Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Directionality control system, calibration method, horizontal deviation angle computation method, and directionality control method
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Application No.: US15830776Application Date: 2017-12-04
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Publication No.: US10244162B2Publication Date: 2019-03-26
- Inventor: Hirotaka Sawa , Toshimichi Tokuda , Shinichi Shigenaga , Shuichi Watanabe , Shojiro Matsuo , Takashi Hirabara , Tadashi Maki , Hisashi Tsuji , Teppei Fukuda , Akitoshi Izumi , Shintaro Yoshikuni , Hiroyuki Matsumoto , Kazunori Hayashi , Kosuke Shinozaki
- 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: JP2013-028402 20130215; JP2013-119850 20130606; JP2013-129964 20130620; JP2013-154867 20130725; JP2013-217707 20131018
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; G01S3/786 ; H04R1/40 ; H04R1/04 ; G01S3/785 ; H04S7/00

Abstract:
A directionality control system includes: a camera; a microphone provided as a separate body from the camera; a display that displays video data captured by the camera; and a processor that computes a sound collection direction, which is directed from the microphone toward a sound position corresponding to a designated position in the video data. The processor computes the sound collection direction by using parameters including: a first height of the camera from a reference surface, a second height of the microphone from the reference surface, a third height of a computation reference point from the reference surface, the computation reference point being positioned in the sound collection direction at a position different from the sound position, a direction which is directed from the camera toward the sound position, and a fourth height of the sound position from the reference surface.
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