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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2017
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Hirotaka Sawa, Tokyo, JP;
Toshimichi Tokuda, Fukuoka, JP;
Shinichi Shigenaga, Tokyo, JP;
Shuichi Watanabe, Fukuoka, JP;
Shojiro Matsuo, Fukuoka, JP;
Takashi Hirabara, Fukuoka, JP;
Tadashi Maki, Fukuoka, JP;
Hisashi Tsuji, Fukuoka, JP;
Teppei Fukuda, Fukuoka, JP;
Akitoshi Izumi, Fukuoka, JP;
Shintaro Yoshikuni, Fukuoka, JP;
Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Fukuoka, JP;
Kazunori Hayashi, Fukuoka, JP;
Kosuke Shinozaki, Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
A directionality control system includes: a camera; a microphone provided as a separate body from the camera; a display that displays video data captured by the camera; and a processor that computes a sound collection direction, which is directed from the microphone toward a sound position corresponding to a designated position in the video data. The processor computes the sound collection direction by using parameters including: a first height of the camera from a reference surface, a second height of the microphone from the reference surface, a third height of a computation reference point from the reference surface, the computation reference point being positioned in the sound collection direction at a position different from the sound position, a direction which is directed from the camera toward the sound position, and a fourth height of the sound position from the reference surface.