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Granted Patent B2
US 9,398,387 · App. 14/075,015 · Granted Jul 19, 2016

Sound processing device, sound processing method, and program

Inventors: Takashi Shibuya (Tokyo, JP); Mototsugu Abe (Kanagawa, JP); Masayuki Nishiguchi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Sony Corporation
H04R29/00H04R3/04
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Patent No.
US 9,398,387
App. No.
14/075,015
Granted
Jul 19, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a sound processing device including an input signal processing unit configured to calculate a first acoustic feature quantity indicating a likelihood being of a sinusoidal wave of a signal in each time frequency domain and a second acoustic feature quantity different from the first acoustic feature quantity based on an input signal of content to be identified, a reference signal processing unit configured to calculate the first acoustic feature quantity and the second acoustic feature quantity based on a reference signal of content prepared in advance, and a matching processing unit configured to calculate a similarity between the input signal and the reference signal based on the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the input signal and the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the reference signal.

Claims (17)

1. A sound processing device comprising:

processing circuitry that functions as:

an input signal processing unit configured to calculate a first acoustic feature quantity indicating a likelihood of being a sinusoidal wave of a signal in each time frequency domain and a second acoustic feature quantity different from the first acoustic feature quantity based on an input signal of content to be identified;

a reference signal processing unit configured to calculate the first acoustic feature quantity and the second acoustic feature quantity based on a reference signal of content prepared in advance; and

a matching processing unit configured to calculate a similarity between the input signal and the reference signal based on the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the input signal and the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the reference signal and to output content attribute data of the content to be identified based on the similarity.

2. The sound processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the matching processing unit is configured to generate a mask pattern indicating a likelihood of being a signal of the content to be identified in each time frequency domain based on the first acoustic feature quantity of the input signal and the first acoustic feature quantity of the reference signal, and to calculate the similarity based on the mask pattern, the first acoustic feature quantity, and the second acoustic feature quantity.

3. The sound processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the matching processing unit is further configured to calculate a similarity between the first acoustic feature quantity of the input signal and the first acoustic feature quantity of the reference signal, and to calculate the similarity between the input signal and the reference signal based on the mask pattern, the similarity between the first acoustic feature quantities, and the second acoustic feature quantity.

4. The sound processing device according to claim 3 , wherein the matching processing unit is configured to calculate the similarity between the first acoustic feature quantities by making a contribution ratio of the reference signal to the similarity between the first acoustic feature quantities larger than a contribution ratio of the input signal to the similarity between the first acoustic feature quantities.

5. The sound processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the second acoustic feature quantity is calculated based on a spectrogram of the input signal or the reference signal and has a same granularity in a time axis and a frequency axis as the first acoustic feature quantity.

6. A sound processing method comprising:

calculating, by processing circuitry, a first acoustic feature quantity indicating a likelihood of being a sinusoidal wave of a signal in each time frequency domain and a second acoustic feature quantity different from the first acoustic feature quantity based on an input signal of content to be identified;

calculating, by the processing circuitry, the first acoustic feature quantity and the second acoustic feature quantity based on a reference signal of content prepared in advance; and

calculating, by the processing circuitry, a similarity between the input signal and the reference signal based on the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the input signal and the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the reference signal and outputting content attribute data of the content to be identified based on the similarity.

7. A computer-readable device encoded with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, perform a sound processing method comprising:

calculating a first acoustic feature quantity indicating a likelihood of being a sinusoidal wave of a signal in each time frequency domain and a second acoustic feature quantity different from the first acoustic feature quantity based on an input signal of content to be identified;

calculating the first acoustic feature quantity and the second acoustic feature quantity based on a reference signal of content prepared in advance; and

calculating a similarity between the input signal and the reference signal based on the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the input signal and the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the reference signal and outputting content attribute data of the content to be identified based on the similarity.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 27, 2013
From: SHIBUYA, TAKASHI; ABE, MOTOTSUGU; NISHIGUCHI, MASAYUKI
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 031744/0237 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2012-251809 · Nov 16, 2012 · national
JP 2013-037542 · Feb 27, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140140519A1 · May 22, 2014