摘要:
A pickup section transduces sounds to audio signals. A zoom control section outputs a zoom position signal corresponding to a zoom position. A directivity control section alters the directivity characteristics under a telescopic operation so as to mainly pick up sounds coming from a frontal direction with an enhancement which is in accordance with the zoom position signal, thereby outputting an R channel audio signal and an L channel audio signal. In accordance with the zoom position signal, a noise suppression section applies a greater degree of suppression to the background noise contained in the respective channel audio signals under the telescopic operation than under a wide-angle operation. As a result, a target sound from a remote location can be picked up with a sufficient enhancement in accordance with the zoom position under the telescopic operation.
摘要:
A signal generating section generates a main signal and a noise reference signal. A determining section determines whether a level ratio is larger than a predetermined value. An adaptive filter section generates a signal indicative of a signal component of a target sound included in the noise reference signal generated by the signal generating section, and learns a filter coefficient only when the determining section determines that the level ratio is larger than the predetermined value. A subtracting section subtracts the signal generated by the adaptive filter section from the noise reference signal. A noise suppressing section suppresses a signal component of noise included in the main signal by using the main signal and the noise reference signal after subtraction by the subtracting section.
摘要:
A howling detection device detects a dominance ratio, which indicates a risk of howling to be occurred when a mixed signal obtained by a sound mixing section for mixing a plurality of sound signals respectively collected by a plurality of microphones is outputted by a speaker, for each of the sound signals. The howling detection device includes a level detecting section for respectively detecting levels of the plurality of sound signals, a word ending detecting section for comparing, in a same time domain, the mixed signal with a signal regarding a sound to be outputted by the speaker as a noise reference signal, and detecting a time period, as a word ending section, during which the mixed signal is inputted after the noise reference signal falls, and a dominance ratio calculating section for extracting only any of the levels corresponding to the word ending section from among the levels, of the plurality of sound signals, detected by the level detecting section, and calculating, as a dominance ratio, a ratio of each of the levels of each of the sound signals to a sum of the levels of the plurality of sound signals.
摘要:
A howling detection device detects a dominance ratio, which indicates a risk of howling to occur when a mixed signal obtained by mixing a plurality of sound signals collected by a plurality of microphones is outputted by a speaker. The howling detection device detects levels of the plurality of sound signals, compares, in a same time domain, the mixed signal with a signal regarding a sound to be outputted by the speaker as a noise reference signal, detects a time period, as a word ending section, during which the mixed signal is inputted after the noise reference signal falls, and calculates a dominance ratio by extracting only a level of the plurality of sound signals corresponding to the word ending section and determining a ratio of each of the extracted levels of each of the sound signals to a sum of the extracted levels of the plurality of sound signals.
摘要:
Howling, which occurs when amplifying a target sound collected by a first microphone through an amplification section and outputting the amplified sound as an intensified sound from a loudspeaker, is suppressed using a first and second acoustic signal. A first power spectrum is produced according to the first acoustic signal output from the first microphone collecting a sound. A second power spectrum is produced according to the second acoustic signal of a sound including at least the intensified sound and not including the target sound. Then, the first acoustic signal is filtered based on the first power spectrum, and the second power spectrum to output only an acoustic signal of the target sound to the amplification section.
摘要:
Howling, which occurs when amplifying a target sound collected by a first microphone through an amplification section and outputting the amplified sound as an intensified sound from a loudspeaker, is suppressed. A first power spectrum is produced according to a first acoustic signal output from the first microphone collecting a sound. A second power spectrum is produced according to a second acoustic signal of a sound including at least the intensified sound and not including the target sound. Then, the first acoustic signal is filtered based on the first power spectrum and the second power spectrum to output only an acoustic signal of the target sound to the amplification section.
摘要:
There is provided a harmonic structure acoustic signal detection device not depending on the level fluctuation of the input signal, having an excellent real time property and noise resistance. The device includes: an FFT unit (200) which performs FFT on an input signal and calculates a power spectrum component for each frame; a harmonic structure extraction unit (201) which leaves only a harmonic structure from the power spectrum component; a voiced feature evaluation unit (210) which evaluates correlation between the frames of harmonic structures extracted by the harmonic structure extraction unit (201), thereby evaluates whether or not the segment is a vowel segment, and extracts the voiced segment; and a speech segment determination unit (205) which determines a speech segment according to the continuity and durability of the output of the voiced feature evaluation unit (210).
摘要:
A low-cost speech recognition apparatus for AV equipment capable of speech recognition with high accuracy while 2-channel sound is being produced from loudspeakers is achieved. A monaural conversion part converts 2-channel signals to be inputted to the loudspeakers into a monaural signal. A single echo canceller is provided with an output from a microphone and an output from the monaural conversion part (monaural signal). The echo canceller estimates an echo of multichannel sound based on the monaural signal, and then eliminates the echo sound from the microphone output. Thus, with only a single echo canceller, speech recognition can be carried out while 2-channel sound is being produced from the loudspeakers. Moreover, unlike the case where two echo cancellers are provided, the present invention can prevent the occurrence of mutual interference between the echo cancellers that leads to deterioration in speech recognition performance.
摘要:
A harmonic structure acoustic signal detection device not depending on the level fluctuation of the input signal including: an FFT unit which performs FFT on an input signal and calculates a power spectrum component for each frame; a harmonic structure extraction unit which leaves only a harmonic structure from the power spectrum component; a voiced feature evaluation unit which evaluates correlation between the frames of harmonic structures extracted by the harmonic structure extraction unit, thereby evaluates whether or not the segment is a vowel segment, and extracts the voiced segment; and a speech segment determination unit which determines a speech segment according to the continuity and durability of the output of the voiced feature evaluation unit.
摘要:
A built-in microphone device for use in an apparatus having a mechanism section generating internal noise inside a housing of the apparatus includes a main microphone for picking up an external sound; a noise reference microphone for picking up the internal noise; an adaptive filter member for generating a control audio signal based on an output signal from the noise reference microphone using a filter coefficient; a signal subtraction section for subtracting the control audio signal generated by the adaptive filter member from an output signal from the main microphone to generate a subtraction result; and a filter coefficient update control section for receiving an operation signal generated at the time of an operation of the mechanism section, and in response to the operation signal, updating the filter coefficient of the adaptive filter member based on the subtraction result generated by the signal subtraction section and an output signal from the noise reference microphone.