceived inside the passenger compartment of a moving motor vehicle, sound processing media are arranged inside the motor vehicle for conferring optimal values of one or more previously defined psycho-acoustic parameters to the perceived sound.







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