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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
May. 18, 2016
Applicant:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuhiro Katagiri, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/20 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01); H04R 1/32 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04R 1/326 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01); H04R 2430/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a sound collection apparatus, including a directionality formation unit configured to form a directionality in a direction of a target area for input signals from a plurality of microphone arrays, a target area sound extraction unit configured to correct a delay between a target area and each of the microphone arrays, and a power of a target area sound component for an output from the directionality formation unit, suppress a non-target area sound by using each output after correction, and extract a target area sound, an area sound enhancement filter formation unit, and an area sound emphasis unit.