Diagnostic apparatus, diagnostic system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

• US 9,992,355 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2016
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Udaka, Tsutomu, Ogasawara, Fumihiko, Kouno, Katsuyuki, Ito, Atsushi, Mitsuhashi, Tomoyuki, Miyamori, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Sniezek, Andrew L
• Application Number:
  US15/207,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20170223196A1
• Time in Patent Office: 693 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/18 the extracted parameters being spectral information of each sub-band
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/48 specially adapted for particular use
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00018 Scanning arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00037 Detecting, i.e. determining the occurrence of a predetermined state H04N1/00031 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/08 Mouthpieces; Microphones; Attachments therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2227/003 Digital PA systems using, e.g. LAN or internet
• 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 27/00 Public address systems circuits for preventing acoustic reaction H04R3/02; circuits for distributing signals to loudspeakers H04R3/12; monitoring or testing arrangements for public address systems H04R29/007; amplifiers H03F
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/00 Circuits for transducers , loudspeakers or microphones

Abstract

A diagnostic apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires sound information; a first analysis unit that performs a frequency analysis of the sound information and generates frequency analysis result data representing a temporal change in an intensity distribution for each frequency; a specifying unit that specifies a frequency of an abnormal sound in the frequency analysis result data; a second analysis unit that analyzes a frequency component of the specified frequency of the abnormal sound; and an extracting unit that extracts period information of the abnormal sound from an analysis result acquired by the second analysis unit.

Claims

1. A diagnostic apparatus comprising:

at least one processor configured to execute;

acquiring sound information from a target apparatus;

performing a frequency analysis of the sound information and generating frequency analysis result data representing a temporal change in an intensity distribution for each frequency;

specifying a frequency of an abnormal sound in the frequency analysis result data;

analyzing a frequency component of the specified frequency of the abnormal sound; and

extracting period information of the abnormal sound from an analysis result acquired by the analyzing the frequency component.

2. The diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the specifying specifies the frequency of the abnormal sound by calculating a total sum of sound intensities in a time-axis direction for each frequency in the frequency analysis result data and detecting a maximum value of the total sum of sound intensities for each frequency.

3. The diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the specifying, for an area of frequencies set in advance, even in a case where a maximum value is detected, does not specify a frequency of the maximum value as the frequency of the abnormal sound.

4. The diagnostic apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the area of frequencies set in advance can be set for each type of apparatus.

5. The diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein, in a case where a plurality of frequencies of abnormal sounds are specified by the specifying, and a plurality of abnormal sound periods are detected through an analysis of frequency components of the plurality of the specified frequencies of abnormal sounds, the extracting extracts a period of a frequency for which a value of the calculated total sum of sound intensities for each frequency is largest as period information of an abnormal sound among periods of the plurality of frequencies of the abnormal sounds.

6. The diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein, in a case where a plurality of frequencies of abnormal sounds are specified by the specifying, and a plurality of abnormal sound periods are detected through an analysis of frequency components of the plurality of the specified frequencies of abnormal sounds, the extracting extracts a period of a frequency for which a difference between a value of the calculated total sum of sound intensities for each frequency and a value of the total sum of sound intensities for an adjacent different frequency is largest as period information of an abnormal sound from among periods of the plurality of the frequencies of the abnormal sounds.

7. The diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein, in a case where a plurality of frequencies of abnormal sounds are specified by the specifying, and a plurality of abnormal sound periods are detected through an analysis of frequency components of the plurality of the specified frequencies of abnormal sounds, the extracting extracts a shortest period as period information of an abnormal sound from among periods of the plurality of the frequencies of the abnormal sounds.

8. The diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the specifying unit calculates a total sum of sound intensities in a time-axis direction for each frequency in the frequency analysis result data, detects a maximum value of the calculated total sum of sound intensities for each frequency, and specifies a frequency for which a difference between the maximum value and a value of the total sum of sound intensities for an adjacent different frequency is a value set in advance or more as the frequency of the abnormal sound.

9. The diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where the specifying cannot specify a frequency of an abnormal sound, the analyzing analyzes one or a plurality of frequency components set in advance.

10. The diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication unit that communicates with an external device;

a transmission unit that transmits information of the period and the frequency of the sound extracted by the extracting to the external device through the communication unit; and

a reception unit that receives data of a frequency analysis result corresponding to the generated frequency analysis result data from an external device through the communication unit,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to control display of the generated frequency analysis result and the frequency analysis result received by the reception unit.

11. A diagnostic apparatus comprising:

at least one processor configured to execute;

acquiring sound information from a target apparatus;

performing a frequency analysis of the sound information and generating frequency analysis result data representing a temporal change in an intensity distribution for each frequency;

specifying frequencies of abnormal sounds in the frequency analysis result data;

control displaying of the specified frequencies of the abnormal sounds;

analyzing a frequency component of a frequency selected from among the specified frequencies of the abnormal sounds; and

extracting period information of the abnormal sound from an analysis result acquired by the analyzing the frequency component.

12. A diagnostic system comprising:

a diagnostic apparatus; and

a server apparatus,

the diagnostic apparatus including;

at least one processor configured to execute;

acquiring sound information from a target apparatus;

performing a frequency analysis of the sound information and generating frequency analysis result data representing a temporal change in an intensity distribution for each frequency;

specifying a frequency of an abnormal sound in the frequency analysis result data;

analyzing a frequency component of the specified frequency of the abnormal sound;

extracting period information of the abnormal sound from an analysis result acquired by the analyzing the frequency component;

a communication unit that communicates with the server apparatus;

a first transmission unit that transmits information of the period and the frequency of the sound extracted by the extracting to the server apparatus through the communication unit; and

a reception unit that receives data of a frequency analysis result corresponding to the generated frequency analysis result data from the server apparatus through the communication unit,

the server apparatus including;

a storage unit that stores data of a plurality of frequency analysis results acquired by performing a frequency analysis of sound information of an abnormal sound; and

at least one processor configured to execute a second transmission unit that, in a case where the information of the period and the frequency of the sound is received from the diagnostic apparatus, selects data coinciding with the received information of the period and the frequency of the sound from among the data of the plurality of frequency analysis results stored in the storage unit, and transmits the selected data to the diagnostic apparatus.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a diagnostic process, the diagnostic process comprising:

acquiring sound information from a target apparatus;

performing a frequency analysis of the sound information and generating frequency analysis result data representing a temporal change in an intensity distribution for each frequency;

specifying a frequency of an abnormal sound in the frequency analysis result data;

analyzing a frequency component of the specified frequency of the abnormal sound; and

extracting period information of the frequency component from an analysis result acquired in the analyzing of the frequency component.