- Patent Title: Method for utterance direction determination, apparatus for utterance direction determination, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing program
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Application No.: US16367417Application Date: 2019-03-28
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Publication No.: US10531189B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Chikako Matsumoto
- Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
- Applicant Address: JP Kawasaki
- Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
- Current Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kawasaki
- Agency: Fujitsu Patent Center
- Priority: JP2018-091943 20180511
- Main IPC: H04R1/40
- IPC: H04R1/40 ; G01S11/14

Abstract:
A method for determining an utterance direction includes: executing a first calculation process that includes determining an utterance direction region based on a phase difference of each given frequency between a first frequency signal and a second frequency signal inputted to a first and second voice input section respectively, and performing a process of calculating a first phase difference deviation degree indicating the degree by which the phase difference of each given frequency is deviated from the utterance direction region; executing a second calculation process for calculating a second phase difference deviation degree from the first phase difference deviation degree of the plurality of frames; and executing an utterance direction determination process for determining that a user is uttering a voice to the first voice input section and the second voice input section when the second phase difference deviation degree is equal to or smaller than a first threshold value.
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