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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2020
Espressif Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Yang Zhao, Shanghai, CN;
ESPRESSIF SYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD., Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
A method for estimating a direction of arrival of sound signals from a microphone array, comprising: receiving sound signals from the microphone array, and performing beamforming on the sound signals to obtain wave beams and corresponding wave beam output signals; performing the following operation on each wave beam: converting the wave beam output signal of a current wave beam to frequency domain from time domain to obtain a frequency spectrum vector and a power spectrum vector; calculating comprehensive voice signal energy of the current wave beam, wherein the comprehensive voice signal energy is the product of comprehensive energy indicating the energy level of the wave beam output signal and a comprehensive voice existence probability indicating an existence probability of voice in the wave beam output signal; and selecting the wave beam with a maximal comprehensive voice signal energy value as the output wave beam.