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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2008
David J Huber, Venice, CA (US);
Deepak Khosla, Camarillo, CA (US);
Paul Alex Dow, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David J Huber, Venice, CA (US);
Deepak Khosla, Camarillo, CA (US);
Paul Alex Dow, Los Angeles, CA (US);
HRL Labortories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes a fused saliency map from visual and auditory saliency maps. The saliency maps are in azimuth and elevation coordinates. The auditory saliency map is based on intensity, frequency and temporal conspicuity maps. Once the auditory saliency map is determined, the map is converted into azimuth and elevation coordinates by processing selected snippets of sound from each of four microphones arranged on a robot head to detect the location of the sound source generating the saliencies.