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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Taro Masuda, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Toru Taniguchi, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0272 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0272 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a signal processing system senses and receives generated signals of a plurality of signal sources, estimates a separation filter based on the received signals of the sensor for each frame, separates the received signals based on the filter to obtain separated signals, computes a directional characteristics distribution for each of the separated signals, obtains a cumulative distribution indicating the directional characteristics distribution for each of the separated signals output in a previous frame, computes a similarity of the cumulative distribution to the directional characteristics distribution of the separated signals of a current frame, and connects to a signal selected from the separated signals based on the similarity.


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