Sound processing device, sound processing method, and program

• US 9,485,572 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2014
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Endo, Kaori, Tsuchinaga, Yoshiteru
• Primary Examiner(s): Gay, Sonia
• Application Number:
  US14/199,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20140185818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 971 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2021/02082 the noise being echo, reverberation of the speech
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2021/02166 Microphone arrays; Beamforming
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/0208 Noise filtering
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/11 Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/002 Damping circuit arrangements for transducers, e.g. motional feedback circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/005 for combining the signals of two or more microphones specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/407
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/02 for preventing acoustic reaction , i.e. acoustic oscillatory feedback specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/453

Abstract

A sound processing device includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate a suppression gain of noise by using respective input signals input from a plurality of microphones; an integration unit configured to obtain an integration gain by using a suppression gain of an acoustic echo and the suppression gain of the noise; an application unit configured to apply the integration gain to one input signal among the plurality of input signals; and a second calculation unit configured to calculate the suppression gain of the acoustic echo by using signals to which the integration gain is applied, output signals that are output to a replay device, and the one input signal.

Claims

1. A sound processing device comprising:

a hardware controller;

a memory storing a program that, when executed by the hardware controller, causes the sound processing device to;

calculate a suppression gain of noise by using respective input signals input from a plurality of microphones;

obtain an integration gain by using a suppression gain of an acoustic echo and the suppression gain of the noise;

apply the integration gain to one input signal among the plurality of input signals;

estimate a spectrum of components of the acoustic echo by using said one input signal to which the integration gain is applied, an output signal that is output to a replay device, and said one input signal before having the integration gain applied thereto; and

calculate the suppression gain of the acoustic echo by comparing the estimated spectrum of the components of the acoustic echo and a spectrum of said one input signal before having the integration gain applied thereto;

a baseband unit configured to modulate said one input signal to which the integration gain is applied into a transmission signal;

a radio unit configured to convert the transmission signal to a radio signal; and

an antenna configured to transmit the radio signal.

2. The sound processing device according to claim 1, wherein the sound processing device is further caused to

select said one input signal from the plurality of input signals, based on an output value of an illumination intensity sensor or a sound volume of the respective input signals.

3. The sound processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the sound processing device is further caused to set, as the integrated gain, a lower one of the suppression gain of the acoustic echo and the suppression gain of the noise.

4. The sound processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the sound processing device is further caused to set, as the integrated gain, a higher one of the suppression gain of the acoustic echo and the suppression gain of the noise.

5. The sound processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the sound processing device is further caused to set, as the integrated gain, an average value of the suppression gain of the acoustic echo and the suppression gain of the noise.

6. The sound processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the sound processing device is further caused to set, as the integrated gain, a weighted average value of the suppression gain of the acoustic echo and the suppression gain of the noise.

7. A sound processing method executed by a computer, comprising:

calculating a suppression gain of noise by using respective input signals input from a plurality of microphones;

obtaining an integration gain by using a suppression gain of an acoustic echo and the suppression gain of the noise;

applying the integration gain to one input signal among the plurality of input signals;

estimating a spectrum of components of the acoustic echo by using said one input signal to which the integration gain is applied, an output signal that is output to a replay device, and said one input signal before having the integration gain applied thereto;

calculating the suppression gain of the acoustic echo by comparing the estimated spectrum of the components of the acoustic echo and a spectrum of said one input signal before having the integration gain applied thereto;

modulating said one input signal to which the integration gain is applied into a transmission signal;

converting the transmission signal to a radio signal; and

transmitting the radio signal.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer, having a baseband unit which modulates an input signal into a transmission signal, a radio unit which converts the transmission signal to a radio signal, and an antenna which transmits the radio signal, to execute a process comprising:

calculating a suppression gain of noise by using respective input signals input from a plurality of microphones;

obtaining an integration gain by using a suppression gain of an acoustic echo and the suppression gain of the noise;

applying the integration gain to one input signal among the plurality of input signals, and outputting said one input signal to which the integration gain is applied to the baseband unit;

estimating a spectrum of components of the acoustic echo by using said one input signal to which the integration gain is applied, an output signal that is output to a replay device, and said one input signal before having the integration gain applied thereto; and

calculating the suppression gain of the acoustic echo by comparing the estimated spectrum of the components of the acoustic echo and a spectrum of said one input signal before having the integration gain applied thereto.