US 11,950,062 B1
Direction finding of sound sources
Wai Chung Chu, San Jose, CA (US); and Carlo Murgia, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/709,563.
Int. Cl. H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/21 (2013.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 3/005 (2013.01) [G10L 25/21 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
generating audio data using a microphone array including a first microphone, a second microphone, and a third microphone;
determining, using the audio data, first delay vector data associated with a first sound source, the first delay vector data including a first time delay between receipt, by the first microphone, of audio output by the first sound source and receipt of the audio by the second microphone and a second time delay between receipt of the audio by the first microphone and receipt of the audio by the third microphone;
determining, using the audio data, a first power value corresponding to the first delay vector data;
determining, using stored data associated with at least one position range relative to the microphone array and with at least one of a plurality of data records representing a uniform size position range, that the first delay vector data is associated with a first data record of the plurality of data records, wherein the first data record represents a first position range relative to the microphone array;
determining, using the stored data and the first delay vector data, a first value associated with the first data record, the first value indicating a relative weight of the first delay vector data for the first position range;
determining a first product of the first power value and the first value; and
determining, using the first product, a first average power value associated with the first data record.