SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION DEVICE, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION METHOD, SOUND DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, SOUND DATA DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly entertaining sound amusement.;SOLUTION: A sound data distribution server distributes sound data and sound source location information to a terminal. Here, the sound data is the information representing a sound which is output from a virtual sound source specified in three-dimensional coordinates, and the sound source information is the information indicating the location where the sound is generated. Receiving the sound data and the sound source location information, an audio signal generation unit 160 in the terminal generates audio signals with the localized sound image from the sound output from the sound source in accordance with the sound source location information, terminal location information which indicates the location of a user, direction information indicating the direction of the user's face, and a distance e which is the distance between the user's ears.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO