IP Library Granted Patent US 11,915,681
Granted Patent B2
US 11,915,681 · App. 17/579,286 · Granted Feb 27, 2024

Information processing device and control method

Inventors: Akihiro Ito (Tokyo, JP); Satoru Furuta (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
G10K11/34G10L25/84H04R1/406H04R3/00
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Patent No.
US 11,915,681
App. No.
17/579,286
Granted
Feb 27, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information processing device includes a signal acquisition unit that acquires a voice signal of an object person outputted from a mic array and a control unit that acquires at least one of noise level information indicating a noise level of noise and first information as information indicating whether or not an obstructor is speaking while obstructing speech of the object person and changes a beam width as a width of a beam corresponding to an angular range of acquired sound, centering at the beam representing a direction in which voice of the object person is inputted to the mic array, and dead zone formation intensity as a degree of suppressing at least one of the noise and voice of the obstructor inputted to the mic array based on at least one of the noise level information and the first information.

Claims (14)

1. An information processing device comprising:

a signal acquiring circuitry to acquire a voice signal of an object person outputted from a plurality of microphones;

a speech level acquiring circuitry to acquire at least one of a first speech level indicating a degree of speech of the obstructor in a state in which an angle between the direction in which the voice of the object person is inputted to the plurality of microphones and a direction in which the voice of the obstructor is inputted to the plurality of microphones is less than or equal to a first threshold value and a second speech level indicating the degree of the speech of the obstructor in a state in which the angle is greater than the first threshold value from a speech level generation device;

a speech judging circuitry to judge whether the obstructor is speaking while obstructing the speech of the object person or not based on a speech level judgment threshold value as a predetermined threshold value and at least one of the first speech level and the second speech level; and

a controlling circuitry to acquire at least one of noise level information indicating a noise level of noise and first information as information indicating a result of the judgment, and change a beam width as a width of a beam corresponding to an angular range of acquired sound, centering at the beam representing a direction in which voice of the object person is inputted to the plurality of microphones, and dead zone formation intensity as a degree of suppressing at least one of the noise and voice of the obstructor inputted to the plurality of microphones based on at least one of the noise level information and the first information.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling circuitry changes the beam width and the dead zone formation intensity based on the noise level information and the first information.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1 , further comprising a noise level judging circuitry, wherein

the signal acquiring circuitry acquires a noise signal as a signal of the noise outputted from the plurality of microphones, and

the noise level judging circuitry judges the noise level based on the noise signal.

4. An information processing device comprising:

a signal acquiring circuitry to acquire a voice signal of an object person outputted from a plurality of microphones;

a speech level acquiring circuitry to acquire a speech level indicating a degree of speech of the obstructor from a speech level generation device that generates the speech level;

a speech judging circuitry to judge whether the obstructor is speaking while obstructing the speech of the object person or not by using the speech level and a speech level judgment threshold value as a predetermined threshold value; and

a controlling circuitry to acquire at least one of noise level information indicating a noise level of noise and first information as information indicating a result of the judgment and change a beam width as a width of a beam corresponding to an angular range of acquired sound, centering at the beam representing a direction in which voice of the object person is inputted to the plurality of microphones, and dead zone formation intensity as a degree of suppressing at least one of the noise and voice of the obstructor inputted to the plurality of microphones based on at least one of the noise level information and the first information.

Assignments (3)
COMPANY SPLIT Recorded Sep 4, 2024
From: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MOBILITY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 068834/0585 →
ASSIGNMENT BY DECLARATION Recorded May 3, 2022
From: ITO, AKIHIRO
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062942/0336 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 20, 2022
From: FURUTA, SATORU
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059803/0200 →