Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sound source separation device, speech recognition device, mobile telephone, sound source separation method, and program
- Patent Title (中): 声源分离装置,语音识别装置,移动电话,声源分离方法和程序
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Application No.: US11990200Application Date: 2006-08-11
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Publication No.: US08112272B2Publication Date: 2012-02-07
- Inventor: Katsumasa Nagahama , Shinya Matsui
- Applicant: Katsumasa Nagahama , Shinya Matsui
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Asashi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Asashi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2005-233195 20050811
- International Application: PCT/JP2006/315953 WO 20060811
- International Announcement: WO2007/018293 WO 20070215
- Main IPC: H04H40/63
- IPC: H04H40/63 ; G10L21/02

Abstract:
A sound source signal from a target sound source is allowed to be separated from a mixed sound which consists of sound source signals emitted from a plurality of sound sources without being affected by uneven sensitivity of microphone elements. A beamformer section 3 of a source separation device 1 performs beamforming processing for attenuating sound source signals arriving from directions symmetrical with respect to a perpendicular line to a straight line connecting two microphones 10 and 11 respectively by multiplying output signals from the microphones 10 and 11 after spectrum analysis by weighted coefficients which are complex conjugate to each other. Power computation sections 40 and 41 compute power spectrum information, and target sound spectrum extraction sections 50 and 51 extract spectrum information of a target sound source based on a difference between the power spectrum information.
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