公开(公告)号：US08620388B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-31

申请号：US12494779

申请日：2009-06-30

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo ,  Hiroshi Katayama

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo ,  Hiroshi Katayama

IPC分类号： H04M1/00

CPC分类号： G10L21/0208 ,  G10L2021/02165 ,  G10L2021/02166

摘要： A noise suppressing device receives sound signals through a plurality of sound-receiving units and suppresses noise components included in the input sound signals. The noise suppressing device includes a detecting unit which detects a usage pattern of the noise suppressing device from a plurality of usage patterns in which positional relationships of the plurality of sound-receiving units and/or positional relationships between the plurality of sound-receiving units and a target sound source are different from each other, a converting unit which converts using environment information used in a noise suppressing process to each of the sound signals inputted by the plurality of sound-receiving units into using environment information in accordance with a usage pattern detected by the detecting unit and a suppressing unit which performs the noise suppressing process using the using environment information converted by the converting unit to the sound signals.

摘要翻译： 噪声抑制装置通过多个声音接收单元接收声音信号，并抑制包含在输入声音信号中的噪声分量。 噪声抑制装置包括检测单元，其从多个使用模式中检测噪声抑制装置的使用模式，多个使用模式中多个声音接收单元的位置关系和/或多个声音接收单元之间的位置关系和 目标声源彼此不同;转换单元，其根据检测到的使用模式，将使用在噪声抑制处理中的环境信息转换为由多个声音接收单元输入的每个声音信号变为使用环境信息 通过检测单元和抑制单元，该抑制单元使用由转换单元转换成的声音信号进行噪声抑制处理。

公开(公告)号：US20100056227A1

公开(公告)日：2010-03-04

申请号：US12494779

申请日：2009-06-30

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo ,  Hiroshi Katayama

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo ,  Hiroshi Katayama

IPC分类号： H04B15/00 ,  H04M1/00

CPC分类号： G10L21/0208 ,  G10L2021/02165 ,  G10L2021/02166

摘要： A noise suppressing device receives sound signals through a plurality of sound-receiving units and suppresses noise components included in the input sound signals. The noise suppressing device includes a detecting unit which detects a usage pattern of the noise suppressing device from a plurality of usage patterns in which positional relationships of the plurality of sound-receiving units and/or positional relationships between the plurality of sound-receiving units and a target sound source are different from each other, a converting unit which converts using environment information used in a noise suppressing process to each of the sound signals inputted by the plurality of sound-receiving units into using environment information in accordance with a usage pattern detected by the detecting unit and a suppressing unit which performs the noise suppressing process using the using environment information converted by the converting unit to the sound signals.

摘要翻译： 噪声抑制装置通过多个声音接收单元接收声音信号，并抑制包含在输入声音信号中的噪声分量。 噪声抑制装置包括检测单元，其从多个使用模式中检测噪声抑制装置的使用模式，多个使用模式中多个声音接收单元的位置关系和/或多个声音接收单元之间的位置关系和 目标声源彼此不同;转换单元，其根据检测到的使用模式，将使用在噪声抑制处理中的环境信息转换为由多个声音接收单元输入的每个声音信号变为使用环境信息 通过检测单元和抑制单元，该抑制单元使用由转换单元转换成的声音信号进行噪声抑制处理。

公开(公告)号：US20100008519A1

公开(公告)日：2010-01-14

申请号：US12453173

申请日：2009-04-30

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

IPC分类号： H04B15/00

CPC分类号： G10L21/0208 ,  G10L21/0216 ,  G10L21/0224 ,  G10L2021/02165 ,  G10L2021/02166

摘要： There is provided a noise suppressing device, for suppressing a noise component contained in a sound, including: at least two sound receiving parts receiving sounds from a plurality of directions containing a sound from a direction of a given sound source and converting the sounds to digital sound signals in a time domain, respectively; an estimating part acquiring both direction information on a direction of the given sound source and distance information on a distance from the given sound source based upon the digital sound signals converted by the sound receiving parts, and estimating a component value of a noise component contained in the signal by use of the direction information and the distance information; and a controlling part acquiring a control value of a suppression amount for controlling a range of a direction of the digital sound signals.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于抑制包含在声音中的噪声成分的噪声抑制装置，包括：至少两个声音接收部件，其从包含来自给定声源的方向的声音的多个方向接收声音，并将声音转换成数字 分别在时域中的声音信号; 估计部分基于由声音接收部分转换的数字声音信号，获取关于给定声源的方向的两个方向信息和距给定声源的距离的距离信息，以及估计包含在 信号通过使用方向信息和距离信息; 以及控制部，其获取用于控制数字声音信号的方向的范围的抑制量的控制值。

公开(公告)号：US08935168B2

公开(公告)日：2015-01-13

申请号：US13355779

申请日：2012-01-23

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

IPC分类号： G10L17/00

CPC分类号： G10L17/26

摘要： A state detecting device includes an input unit that receives an input voice sound; an analyzer that calculates a feature parameter of each of plurality of frames extracted from the voice sound; a calculator that calculates the average of the feature parameters of the frames, determines a threshold on the basis of the average and statistical data representing relationships between other averages of other feature parameters obtained from a plurality of speakers and cumulative frequencies of the other feature parameters, and calculates an appearance frequency of a frame that is among the plurality of frames and whose feature parameter is larger than the threshold; a determining unit that determines, on the basis of the appearance frequency, a strained state of a vocal cord that has made the voice sound; and an output unit that outputs a result of the determination.

摘要翻译： 一种状态检测装置，包括接收输入声音的输入单元; 分析器，其计算从所述声音提取的多个帧中的每一个的特征参数; 计算器，其计算帧的特征参数的平均值，基于表示从多个扬声器获得的其他特征参数的其他平均值和其他特征参数的累积频率之间的关系的平均值和统计数据确定阈值， 并计算多个帧中的帧的出现频率，其特征参数大于阈值; 确定单元，其基于出现频率确定已经发出声音的声带的应变状态; 以及输出单元，其输出确定的结果。

公开(公告)号：US09020820B2

公开(公告)日：2015-04-28

申请号：US13446019

申请日：2012-04-13

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

IPC分类号： G10L15/14 ,  G10L17/26 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G10L25/24 ,  G10L25/63 ,  G10L25/90

CPC分类号： G10L17/26 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G10L25/24 ,  G10L25/63 ,  G10L25/90

摘要： A state detecting apparatus includes: a processor to execute acquiring utterance data related to uttered speech, computing a plurality of statistical quantities for feature parameters regarding features of the utterance data, creating, on the basis of the plurality of statistical quantities regarding the utterance data and another plurality of statistical quantities regarding reference utterance data based on other uttered speech, pseudo-utterance data having at least one statistical quantity equal to a statistical quantity in the other plurality of statistical quantities, computing a plurality of statistical quantities for synthetic utterance data synthesized on the basis of the pseudo-utterance data and the utterance data, and determining, on the basis of a comparison between statistical quantities of the synthetic utterance data and statistical quantities of the reference utterance data, whether the speaker who produced the uttered speech is in a first state or a second state; and a memory.

摘要翻译： 一种状态检测装置，包括：处理器，用于执行获取与发话语音有关的话语数据，计算关于话语数据特征的特征参数的多个统计量，基于关于话语数据的多个统计量，以及 关于基于其他语音的参考话语数据的另外多个统计量，具有至少一个等于其他多个统计量中的统计量的统计量的伪话语数据，计算合成语音数据的多个统计量 伪话音数据和发声数据的基础，并且基于合成发音数据的统计量与参考语音数据的统计量之间的比较，确定产生发言语音的演讲者是否处于 第一状态或第二状态; 和记忆。

公开(公告)号：US09135924B2

公开(公告)日：2015-09-15

申请号：US12453173

申请日：2009-04-30

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

IPC分类号： H04B15/00 ,  G10L21/0208 ,  G10L21/0224 ,  G10L21/0216

CPC分类号： G10L21/0208 ,  G10L21/0216 ,  G10L21/0224 ,  G10L2021/02165 ,  G10L2021/02166

摘要： There is provided a noise suppressing device, for suppressing a noise component contained in a sound, including: at least two sound receiving parts receiving sounds from a plurality of directions containing a sound from a direction of a given sound source and converting the sounds to digital sound signals in a time domain, respectively; an estimating part acquiring both direction information on a direction of the given sound source and distance information on a distance from the given sound source based upon the digital sound signals converted by the sound receiving parts, and estimating a component value of a noise component contained in the signal by use of the direction information and the distance information; and a controlling part acquiring a control value of a suppression amount for controlling a range of a direction of the digital sound signals.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于抑制包含在声音中的噪声成分的噪声抑制装置，包括：至少两个声音接收部件，其从包含来自给定声源的方向的声音的多个方向接收声音，并将声音转换为数字 分别在时域中的声音信号; 估计部分基于由声音接收部分转换的数字声音信号，获取关于给定声源的方向的两个方向信息和距给定声源的距离的距离信息，以及估计包含在 信号通过使用方向信息和距离信息; 以及控制部，其获取用于控制数字声音信号的方向的范围的抑制量的控制值。

公开(公告)号：US08996373B2

公开(公告)日：2015-03-31

申请号：US13253683

申请日：2011-10-05

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa ,  Naoshi Matsuo

IPC分类号： G10L15/00 ,  G10L15/06 ,  G10L17/00 ,  G10L15/04 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/28 ,  G06F17/28 ,  G10L17/08 ,  G10L17/04 ,  G10L17/26 ,  G10L25/12

CPC分类号： G10L17/08 ,  G10L17/04 ,  G10L17/26 ,  G10L25/12

摘要： A state detection device includes: a first model generation unit to generate a first specific speaker model obtained by modeling speech features of a specific speaker in an undepressed state; a second model generation unit to generate a second specific speaker model obtained by modeling speech features of the specific speaker in the depressed state; a likelihood calculation unit to calculate a first likelihood as a likelihood of the first specific speaker model with respect to input voice, and a second likelihood as a likelihood of the second specific speaker model with respect to the input voice; and a state determination unit to determine a state of the speaker of the input voice using the first likelihood and the second likelihood.

摘要翻译： 一种状态检测装置，包括：第一模型生成单元，用于生成通过在未受冲击状态建模特定说话者的语音特征而获得的第一特定说话者模型; 第二模型生成单元，用于生成通过在所述按压状态下建模所述特定说话者的语音特征而获得的第二特定说话者模型; 似然度计算单元，计算作为所述第一特定说话者模型相对于输入语音的可能性的第一似然度，以及作为所述第二特定说话者模型相对于所述输入语音的可能性的第二似然度; 以及状态确定单元，用于使用第一似然和第二似然来确定输入语音的说话者的状态。

公开(公告)号：US08804978B2

公开(公告)日：2014-08-12

申请号：US12965227

申请日：2010-12-10

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa

IPC分类号： H04R1/02 ,  G01S3/808 ,  H04M1/60 ,  H04R3/00 ,  A61F11/06 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H04R1/40

CPC分类号： H04R3/005 ,  G01S3/8083 ,  H04M1/0281 ,  H04M1/6008 ,  H04M2250/12 ,  H04R1/406 ,  H04R2430/01 ,  H04R2460/07 ,  H04R2499/11

摘要： A directivity control apparatus is capable of acquiring tilt information indicating a tilt angle of the directivity control apparatus; acquiring sound source direction information; storing mapping data indicating a relationship between the tilt angle and the direction; determining whether the sound information indicates a target sound; updating the mapping data based on the sound source direction information and the tilt information, if the sound information indicates the target sound; estimating a direction of sound responsive to the tilt information, based on the mapping data if the sound information doesn't indicate a target sound; and adjusting a directivity of a microphone based on the sound source direction information if the sound information indicates the target sound, or adjusting the directivity of the microphone based on the estimated direction if the sound information doesn't indicate the target sound.

摘要翻译： 方向性控制装置能够获取指示方向性控制装置的倾斜角的倾斜信息; 获取声源方向信息; 存储表示倾斜角度与方向的关系的映射数据; 确定所述声音信息是否指示目标声音; 如果所述声音信息指示所述目标声音，则基于所述声源方向信息和所述倾斜信息更新所述映射数据; 如果声音信息不指示目标声音，则基于映射数据估计响应于倾斜信息的声音方向; 以及如果所述声音信息指示所述目标声音，则基于所述声源方向信息来调整麦克风的方向性，或者如果所述声音信息未指示所述目标声音，则基于所述估计方向来调整所述麦克风的方向性。

公开(公告)号：US08768692B2

公开(公告)日：2014-07-01

申请号：US11797409

申请日：2007-05-03

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa

IPC分类号： G10L21/00 ,  G10L21/02 ,  G10L15/00 ,  G10L15/20

CPC分类号： G10L15/20 ,  G10L21/0232

摘要： A speech recognition apparatus predicts, based on the occurrence cycle and duration time of impulse noise that occurs periodically, a segment in which impulse noise occurs, and executes speech recognition processing based on the feature components of the remaining frames excluding a feature component of a frame corresponding to the predicted segment, or the feature components extracted from frames created from sound data excluding a part corresponding to the predicted segment.

摘要翻译： 语音识别装置基于周期性发生的脉冲噪声的发生周期和持续时间来预测发生脉冲噪声的段，并且基于除了帧的特征分量之外的剩余帧的特征分量来执行语音识别处理 或者从除了与预测段对应的部分之外的声音数据创建的帧中提取的特征成分。

公开(公告)号：US09460731B2

公开(公告)日：2016-10-04

申请号：US13185677

申请日：2011-07-19

申请人： Shoji Hayakawa

发明人： Shoji Hayakawa

IPC分类号： G10L21/02 ,  H04B15/00 ,  G10L21/0208 ,  G10L25/06 ,  G10L25/18 ,  G10L21/0216

CPC分类号： G10L21/0208 ,  G10L25/06 ,  G10L25/18 ,  G10L2021/02166

摘要： A noise estimation apparatus includes a correlation calculator configured to calculate a correlation value of a spectrum between a plurality of frames in sound information obtained using one or more microphones, a power calculator configured to calculate a power value indicating a sound level of one target frame among the plurality of frames, an update determiner configured to determine an update degree indicating a degree to which the sound information of the target frame is to be reflected in a noise model stored in a storage, or determine whether or not the noise model is to be updated to another noise model, based on the power value of the target frame and the correlation value, and an updater configured to generate the other noise model based on a determined result, the sound information of the target frame, and the noise model.

摘要翻译： 噪声估计装置包括：相关计算器，被配置为计算使用一个或多个麦克风获得的声音信息中的多个帧之间的频谱的相关值;功率计算器，被配置为计算指示一个目标帧的声级的功率值， 所述多个帧，更新确定器，被配置为确定指示所述目标帧的声音信息将被反映在存储在存储器中的噪声模型中的程度的更新度，或者确定所述噪声模型是否为 基于目标帧的功率值和相关值更新为另一噪声模型，以及更新器，被配置为基于确定的结果，目标帧的声音信息和噪声模型来生成另一噪声模型。