Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sound source probing apparatus, sound source probing method, and storage medium storing program therefor
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Application No.: US15898896Application Date: 2018-02-19
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Publication No.: US10264350B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Takeo Kanamori , Kohhei Hayashida , Shintaro Yoshikuni
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Applicant Address: US CA Torrance
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Torrance
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2017-216735 20171109
- Main IPC: H04R3/00
- IPC: H04R3/00 ; H04R1/32 ; G10L25/78 ; G10L25/84 ; G01S3/808 ; G01S17/02 ; G01S17/08

Abstract:
A sound source probing apparatus, including storage and processing circuitry, is provided that probes a direction of a sound source. The processing circuitry performs operations including determining a first correlation matrix that is a correlation matrix of acoustic signals acquired as observation signals by a microphone array including two or more microphones disposed apart from each other. The operations also include determining, by learning, weights such that a linear sum of a plurality of second correlation matrices multiplied by the respective weights is equal to the first correlation matrix where the plurality of second correlation matrices are correlation matrices, which are determined for respective directions determined based on an array arrangement of the microphone array and which are stored in advance in the storage. The operations further include determining, using the determined weights, a spatial spectrum of the observation signal indicating sound pressure intensities in the respective directions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180255395A1 SOUND SOURCE PROBING APPARATUS, SOUND SOURCE PROBING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR Public/Granted day:2018-09-06
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