Sound source direction estimation device, sound source direction estimation method, and recording medium therefor

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A sound source direction estimation device includes: a phase difference calculator which calculates, from an acoustic signal obtained by a microphone array, a first phase difference of a pair of microphone units; a similarity calculator which calculates similarities between the calculated first phase difference and second phase differences precalculated for directions and stored in a phase difference database; a peak searcher which searches for a direction for which a highest similarity is calculated by the similarity calculator, and estimates the direction searched out to be a sound source direction; a feature quantity calculator which uses the calculated similarities, the estimated sound source direction, and an acoustic feature quantity obtained from the obtained acoustic signal, to calculate a feature quantity obtained by correcting the acoustic feature quantity; and a speech/non-speech determiner which determines whether the obtained acoustic signal indicates speech, using the feature quantity calculated by the feature quantity calculator.

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  • PANASONIC CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hayashida, Kohhei Kyoto, JP 8 21
Kanamori, Takeo Osaka, JP 45 853

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