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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2014
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Hirotaka Sawa, Tokyo, JP;
Toshimichi Tokuda, Fukuoka, JP;
Shinichi Shigenaga, Tokyo, JP;
Shuichi Watanabe, Fukuoka, JP;
Shojiro Matsuo, Fukuoka, JP;
Takashi Hirabara, Fukuoka, JP;
Tadashi Maki, Fukuoka, JP;
Hisashi Tsuji, Fukuoka, JP;
Teppei Fukuda, Fukuoka, JP;
Akitoshi Izumi, Fukuoka, JP;
Shintaro Yoshikuni, Fukuoka, JP;
Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Fukuoka, JP;
Kazunori Hayashi, Fukuoka, JP;
Kosuke Shinozaki, Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
Sound collection directionality is formed toward a location corresponding to a position designated in a video of a predetermined region which is imaged by a camera apparatus with a microphone array apparatus as a reference, and audio data is collected with high accuracy. In a directionality control system (), a signal processing unit () derives a sound collection direction (θ,θ) which is directed from an installation position of a microphone array apparatus () toward a sound position corresponding to a position designated in video data on a screen of the display device () in response to a user's designation of any position in the video data displayed on the screen. The signal processing unit () forms sound collection directionality of audio data in the derived sound collection direction (θ,θ).