High-speed signal search method, device, and recording medium for the same

• US 20050053355A1
• Filed: 10/22/2004
• Published: 03/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• Inventors: Kashino, Kunio, Murase, Hiroshi, Smith, Gavin
• Granted Patent: US 7,577,334 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/12 Classification; Matching
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/48 Matching video sequences
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/14 for monitoring programmes
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/58 of audio determination or detection of speech characteristics in general G10L25/00; speech recognition in general G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/16 Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems

Abstract

The object of the present invention is to provide a high-speed signal search method, device, and a recording medium for the same that can obtain detection results equivalent to precisely moving a window over the entire region of the input signal even when there is not precise movement of a window over the entire signal. The present invention provides a first step that generates a feature quantity sequence for a pre-recorded reference signal; a second step that sets the input signal window for the input signal that has been input; a third step that generates a feature quantity sequence for the input signal of this input signal window; a fourth step that calculates the input signal similarity value showing the degree of similarity between the feature quantity sequence generated in the first step and the feature quantity sequence generated in the third step; a fifth step that calculates the skip width showing the amount that the input signal can be moved; and a sixth step that determines the position of the input signal window based on the skip width calculated in the fifth step, sets the input signal window to this position, and calculates the input signal similarity value for each position of the input signal window by repeating the third step to the sixth step; and further, determines whether or not the reference signal exists at the position that the input signal window presently shows in the input signal based on the result of comparing the input signal similarity value and the predetermined threshold value.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. A high-speed signal search method characterized in providing:

a first step that generates a feature quantity sequence for a plurality of pre-recorded reference signals;

a second step that generates a feature quantity sequence for the input signal that has been input;

a third step that sets the input signal window for the feature quantity sequence generated in the second step;

a fourth step that calculates an inter-reference signal similarity value that shows the degree of similarity between the feature quantity sequence related to a former reference signal and the feature quantity sequence related to a later reference signal for two reference signals among the plurality of reference signals;

a fifth step that calculates the input signal similarity value showing the degree of similarity between the feature quantity sequence generated in the first step and the feature quantity sequence in the said input signal window for each reference signal among said plurality of reference signals;

a sixth step that calculates a skip width showing the amount that the input signal window can move based on the inter-reference signal similarity value calculated in the fourth step and the input signal similarity value calculated in the fifth step; and

a seventh step that determines the position of the input signal window based on the skip width calculated in the sixth step and sets the input signal window at that position; and

further,

calculates an input signal similarity value for each position of the input signal window by repeating the fifth step to the seventh step; and

determines whether or not the reference signal exists at the position that the input signal window presently shows in the input signal based on the result of comparing the input signal similarity value and the predetermined threshold value.

20. A high-speed signal search method according to claim 19 characterized in providing:

a pre-check step which finds in advance the similarity value between an input signal and a reference signal for a plurality of locations on said input signal;

pre-check similarity value statistics step which find the mean and the standard deviation of this similarity value for the plurality of similarity values obtained in said pre-check step;

a threshold value determination step which determines said threshold value based on the mean and standard deviation obtained in said pre-check similarity value statistics step.

21. A high-speed signal search method according to claim 19 characterized in said input signal similarity value being the intersection similarity value.

22. A high-speed signal search method according to claim 19 characterized in said input signal window having the same time length as said reference signal in the direction of the time axis.

23. A high-speed signal search method according to claim 19 characterized in said skip width being calculated by

24. A high-speed signal search method according to claim 19 characterized in said reference signal and said input signal being an audio signal.

25. A high-speed signal search method characterized in providing:

a first step that generates a feature quantity sequence for a plurality of pre-recorded reference signals;

a second step that produces histograms for the feature quantity sequences generated in the first step;

a third step that generates a feature quantity sequence for an input signal that has been input;

a fourth step that sets the input signal window for the feature quantity sequence generated in the third step;

a fifth step that produces histograms for the feature quantity sequences of the input signal window;

a sixth step that calculates an inter-reference signal similarity value showing the degree of similarity between the histogram related to a former reference signal and the histogram related to a later reference signal for two reference signals among the plurality of reference signals;

a seventh step that calculates the input signal similarity value showing the degree of similarity between the histograms generated in the second step and the histograms generated in the fifth step for each reference signal among the plurality of reference signals;

an eighth step that calculates a skip width showing the amount that the input signal window can move based on the inter-reference signal similarity value calculated in the sixth step and the input signal similarity value calculated in the seventh step; and

a ninth step which determines the position of the input signal window based on the skip width calculated in the eighth step and sets the input signal window to this position; and

further

calculates the input signal similarity value based on each position of the input signal window by repeating the fifth step to the ninth step; and

determines whether or not the reference signal exists at the position that the input signal window presently shows in the input signal based on the result of comparing the input signal similarity value and the predetermined threshold value.

26. A high-speed signal search method according to claim 25 characterized in:

said feature quantity sequence being a sequence of zero-crossing feature quantities of the reference signal and the input signal, and its integral value; and

said histogram being produced by partitioning the range of value that said zero-crossing number and its integral value can take into a plurality of bins, and calculates the feature quantity sequence corresponding to each of said bins based on said zero-crossing number and its integral value.

27. A high-speed signal search method according to claim 25 characterized in:

said feature quantity sequence is a sequence of feature vectors having a plurality of frequency band components as elements; and

said histogram being produced by partitioning the range of values that each of the elements of said feature vector can take into a plurality of bins, and calculating the feature quantity sequence corresponding to each of said bins based on the value of said elements.

28-39. -39. (canceled)