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- Patent Title: Wave-source-direction estimation device, wave-source-direction estimation method, and program storage medium
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Application No.: US17252405Application Date: 2018-06-25
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Publication No.: US11408963B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Yumi Arai , Reishi Kondo , Yuzo Senda
- Applicant: NEC Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NEC Corporation
- Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/023971 WO 20180625
- International Announcement: WO2020/003343 WO 20200102
- Main IPC: G01S3/808
- IPC: G01S3/808 ; G10L25/06 ; G10L25/18 ; H04R1/40 ; H04R3/00

Abstract:
A wave-source-direction estimation device includes: a plurality of input units that acquires, as input signals, electrical signals based on waves detected by a plurality of sensors; a signal selection unit that selects a plurality of pairs that are each a combination of two input signals from among a plurality of the input signals; a relative delay time calculation unit that calculates, as relative delay times, arrival time differences of the waves at the sensors that are supply sources of the two input signals composing each of the pairs, for each wave source direction; and an integrated-estimated-direction-information calculation unit that generates per-frequency estimated direction information for each of the pairs using the input signals composing each of the pairs and the relative delay times of each of the pairs and generates integrated estimated direction information by assigning a weight to and integrating the estimated direction information on all the pairs.
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