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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2010
Hsin-chieh Huang, Minxiong Township, Chiayi County, TW;
Wen-kuo Lin, Taipei, TW;
Chih-wei Kao, Puli Township, Nantou County, TW;
Hsin-Chieh Huang, Minxiong Township, Chiayi County, TW;
Wen-Kuo Lin, Taipei, TW;
Chih-Wei Kao, Puli Township, Nantou County, TW;
TECO Electronic & Machinery Co., Ltd., Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A system for localizing an acoustic source is provided. This system includes a microphone apparatus, an audio processing apparatus, a photographing apparatus, and a decision apparatus. The microphone apparatus receives an acoustic signal and generates at least one received audio signal. The audio processing apparatus generates first location information based on the at least one received audio signal. The decision apparatus generates depth information based on at least one image captured by the photographing apparatus. According to the first location information, the at least one captured image, and the depth information, the decision apparatus determines a location corresponding to the source of the acoustic signal.