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Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2022
Applicants:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Kogakuin University, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuhiro Nakadai, Wako, JP;

Masayuki Takigahira, Wako, JP;

Hirofumi Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04S 3/008 (2013.01); H04S 7/30 (2013.01); H04S 2400/01 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01);
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.


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