161 |
SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, AND SOUND PROCESSING PROGRAM |
US14454095 |
2014-08-07 |
US20150063069A1 |
2015-03-05 |
Kazuhiro NAKADAI; Keisuke NAKAMURA; Lana SINAPAYEN; Michita IMAI |
A sound processing device includes a sound collection unit configured to record a sound signal, a tilt information acquisition unit configured to acquire tilt information on a tilt of the sound processing device, an azimuth estimation unit configured to estimate azimuths of a sound source in a plane in which the sound collection unit is arranged based on the sound signals which are recorded by the sound collection unit at least at two times; and an elevation angle estimation unit configured to estimate an elevation angle of the sound source with respect to the plane in which the sound collection unit is arranged based on the tilt information acquired by the tilt information acquisition unit and the azimuths estimated by the azimuth estimation unit at least at two times. |
162 |
DEVICE FOR DETECTING EVENTS |
US13992701 |
2011-12-09 |
US20140321243A1 |
2014-10-30 |
Thierry Guignard; Sébastien Lestieux |
A multi-sensor device for detecting events, comprises first acquisition means comprising at least a first sensor, operating in a first frequency band and second acquisition means comprising at least a second sensor, operating in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, means for processing raw data originating from the acquisition means and comprising means for the detection of events in the raw data and for determining the geographic location of said events, means for transmitting an alert if an event is detected by the processing means, means for storing the raw data, said storage means being suitable for restoring the stored raw data in a synchronized manner, and monitoring means which, following detection of an event in the raw data of one of said acquisition means, enables said processing means to be adapted to detect events in said stored raw data originating from said other acquisition means. |
163 |
Sound Field Analysis System |
US14187616 |
2014-02-24 |
US20140241528A1 |
2014-08-28 |
David Gunawan; Dong Shi; Glenn N. Dickins |
In one embodiment, a sound field is mapped by extracting spatial angle information, diffusivity information, and optionally, sound level information. The extracted information is mapped for representation in the form of a Riemann sphere, wherein spatial angle varies longitudinally, diffusivity varies latitudinally, and level varies radially along the sphere. A more generalized mapping employs mapping the spatial angle and diffusivity information onto a representative region exhibiting variations in direction of arrival that correspond to the extracted spatial information and variations in distance that correspond to the extracted diffusivity information. |
164 |
COMPRESSIVE BEAMFORMING |
US13915670 |
2013-06-12 |
US20130335270A1 |
2013-12-19 |
Geoffrey F. Edelmann; Charles F. Gaumond |
A method of antenna array processing. Digitized time-series data from a plurality of antenna elements are divided into a plurality of time windows. A Fourier Transform is performed on a time window of the plurality of time windows for each antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements to generate a plurality of frequency domain vectors. The plurality of antenna elements is divided into a plurality of largest aperture sub-arrays. The frequency domain vectors are compressive beamformed for the each sub-array to generate a plurality of bearing estimates corresponding to the plurality of sub-arrays. The plurality of bearing estimates from the plurality of sub-arrays are sparsely combined to generate a plurality of frequency-specific bearing estimates. The plurality of frequency-specific bearing estimates are incoherently averaged over a range of frequencies to generate a bearing for a bearing-timing record. A plurality of bearings for the bearing-timing record is generated. |
165 |
Localisation in a bilateral hearing device system |
US13263407 |
2009-04-07 |
US08503704B2 |
2013-08-06 |
Tom Francart; Jan Wouters; Bas Van Dijk |
Disclosed is a method and system for allowing a recipient of a hearing aid device, and in one aspect, a bilateral hearing aid system, to locate the source of a sound signal about the recipient. The method uses localization cues in the sound signal and modifies these to provide useable localization cues to generate a stimulating signal for application to the recipient. In one example, a detected localization cue such as an interaural level difference (ILD) is transposed to a lower frequency. |
166 |
Acoustic Localization of a Speaker |
US13478941 |
2012-05-23 |
US20120294118A1 |
2012-11-22 |
Tim Haulick; Gerhard Uwe Schmidt; Markus Buck; Tobias Wolff |
A system locates a speaker in a room containing a loudspeaker and a microphone array. The loudspeaker transmits a sound that is partly reflected by a speaker. The microphone array detects the reflected sound and converts the sound into a microphone array, the speaker's distance from the microphone array, or both, based on the characteristics of the microphone signals. |
167 |
System and method for discriminating a subsurface target in the water from a surface target in the water |
US12628483 |
2009-12-01 |
US08159901B2 |
2012-04-17 |
Arnold W. Novick |
A computer-implemented method of discriminating a surface from a subsurface sound-generating target in the water includes identifying an arrival angle of sound generated by the sound-generating target and received by a sound receiver at a known depth in the water. The method also includes generating a probability density function about the measured arrival angle having a corresponding plurality sound arrival angles and mapping the probability density function about the measured arrival angle to a probability density function of vertex depths. The method also includes calculating a probability that the depth of the sound-generating target is greater than a threshold depth by integrating the probability density function of vertex depth. A computer readable storage medium has instructions for implementing the above method and a system has modules for implementing the above method. |
168 |
System and method for estimating location of projectile source or shooter location |
US12468620 |
2009-05-19 |
US08149156B1 |
2012-04-03 |
Rustin W. Allred; Robert R. Bless |
A system for estimating a location of the source of a projectile includes a radar system for transmitting a wave and detecting and providing an indication of a wave reflection from the projectile, an acoustic detection system for detecting and providing an indication of at least one sound associated with the projectile, and circuitry for estimating the location in response to the indication of a wave reflection and the indication of at least one sound. |
169 |
SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION ESTIMATING DEVICE, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION CONTROL METHOD |
US12674361 |
2007-08-20 |
US20110268285A1 |
2011-11-03 |
Yoshiki Ohta; Kensaku Obata |
Sound pressure acquisition element integrate by time and convert into logarithms a plurality of inputted sound signals to acquire each sound pressure corresponding to the plurality of sound signals. Normalizing element normalizes each sound pressure acquired by the sound pressure acquisition element. Linear sum calculating element calculates a linear sum of each sound pressure normalized by the normalizing element using a plurality of parameters which differ for each frequency range of the sound signals. |
170 |
Adaptive array control device, method and program, and adaptive array processing device, method and program using the same |
US12297871 |
2007-04-12 |
US08014230B2 |
2011-09-06 |
Akihiko Sugiyama |
To provide an adaptive array control device, method, and program adapted to be able to output an enhanced target signal by precisely carrying out a coefficient update control of a plurality of signals input from a group of sensors arranged in an array, the coefficient update control being less influenced by the frequency characteristics of the signals and directions of a target signal and interference.The invention includes: a gain control section 900 having an analyzing section 903 which analyzes characteristics of a target signal and a correcting section 905 which corrects a target signal power estimated value in response to the analysis result; and blocking matrix circuits 310 and 320 which receive and process signals from a plurality of sensors having different intervals. |
171 |
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING A SUBSURFACE TARGET IN THE WATER FROM A SURFACE TARGET IN THE WATER |
US12628483 |
2009-12-01 |
US20110128820A1 |
2011-06-02 |
Arnold W. Novick |
A computer-implemented method of discriminating a surface from a subsurface sound-generating target in the water includes identifying an arrival angle of sound generated by the sound-generating target and received by a sound receiver at a known depth in the water. The method also includes generating a probability density function about the measured arrival angle having a corresponding plurality sound arrival angles and mapping the probability density function about the measured arrival angle to a probability density function of vertex depths. The method also includes calculating a probability that the depth of the sound-generating target is greater than a threshold depth by integrating the probability density function of vertex depth. A computer readable storage medium has instructions for implementing the above method and a system has modules for implementing the above method. |
172 |
VEHICLE-IN-BLIND-SPOT DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF |
US12774060 |
2010-05-05 |
US20100214086A1 |
2010-08-26 |
Shinichi YOSHIZAWA; Yoshihisa Nakatoh |
Provided is a vehicle-in-blind-spot detecting apparatus which can detect a vehicle positioned in a blind spot by simply mounting the apparatus on an operator's vehicle. The vehicle-in-blind-spot includes: a presenting unit which presents information; at least one microphone which detects a sound a vehicle sound extracting unit which extracts a vehicle sound from the sound detected by the microphone; a sound source direction detecting unit which detects a sound source direction of the vehicle sound extracted by the vehicle sound extracting unit; and a vehicle-in-blind-spot determining unit which causes the presenting unit to present the information indicating that a vehicle is found in a blind spot in the case where the sound source direction of the vehicle sound detected by the sound source direction detecting unit is a first direction representing above the vehicle-in-blind-spot detecting apparatus with respect to a ground. |
173 |
AUDIO COMPASS FOR MOTION TRACKING |
US11872450 |
2007-10-15 |
US20090097359A1 |
2009-04-16 |
Jamal Haque; Andrew W. Guyette; Edward R. Prado; Keith A. Souders |
A method for tracking motion using an audio compass is disclosed. The method comprises receiving motion sensor data indicating seismic activity recorded by at least two seismic sensors, and converting the received motion sensor data into audio signals for interpretation at an audio compass. The method uses the audio compass to determine a current distance to the seismic activity based on an interpreted signal intensity of the audio signals. The method further uses the audio compass to identify a current position of the audio compass relative to the seismic activity. |
174 |
System for detecting, tracking, and reconstructing signals in spectrally competitive environments |
US11595276 |
2006-11-09 |
US07423934B1 |
2008-09-09 |
Charles A. Uzes |
A system applicable to acoustic, seismic, electromagnetic, hydrodynamic, and shock waves utilizing a map between signal time series and signal vectors defining the mathematical wave field model characterizing the signal's wave field. This map is developed from wave models relating field values to those on surfaces and corresponding uniqueness theorems. The system should allow for improved resolving power in bearing and elevation for discrimination of sources; detection and direction finding for signals below the average background level; detection based upon resolving power and signal vector characteristics rather than signal to noise ratio; reconstruction of signals of resolved sources for their transmitted information content; and multiple modes of operation. Adaptive incorporation of known undesired signals into the noise background and/or treatment of asymmetric background noise fields is permitted through use of a noise metric-based map yielding signal direction in the presence of diffraction effects. |
175 |
Subarray matching beamformer apparatus and method |
US10182664 |
2001-01-08 |
US07228236B2 |
2007-06-05 |
Thomas J. Barnard; Manuel Francisco Fernandez |
A method of beam forming an array, by computer processing a cross covariance, of the reference sub array seismic signal data signal, by having an unknown shape comprising receiving acoustic signals, via the array, and computing the data and segmenting the array into an initial segment of a known shape and at least a second segment, and beam forming the initial segment to provide a beam formed output, and using the beam formed output to obtain weights, for the second segment of the array. |
176 |
Target track crossing prediction/detection |
US10214551 |
2002-08-08 |
US06819230B2 |
2004-11-16 |
William A. Struzinski |
A method and system are provided for predicting and detecting the crossing of two target tracks in a bearing versus time coordinate frame. The method/system use a series of periodic bearing measurements of the two target tracks to determine a bearing rate and a projected intercept with a bearing axis of the bearing versus time coordinate frame. A crossing time tc for the two target tracks is determined using the tracks' bearing rates and projected intercepts. A prediction that the two target tracks will cross results if a first inequality is satisfied while a detection that the two target tracks have crossed results if a second inequality is satisfied. |
177 |
Target track crossing prediction/detection |
US10214551 |
2002-08-08 |
US20040030500A1 |
2004-02-12 |
William
A.
Struzinski |
A method and system are provided for predicting and detecting the crossing of two target tracks in a bearing versus time coordinate frame. The method/system use a series of periodic bearing measurements of the two target tracks to determine a bearing rate and a projected intercept with a bearing axis of the bearing versus time coordinate frame. A crossing time tc for the two target tracks is determined using the tracks' bearing rates and projected intercepts. A prediction that the two target tracks will cross results if a first inequality is satisfied while a detection that the two target tracks have crossed results if a second inequality is satisfied. |
178 |
System and method for processing correlated contacts |
US09973648 |
2001-10-09 |
US06545639B1 |
2003-04-08 |
Thomas J. Barnard |
A system and process for maintaining correlated contacts (e.g., sonar/radar contacts) utilizes diagonal averaging. A covariance matrix is formed from signals received by an array of sensors. These sensors may be acoustic and/or electromagnetic sensors. The covariance matrix is replaced with Toeplitz matrix. The Toeplitz matrix is a Toeplitz matrix that most closely matches the covariance matrix in the least squares sense. The Toeplitz matrix is used to calculate weight vectors for the adaptively formed response signals. |
179 |
Bias estimating method for a target tracking system |
US09530666 |
2000-05-03 |
US06359586B1 |
2002-03-19 |
Egils Sviestins |
The present invention is in general related to automatic alignment in multi-sensor target tracking. The process of the invention repeatedly generates estimates for sensor bias errors (b) by minimising a function, given on one hand by the magnitude of the discrepancy between measurements (M) and a measuring model, where the measuring model is a function of the unknown target location and unknown bias parameters, and on the other by the bias parameters and their predetermined statistical distributions (15). In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the minimizing step is performed by linearising components of the function around an approximate target position (normally obtained from the tracker (10)) and around nominal (typically zero) bias errors, and the function is subsequently minimized with respect to target positions as well as to the bias parameters (b). In addition, possible time dependence of the bias parameters are modelled by the incorporation of process noise. |
180 |
Method and system for real-time information analysis of textual material |
US717757 |
1996-09-23 |
US5761685A |
1998-06-02 |
William H. Hutson |
A multi-dimensional processing and display system that is used with textual data to provide a system by which large volumes of such textual data may be efficiently sorted and searched. Textual data that is input to the multi-dimensional processing and display system is from one or more documents that are reformatted and translated into one or more numeric matrices. The matrices are modified to enhance and/or suppress certain words, phrases, subjects, etc. Thereafter, a single two-dimensional data is formed by concatenating the numeric matrices. The multi-dimensional processing and display system creates and maintains a historical database which is also concatenated in the two-dimensional matrix. Once the textual data is in the form of a two-dimensional matrix, the data can be analyzed efficiently, for example, using singular value decomposition (SVD). In doing so, the two-dimensional concatenated matrix is decomposed to obtain a compressed form of the numeric matrix. Certain data elements in the two-dimensional matrix may be enhanced, while certain other data elements may be suppressed. After data enhancement and/or suppression, the two-dimensional matrix is partitioned and rearranged to form an enhanced multi-dimensional matrix. All or portions of the enhanced multi-dimensional matrix are then visually displayed. Lexical, semantic, and/ or textual constructs of interest may be displayed as opaque objects within a three-dimensional transparent cube, enabling a user to review many documents quickly and easily. |