Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Directivity control apparatus, directivity control method, storage medium and directivity control system
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Application No.: US15439990Application Date: 2017-02-23
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Publication No.: US09763001B2Publication Date: 2017-09-12
- Inventor: Shinichi Shigenaga , Akitoshi Izumi , Kazunori Hayashi , Toshimichi Tokuda , Hirotaka Sawa
- 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.
- Main IPC: H04R1/40
- IPC: H04R1/40 ; G06T7/20 ; G06T7/70 ; G11B27/00 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/262 ; G06F3/16 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
A directivity control apparatus controls a directivity of a sound collected by a first sound collecting unit including a plurality of microphones. The directivity control apparatus includes a directivity forming unit, configured to form a directivity of the sound in a direction toward a monitoring target corresponding to a first designated position in an image displayed on a display unit, and an information obtaining unit, configured to obtain information on a second designated position in the image displayed on the display unit, designated in accordance with a movement of the monitoring target. The directivity forming unit is configured to change the directivity of the sound toward the monitoring target corresponding to the second designated position by referring to the information on the second designated position obtained by the information obtaining unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170164103A1 DIRECTIVITY CONTROL APPARATUS, DIRECTIVITY CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM AND DIRECTIVITY CONTROL SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-06-08
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