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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2012
Naotake Fujita, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiyuki Nomura, Tokyo, JP;
Naotake Fujita, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiyuki Nomura, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sound processing device according to the present invention includes: a time-frequency analysis means which generates a time-frequency plane from a sound signal through time-frequency analysis; a region characteristic amount extraction means which, for a plurality of partial region pairs which is defined on the time-frequency plane and of which at least either of shapes of two partial regions or positions of the two partial regions differ from one another, extracts a region characteristic amount from each partial region; and a sound identifier generation means which generates a sound identifier which identifies the sound by using the region characteristic amount from the each partial region.