Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voice extraction device, voice extraction method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium
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Application No.: US16122338Application Date: 2018-09-05
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Publication No.: US11120819B2Publication Date: 2021-09-14
- Inventor: Motoi Omachi
- Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JPJP2017-171820 20170907
- Main IPC: G10L15/22
- IPC: G10L15/22 ; G10L25/18 ; H04R5/04 ; H04R3/00 ; G10L25/78 ; G10L21/0208 ; G10L21/0216 ; H04R1/40

Abstract:
A voice extraction device according to the present invention includes a formation unit, an acquisition unit, an emphasis unit, a generation unit, and a selection unit. The formation unit forms directivity through beam-forming processing for each microphone in a microphone array including a plurality of microphones that form a plurality of channels. The acquisition unit acquires an observation signal that is a signal of voice received by each of the channels. The emphasis unit generates an emphasized signal by emphasizing the observation signal in accordance with the directivity formed by the formation unit. The generation unit generates, for each channel, frequency distribution of amplitude of the emphasized signal generated by the emphasis unit. The selection unit selects a channel corresponding to a voice signal used for voice recognition from among the channels based on the frequency distribution corresponding to the respective channels generated by the generation unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190074030A1 VOICE EXTRACTION DEVICE, VOICE EXTRACTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2019-03-07
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