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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2009
Kazuhiro Nakadai, Wako, JP;
Yuji Hasegawa, Wako, JP;
Hiroshi Tsujino, Wako, JP;
Kazumasa Murata, Tokyo, JP;
Ryu Takeda, Kyoto, JP;
Hiroshi Okuno, Kyoto, JP;
Kazuhiro Nakadai, Wako, JP;
Yuji Hasegawa, Wako, JP;
Hiroshi Tsujino, Wako, JP;
Kazumasa Murata, Tokyo, JP;
Ryu Takeda, Kyoto, JP;
Hiroshi Okuno, Kyoto, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A robot includes: a sound collecting unit collecting and converting a musical sound into a musical acoustic signal; a voice signal generating unit generating a self-vocalized voice signal; a sound outputting unit converting the self-vocalized voice signal into a sound and outputting the sound; a self-vocalized voice regulating unit receiving the musical acoustic signal and the self-vocalized voice signal; a filtering unit performing a filtering process; a beat interval reliability calculating unit performing a time-frequency pattern matching process and calculating a beat interval reliability; a beat interval estimating unit estimating a beat interval; a beat time reliability calculating unit calculating a beat time reliability; a beat time estimating unit estimating a beat time on the basis of the calculated beat time reliability; a beat time predicting unit predicting a beat time before the current time; and a synchronization unit synchronizing the self-vocalized voice signal.