US 12,292,923 B2
Information processing apparatus and method, and program
Keiichi Osako, Tokyo (JP); and Yuhki Mitsufuji, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/604,981
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/016361
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/218075, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-086006 (JP), filed on Apr. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0309097 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/632 (2019.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/638 (2019.01); G10L 21/0272 (2013.01); G10L 25/54 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 16/632 (2019.01) [G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06F 16/638 (2019.01); G10L 21/0272 (2013.01); G10L 25/54 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
receive a user selection of a designated section of an input audio signal including sounds of a plurality of sound sources;
receive a user selection of a designated sound source in the designated section of the input audio signal, wherein the designated sound source is selected by the user from a list of candidate sound sources;
perform sound source separation of a separation signal corresponding to the designated sound source from the plurality of sound sources in the designated section of the input audio signal; and
obtain a search result of a sound source signal similar to a signal of the designated sound source, the search result of the sound source signal having been searched for in a sound source database on a basis of the separation signal that has been separated from the designated section of the input audio signal.