SOUND SOURCE PROBING APPARATUS, SOUND SOURCE PROBING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR

• Main Authors: KANAMORI, Takeo, HAYASHIDA, Kohhei, YOSHIKUNI, Shintaro
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 15.04.2020
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TESTING

A sound source probing apparatus, including storage and processing circuitry, is provided that probes a direction of a sound source. The processing circuitry performs operations including determining a first correlation matrix that is a correlation matrix of acoustic signals acquired as observation signals by a microphone array including two or more microphones disposed apart from each other. The operations also include determining, by learning, weights such that a linear sum of a plurality of second correlation matrices multiplied by the respective weights is equal to the first correlation matrix where the plurality of second correlation matrices are correlation matrices, which are determined for respective directions determined based on an array arrangement of the microphone array and which are stored in advance in the storage. The operations further include determining, using the determined weights, a spatial spectrum of the observation signal indicating sound pressure intensities in the respective directions.