IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,348,938
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US 12,348,938 · App. 17/899,668 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Acoustic processing device, acoustic processing method, and storage medium

Inventors: Kazuhiro Nakadai (Wako, JP); Masayuki Takigahira (Wako, JP); Hirofumi Nakajima (Tokyo, JP)
Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.; KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY
H04R3/005H04R1/406H04S3/008H04S7/30H04S2400/01H04S2400/15
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Patent No.
US 12,348,938
App. No.
17/899,668
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A storage unit stores a first transfer function representing a transfer characteristic of a sound from a sound source for each sound source direction, a sound source direction estimating unit calculates a conversion coefficient of an acoustic signal for each channel in a frequency domain and a spatial spectrum for each sound source direction on the basis of the first transfer function and estimates a sound source direction in which the spatial spectrum becomes a maximum as an estimated sound source direction, a transfer function estimating unit estimates a transfer function for the estimated sound source direction as a second transfer function by normalizing the conversion coefficients among channels, and a transfer function updating unit updates the first transfer function for the estimated sound source direction using the second transfer function.

Claims (24)

1. An acoustic processing device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store a first transfer function representing a transfer characteristic of a sound from a sound source for each sound source direction;

a sound source direction estimating unit configured to calculate a conversion coefficient of an acoustic signal for each channel in a frequency domain and a spatial spectrum for each sound source direction on the basis of the first transfer function and estimate a sound source direction in which the spatial spectrum becomes a maximum as an estimated sound source direction;

a transfer function estimating unit configured to estimate a transfer function for the estimated sound source direction as a second transfer function by normalizing the conversion coefficients among channels; and

a transfer function updating unit configured to update the first transfer function for the estimated sound source direction using the second transfer function,

wherein the transfer function estimating unit normalizes amplitudes of the conversion coefficients for the channels using a norm of the conversion coefficients among the channels and normalizes phases of the conversion coefficients for the channels using a total sum of the phases of the conversion coefficients among the channels.

2. The acoustic processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the transfer function updating unit updates at least some components of the first transfer function with the components of the second transfer function every predetermined time.

3. The acoustic processing device according to claim 1 , further comprising a sound source separating unit configured to set a separation matrix for the estimated sound source direction on the basis of the first transfer function for the estimated sound source direction and sets a vector calculated by applying the separation matrix to an input vector having the conversion coefficients as its elements as an output vector having a sound source component arriving for each sound source as its elements.

4. The acoustic processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the transfer function updating unit updates the first transfer function when the number of sound sources detected from the acoustic signal is one, otherwise, the transfer function updating unit stops update of the first transfer function.

5. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium storing a program causing a computer to function as the acoustic processing device according to claim 1 .

6. An acoustic processing device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store a first transfer function representing a transfer characteristic of a sound from a sound source for each sound source direction;

a sound source direction estimating unit configured to calculate a conversion coefficient of an acoustic signal for each channel in a frequency domain and a spatial spectrum for each sound source direction on the basis of the first transfer function and estimate a sound source direction in which the spatial spectrum becomes a maximum as an estimated sound source direction;

a transfer function estimating unit configured to estimate a transfer function for the estimated sound source direction as a second transfer function by normalizing the conversion coefficients among channels; and

a transfer function updating unit configured to update the first transfer function for the estimated sound source direction using the second transfer function,

wherein the sound source direction estimating unit calculates a multiplexing signal classification spectrum on the basis of the conversion coefficient and the first transfer function as the spatial spectrum.

7. An acoustic processing method that is a method of an acoustic processing device including a storage unit configured to store a first transfer function representing a transfer characteristic of a sound from a sound source for each sound source direction, the acoustic processing method comprising:

calculating a conversion coefficient of an acoustic signal for each channel in a frequency domain and a spatial spectrum for each sound source direction on the basis of the first transfer function;

estimating a sound source direction in which the spatial spectrum becomes a maximum as an estimated sound source direction;

estimating a transfer function for the estimated sound source direction as a second transfer function by normalizing the conversion coefficients among channels; and

updating the first transfer function for the estimated sound source direction using the second transfer function,

wherein amplitudes of the conversion coefficients for the channels are normalized using a norm of the conversion coefficients among the channels, and

wherein phases of the conversion coefficients for the channels are normalized using a total sum of the phases of the conversion coefficients among the channels.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 21, 2022
From: NAKADAI, KAZUHIRO; TAKIGAHIRA, MASAYUKI; NAKAJIMA, HIROFUMI
To: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.; KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY
Reel/Frame 061168/0123 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-145441 · Sep 7, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230076123A1 · Mar 9, 2023
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