Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voice acquisition system and voice acquisition method
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Application No.: US15704681Application Date: 2017-09-14
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Publication No.: US10381003B2Publication Date: 2019-08-13
- Inventor: Youhei Wakisaka , Hitoshi Yamada , Tomoya Takatani , Narimasa Watanabe
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2016-184189 20160921
- Main IPC: G10L15/22
- IPC: G10L15/22 ; B25J11/00 ; G05D1/02 ; B25J13/00 ; H04R3/00 ; G10L15/30 ; G10L21/0272 ; H04R1/02

Abstract:
A voice acquisition system includes a plurality of mobile objects each of which includes one or more microphones and is movable around a sound source; a sound source number estimating unit which estimates the number of sound sources in a vicinity of any of the mobile objects; and a control unit which controls positions of the mobile objects, wherein the control unit controls, based on the number of sound sources in a vicinity of a first mobile object, a position of a second mobile object which differs from the first mobile object, and the voice acquisition system acquires voice using both a microphone included in the first mobile object and a microphone included in the second mobile object.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180082686A1 VOICE ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND VOICE ACQUISITION METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-03-22
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