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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Sound source enhancement technology is provided that is capable of improving sound source enhancement capabilities in accordance with settings of usage and applications. A PSD optimization device includes a PSD updating unit that takes a target sound PSD input value {circumflex over ( )}φS(ω, τ), an interference noise PSD input value {circumflex over ( )}φIN(ω, τ), and a background noise PSD input value {circumflex over ( )}φBN(ω, τ) as input, and generates a target sound PSD output value φS(ω, τ), an interference noise PSD output value {circumflex over ( )}φIN(ω, τ), and a background noise PSD output value {circumflex over ( )}φBN(ω, τ), by solving an optimization problem for a cost function relating to a variable uS representing a target sound PSD, a variable uIN representing an interference noise PSD, and a variable uBN representing a background noise PSD. The optimization problem for the cost function is defined using at least one of a constraint relating to a frequency structure of a sound source or a convex cost term relating to the frequency structure of the sound source, a constraint relating to a temporal structure of the sound source or a convex cost term relating to the temporal structure of the sound source, and a constraint relating to a spatial structure of the sound source or a convex cost term relating to the spatial structure of the sound source.