US 11,990,151 B2
Particular-sound detector and method, and program
Yuki Yamamoto, Tokyo (JP); Yuji Tokozume, Tokyo (JP); and Toru Chinen, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/415,648
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 12, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/048706
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 17, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/137585, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-240642 (JP), filed on Dec. 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0059120 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G10L 25/51 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2023.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01); H04R 1/04 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC G10L 25/51 (2013.01) [G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G10K 11/17875 (2018.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01); H04R 1/04 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1081 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3026 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A particular-sound detector comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
receive a particular sound on a basis of a plurality of audio signals obtained by collecting sounds by a plurality of microphones provided to a wearable device, wherein
the plurality of the microphones includes first and second microphones that are equidistant at least from a sound source of the particular sound, and a third microphone arranged at a predetermined position different from positions of the first and second microphones, and wherein receiving the particular sound includes processing signals received from the first, second or third microphones to determine whether or not the received signals include signals of the particular sound; and
control switching of a process to be executed, according to a result of detection of the particular sound.