Audio signal processing device, audio signal processing method, and audio signal processing program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9865278-B2
Application number	US-201615057624-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2016
Priority date	Mar 10, 2015
Publication date	Jan 9, 2018
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018

Abstract

A frequency domain converter is configured to create a plurality of pieces of frequency domain information by individually converting a plurality of input audio signals, which is acquired at different positions, into frequency domain information. A relative value calculator is configured to calculate a relative value of time frequency components of at least one set of frequency domain information among the plurality of pieces of frequency domain information. A signal determiner is configured to determine whether or not each of the input audio signals includes an audio signal component, which is emitted from a predetermined position, based on whether or not the relative value is included in a range specified and based on a relative threshold value stored in a memory in advance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An audio signal processing device comprising:
a frequency domain converter configured to create a pair of pieces of frequency domain information by individually converting a pair of input audio signals, which are acquired by a pair of sensors placed at different positions for each of the sensors, into the frequency domain information;
a relative value calculator configured to calculate a plurality of relative values of time frequency components based on the pair of pieces of frequency domain information;
a signal determiner configured to determine whether or not each of the input audio signals includes an audio signal component, which is emitted from a predetermined position in a vehicle cabin, based on whether or not the plurality of relative values are included in a range specified and based on a relative threshold value stored in a memory in advance; and
a relative threshold value calculator configured to calculate the relative threshold value based on the plurality of relative values created from the input audio signals including the audio signal components emitted from the predetermined position,
wherein the relative threshold value calculator is configured to create a histogram of the plurality of the relative values, to obtain a distribution range of peaks in which appearance frequencies reach a predetermined frequency or more in the histogram, to specify, as the relative values, a plurality of relative values located on at least a part of an outer periphery of the distribution range, and to store the specified relative values in the memory.

2. The audio signal processing device according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where a plurality of the distribution ranges are created, the relative threshold value calculator is configured to specify, as the relative threshold values, a plurality of relative values located on at least a part of an outer periphery of the distribution range including a maximum value of the appearance frequencies, and to store the specified relative values.

3. The audio signal processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the audio signal processing device is configured to calculate amplitude values or energy of the input audio signals, and to create the histogram of the relative values by using the amplitude values or the energy.

4. The audio signal processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the relative value calculator is configured to calculate, as the relative values, at least one of an amplitude relative value indicating a ratio of amplitude components of the time frequency components and a phase relative value indicating a difference between phase components of the time frequency components.

5. An audio signal processing method comprising:
creating a pair of pieces of frequency domain information by individually converting a pair of input audio signals, which are acquired by a pair of sensors placed at different positions for each of the sensors, into the frequency domain information;
calculating a plurality of relative values of time frequency components of based on the pair of pieces of frequency domain information;
determining whether or not each of the input audio signals includes an audio signal component, which is emitted from a predetermined position in a vehicle cabin, based on whether or not the plurality of relative values are included in a range specified and based on a relative threshold value stored in a memory in advance;
calculating the relative threshold value based on the relative values created from the input audio signals including the audio signal components emitted from the predetermined position;
creating a histogram of the plurality of the relative values;
obtaining a distribution range of peaks in which appearance frequencies reach a predetermined frequency or more, specifying, as the relative values, a plurality of relative values located on at least a part of an outer periphery of the distribution range; and
storing the specified relative values in the memory.

6. An audio signal processing program stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for causing a computer to perform:
frequency domain conversion processing for creating a pair of pieces of frequency domain information by individually converting a pair of input audio signals, which are acquired by a pair of sensors placed at different positions for each of the sensors, into the frequency domain information;
relative value calculation processing for calculating a plurality of relative values of time frequency components based on the pair of pieces of frequency domain information;
signal determination processing for determining whether or not each of the input audio signals includes an audio signal component, which is emitted from a predetermined position in a vehicle cabin, based on whether or not the plurality of relative values are included in a range specified based on a relative threshold value stored in a memory in advance;
relative threshold value calculating processing for calculating the relative threshold value based on the relative values created from the input audio signals including the audio signal components emitted from the predetermined position;
histogram creating processing for creating a histogram of the plurality of the relative values;
distribution range obtaining processing for obtaining a distribution range of peaks in which appearance frequencies reach a predetermined frequency or more in the histogram specifying processing for specifying, as the relative values, a plurality of relative values located on at least a part of an outer periphery of the distribution range and
storing processing for storing the specified relative values in the memory.

Assignees

• Jvc Kenwood Corp

Inventors

• Sugano Masato

Classifications

• G10L25/84

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• H04B3/234

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• H04M9/08

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• G10L21/0232 Primary

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