APPARATUS FOR REMOVING HOWLING AND METHOD FOR REMOVING HOWLING

    公开(公告)号:US20170223454A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-03

    申请号:US15485434

    申请日:2017-04-12

    CPC classification number: H04R3/02 H04M9/08 H04R3/04

    Abstract: A howling removing apparatus according to the present disclosure is a howling removing apparatus to be connected to a microphone and a speaker. The howling removing apparatus includes: a nonlinear converter that nonlinearly converts a sound signal input to the speaker and outputs a nonlinear signal; a delay unit that delays the sound signal by a fixed time and outputs a delay signal; a norm calculator that calculates a norm from the delay signal; a filter coefficient generator that, based on the nonlinear signal, the delay signal and the norm, generates an adaptive filter that simulates a transfer characteristic of a space where the sound signal is reproduced from the speaker and is returned to the microphone; a cancel signal generator that convolves the delay signal and the adaptive filter with each other and generates a cancel signal; and a subtracter that subtracts the cancel signal from the sound signal. When an average sound pressure level of the sound signal exceeds a threshold value, the filter coefficient generator initializes the adaptive filter, thereby sensing oscillation of the adaptive filter even when a positional relationship between the microphone and the speaker is dynamically changed, and returning an output to normal.

    SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SOUND PROCESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200245066A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-30

    申请号:US16751857

    申请日:2020-01-24

    Abstract: A sound processing apparatus includes n number of microphones that are disposed correspondingly to n number of persons and that mainly collect sound signals uttered by respective relevant persons, a filter that suppresses crosstalk components included in a talker sound signal collected by a microphone corresponding to at least one talker using the sound signals collected by the n number of microphones, a parameter updater that updates a parameter of the filter for suppressing the crosstalk components and stores an update result in the memory in a case where a predetermined condition including time at which at least one talker talks is satisfied, and a sound output controller that outputs the sound signals, acquired by subtracting the crosstalk components by the filter from the talker sound signals based on the update result, from a speaker.

    CONTROL DEVICE, PROCESSING METHOD FOR CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20240430635A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-26

    申请号:US18830143

    申请日:2024-09-10

    Abstract: A control device controls sound of a plurality of speakers. The control device includes: a generation unit acquiring image data and generates display image data from the image data by using conversion processing using shape information indicating a shape of a display surface; a display controller displaying a display image on the display surface by using the display image data; a receiver causing a cursor to be superimposed and displayed on the display image and receives position designation related to the plurality of speakers on the display image from a user who has visually recognized the cursor; and an identification unit calculating a position of the cursor from the position designation by referring to a correspondence relationship between the image data before the conversion processing and the display image data after the conversion processing, and identifying the position of the cursor as a position related to the plurality of speakers.

    CONVERSATION SUPPORT DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210006900A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-07

    申请号:US17023924

    申请日:2020-09-17

    Inventor: Hiromasa OHASHI

    Abstract: A conversation support device includes: a speaker; a microphone; a noise source acquisition unit that acquires a noise signal indicating noise; a first calculator that calculates a transfer characteristic of a secondary path between the speaker and the microphone; an echo cancellation unit that cancels an echo by using the transfer characteristic of the secondary path; a second calculator that calculates a coefficient of an adaptive filter, based on the transfer characteristic of the secondary path and the noise signal; and an active noise cancellation controller that generates a noise cancelling signal by using the coefficient of the adaptive filter and the noise signal. The noise cancelling signal is for controlling cancellation of the noise.

    ACOUSTIC CROSSTALK SUPPRESSION DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC CROSSTALK SUPPRESSION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20220415337A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-29

    申请号:US17778277

    申请日:2020-11-16

    Abstract: An acoustic crosstalk suppression device includes a speaker estimation unit configured to estimate a main speaker based on voice signals collected by n units of microphones corresponding to n number of persons (n: an integer equal to or larger than 3); n units of filter update units each of which is configured to update a parameter of a filter configured to generate a suppression signal of a crosstalk component included in a voice signal of the main speaker; and a crosstalk suppression unit configured to suppress the crosstalk component by using a synthesis suppression signal generated by the maximum (n-1) units of filter update units corresponding to reference signals collected by the maximum (n-1) units of microphones.

    ACOUSTIC NOISE SUPPRESSING APPARATUS AND ACOUSTIC NOISE SUPPRESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200321017A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-08

    申请号:US16841199

    申请日:2020-04-06

    Abstract: An acoustic noise suppressing apparatus outputs a first suppression audio signal in which the acoustic noise is suppressed by subtracting a first pseudo noise signal from the picked up audio signal, the first pseudo noise signal being generated based on a first delay signal and a first filter updated by a first algorithm which is valid when a plurality of talkers are talking, and outputs a second suppression audio signal in which the acoustic noise is suppressed by subtracting a second pseudo noise signal from the picked up audio signal, the second pseudo noise signal being generated based on a second delay signal and a second filter updated by a second algorithm which is valid when one talker is talking. The apparatus outputs a suppressed one of the first suppressed audio signal or the second suppressed audio signal.

    CONTROL DEVICE, PROCESSING METHOD FOR CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230037195A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17967471

    申请日:2022-10-17

    Abstract: A control device controls sound of a plurality of speakers. The control device includes: a generation unit acquiring image data and generates display image data from the image data by using conversion processing using shape information indicating a shape of a display surface; a display controller displaying a display image on the display surface by using the display image data; a receiver causing a cursor to be superimposed and displayed on the display image and receives position designation related to the plurality of speakers on the display image from a user who has visually recognized the cursor; and an identification unit calculating a position of the cursor from the position designation by referring to a correspondence relationship between the image data before the conversion processing and the display image data after the conversion processing, and identifying the position of the cursor as a position related to the plurality of speakers.

    ACOUSTIC ECHO SUPPRESSION DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC ECHO SUPPRESSION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200007690A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-02

    申请号:US16489897

    申请日:2018-01-29

    Abstract: A microphone picks-up voice of a driver. A first echo suppression unit outputs a voice signal after first echo suppression based on a voice signal of the driver and a voice signal after echo suppression in the past (first reference signal) stored in a buffer memory. A second echo suppression unit outputs a voice signal after second echo suppression based on a voice signal of the driver and a voice signal after the echo suppression in the past (second reference signal) stored in a buffer memory. An output signal selector selects one of the voice signals after the first echo suppression or the voice signal after the second echo suppression according to a detection result of the presence or absence of a system variation by a system variation detector, and causes a speaker to output the selected voice signal.

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