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Granted Patent B2
US 11,750,299 · App. 17/623,008 · Granted Sep 5, 2023

Communication apparatus and communication method

Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukumoto (Musashino, JP); Yosuke Fujino (Musashino, JP); Marina Nakano (Musashino, JP); Kazunori Akabane (Musashino, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
H04B11/00H04B13/02H04L5/0048H04L5/0082H04L25/0202
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Patent No.
US 11,750,299
App. No.
17/623,008
Granted
Sep 5, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A communication device includes a channel estimation unit configured to estimate an impulse response based on signals of sound waves received by each of a plurality of hydrophones, a long delay removal unit configured to remove a long-delay impulse response from the impulse response to generate a post-removal impulse response, a weighting factor calculation unit configured to calculate a weighting factor based on the post-removal impulse response, and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the signals received by each of the plurality of hydrophones based on the weighting factor.

Claims (35)

1. A communication device comprising:

a processor; and

a storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, wherein the computer program instructions, when executed by the processor, perform to:

estimate an impulse response based on a signal of a sound wave received individually by a plurality of hydrophones;

remove a long-delay impulse response from the impulse response to generate a post-removal impulse response;

calculate a weighting factor based on the post-removal impulse response; and

synthesize the signal received by each of the plurality of hydrophones based on the weighting factor.

2. A communication device comprising:

a processor; and

a storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, wherein the computer program instructions, when executed by the processor, perform to:

filter a signal of a sound wave received individually by a plurality of hydrophones and synthesize the signals;

calculate, with a signal based on a known signal or an unknown signal as a training signal, an error between the signal and the training signal; and

update, based on the error, a weighting factor to be used in filtering.

3. The communication device according to claim 2 , wherein the computer program instructions further perform to:

estimate an impulse response based on the signal;

remove a long-delay impulse response from the impulse response to generate a post-removal impulse response;

filter, based on the post-removal impulse response, the signal based on the known signal or the unknown signal; and

with a signal synthesized with the signal filtered as a training signal, a weighting factor to be used in.

4. The communication device according to claim 3 , wherein the computer program instructions further perform to:

determine, based on the post-removal impulse response, an initial value of the weighting factor.

5. The communication device according to claim 2 , wherein the computer program instructions further perform to:

equalize interference remaining after the filtering;

mitigate the residual interference; and

adaptively update, based on the signal based on the known signal or the unknown signal, a weighting factor.

6. The communication device according to claim 5 , wherein the computer program instructions further perform to:

filter the signal based on the known signal or the unknown signal with a regression filter to reproduce a replica signal of the signal; and

adaptively update, with the replica signal as a training signal, a weighting factor.

7. A communication method comprising:

estimating an impulse response based on a signal of a sound wave received individually by a plurality of hydrophones;

removing a long-delay impulse response from the impulse response and generating a post-removal impulse response;

calculating a weighting factor based on the post-removal impulse response; and

synthesizing, based on the weighting factor, the signal received by each of the plurality of hydrophones.

8. A communication method comprising:

filtering a signal of a sound wave received individually by a plurality of hydrophones and synthesizing the signals; and

calculating, with a signal based on a known signal or an unknown signal as a training signal, an error between the signal and the training signal and updating a weighting factor to be used in the filtering.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 27, 2021
From: FUKUMOTO, HIROYUKI; FUJINO, YOSUKE; NAKANO, MARINA; AKABANE, KAZUNORI
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058481/0926 →
Continuity (1)
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