US 11,716,970 B2
Method for monitoring a livestock facility and/or livestock animals in a livestock facility using improved sound processing techniques
Dries Berckmans, Leuven (BE); and Wim Buyens, Kapellen (BE)
Assigned to SoundTalks NV, Leuven (BE)
Appl. No. 17/295,812
Filed by SoundTalks NV, Leuven (BE)
PCT Filed Dec. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/085897
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/127449, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018/5899 (BE), filed on Dec. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0007618 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. A01K 29/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01)
CPC A01K 29/005 (2013.01) [G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for monitoring a livestock facility and/or livestock animals in a livestock facility, the method comprising the steps of:
a. receiving audio signals comprising sounds generated in a livestock facility from two or more microphones; and
b. localizing sounds of interest in the audio signals, the sounds of interest being both sounds generated by livestock animals and sounds generated by noise sources, wherein the step of localizing further comprises the steps of:
i. utilizing models of noise sources in an airspace based on localization in noise reduction algorithms to filter off noise sources from the audio signal, resulting in a filtered audio signal; and
ii. analysing the filtered audio signal.