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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2009
Applicants:
Hirokazu Takeuchi, Machida, JP;
Hiroshi Yonekubo, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hirokazu Takeuchi, Machida, JP;
Hiroshi Yonekubo, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment, sound quality control processing for speech or music is performed by calculating various kinds of characteristic parameters to determine a speech signal and a music signal from an input audio signal and determining the input audio signal closer to the speech signal or music signal based on a score difference between a sum of scores provided to characteristic parameters indicating the speech signal and that of scores provided to characteristic parameters indicating the music signal.