Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Microphone array, monitoring system, and sound pickup setting method
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Application No.: US15528552Application Date: 2015-12-09
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Publication No.: US09860635B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Teppei Fukuda , Shuichi Watanabe , Hiroyuki Matsumoto , Hisashi Tsuji
- Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2014-253374 20141215; JP2015-029920 20150218
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/006127 WO 20151209
- International Announcement: WO2016/098315 WO 20160623
- Main IPC: H04R1/40
- IPC: H04R1/40 ; H04R3/00 ; H04N7/18 ; H04R1/02 ; H04N5/225

Abstract:
When a microphone array apparatus sound-picks up voice in a prescribed sound volume or higher, which is output from a sound source, and sends voice data on the voice to voice processing apparatus, a sound source direction detection unit causes sound source marks, each of which indicates a directivity direction, to be displayed on a display, and urges a user to make a selection among the sound source marks and to input camera information. A voice processing apparatus transmits the camera information that is input, and the directivity direction, to the microphone array apparatus. The microphone array apparatus stores the camera information and the directivity direction, as a preset information table, in a storage unit. Accordingly, where a positional relationship between the camera and the microphone array is unclear, directionality is formed in a determined image capture position, and voice in the predetermined image capture position is output clearly.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170264999A1 MICROPHONE ARRAY, MONITORING SYSTEM, AND SOUND PICKUP SETTING METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-09-14
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