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ACOUSTIC RECOGNITION APPARATUS, ACOUSTIC RECOGNITION METHOD, AND ACOUSTIC RECOGNITION PROGRAM

  • US 20090002490A1
  • Filed: 06/27/2008
  • Published: 01/01/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An acoustic recognition apparatus that determines whether or not a pre-stored target acoustic signal of a target sound subject to detection is contained in an entered input acoustic signal, said acoustic recognition apparatus comprising:

  • an acoustic signal analysis part which divides said input acoustic signal into a plurality of frames separated by a unit time including at least one cycle of said target acoustic signal, obtains a frequency spectrum of said frames analyzed for each frequency, and creates an input frequency intensity distribution composed of the plurality of said frames based on said frequency spectrum;

    a target sound storage part which divides said target acoustic signal into a plurality of frames, analyzes said target acoustic signal in said divided frames for each characteristic frequency having a feature of said target acoustic signal, and stores said characteristic frequency having a feature of said target acoustic signal as a target frequency intensity distribution;

    a characteristic frequency extraction part which extracts only a component of a characteristic frequency of said target acoustic signal stored by said target sound storage part from said input frequency intensity distribution created by said acoustic signal analysis part, and creates a characteristic frequency intensity distribution;

    a calculation part which continuously compares said target frequency intensity distribution stored by said target sound storage part with said characteristic frequency intensity distribution created by said characteristic frequency extraction part by shifting said frames, and calculates a difference between said target frequency intensity distribution and said characteristic frequency intensity distribution; and

    a determination part which determines whether or not said target acoustic signal is contained in said input acoustic signal based on the difference calculated by said calculation part.

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