Patents by Inventor Hideki Banno
Hideki Banno has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9299334Abstract: A sound source detecting system that detects a predetermined sound source on the basis of sounds collected by sound collectors includes: a noise extracting unit that extracts a noise from signals of the collected sounds; and a noise suppressing unit that suppresses a signal component of the noise extracted by the noise extracting unit from the signals of the collected sounds. The sound source detecting unit detects a location of the predetermined sound source, such as an approaching vehicle, using information about the sounds having the signals of which the noise is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEIJO UNIVERSITYInventors: Jun Sato, Ryuji Funayama, Tomoya Takatani, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 9103903Abstract: An approaching vehicle detecting system that detects an approaching vehicle on the basis of sounds collected by a plurality of sound collectors mounted on a host vehicle determines whether a transverse moving direction of a sound source detected by the plurality of sound collectors is a direction approaching the host vehicle, determines whether a vertical position of the sound source detected using the plurality of sound collectors is in the same plane as that of the host vehicle, and detects that sound source as the approaching vehicle when it is determined that the transverse moving direction of the sound source is the direction approaching the host vehicle and the vertical position of the sound source is in the same plane as that of the host vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEIJO UNIVERSITYInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Hisashi Satonaka, Keiichi Yamada, Hideki Banno, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Akira Ogawa
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Patent number: 9091751Abstract: A sound source detection system for detecting a sound source (e.g., running sound of a vehicle) based on sound collected by microphones extracts characteristic amounts from the sound collected by the microphones, sets a plurality of classes according to the position of the sound source by a multi-class pattern recognition method (e.g., multi-class SVM) using the characteristic amounts, extracts characteristic amounts from sound collected by the microphones for detection of a sound source, determines a class to which the extracted characteristic amounts belong, from the preset plurality of classes, and estimates the sound source based on the class.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEIJO UNIVERSITYInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20140241126Abstract: A sound source detection system for detecting a sound source (e.g., running sound of a vehicle) based on sound collected by microphones extracts characteristic amounts from the sound collected by the microphones, sets a plurality of classes according to the position of the sound source by a multi-class pattern recognition method (e.g., multi-class SVM) using the characteristic amounts, extracts characteristic amounts from sound collected by the microphones for detection of a sound source, determines a class to which the extracted characteristic amounts belong, from the preset plurality of classes, and estimates the sound source based on the class.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicants: MEIJO UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20140241532Abstract: A sound source detecting system that detects a predetermined sound source on the basis of sounds collected by sound collectors includes: a noise extracting unit that extracts a noise from signals of the collected sounds; and a noise suppressing unit that suppresses a signal component of the noise extracted by the noise extracting unit from the signals of the collected sounds. The sound source detecting unit detects a location of the predetermined sound source, such as an approaching vehicle, using information about the sounds having the signals of which the noise is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicants: MEIJO UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Sato, Ryuji Funayama, Tomoya Takatani, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20140136096Abstract: An approaching vehicle detecting system that detects an approaching vehicle on the basis of sounds collected by a plurality of sound collectors mounted on a host vehicle determines whether a transverse moving direction of a sound source detected by the plurality of sound collectors is a direction approaching the host vehicle, determines whether a vertical position of the sound source detected using the plurality of sound collectors is in the same plane as that of the host vehicle, and detects that sound source as the approaching vehicle when it is determined that the transverse moving direction of the sound source is the direction approaching the host vehicle and the vertical position of the sound source is in the same plane as that of the host vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicants: MEIJO UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Funayama, Jun Sato, Hisashi Satonaka, Keiichi Yamada, Hideki Banno, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Akira Ogawa
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Publication number: 20130188794Abstract: Provided is a device for detecting sound outside vehicle capable of detecting sounds outside the vehicle with high accuracy in various surrounding environments. A sound source direction detecting ECU 1 acquires sound collection information about sounds outside a vehicle which are collected by microphones 2A to 2G. The sound source direction detecting ECU 1 acquires traveling road information about the vicinity of a host vehicle on the basis of the acquired sound collection information. When the traveling road information is acquired, the sound source direction detecting ECU 1 adjusts the sound collection characteristics of the microphones 2A to 2G on the basis of the traveling road information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicants: MEIJO UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Kawamata, Hisashi Satonaka, Ryuji Funayama, Keiichi Yamada, Osami Yamamoto, Hideki Banno, Kensaku Asahi, Akira Ogawa
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Publication number: 20080025521Abstract: A method, device, system, program and recording medium for impulse response measurement which can improve a measurement accuracy without lowering the S/N ratio over the whole range, from lower frequencies to higher frequencies, of a measuring signal are provided. A signal generation unit (21) of a device for impulse response measurement (10-1) generates a W-TSP signal (x(t)) having characteristics of a TSP signal and a Log-TSP signal. A D/A conversion unit (22) converts the digital signal (x(t)) into an analog signal (x(t)) and outputs the converted signal to a headphone (2) or a speaker (5). An A/D conversion unit (23) inputs an analog signal (y(t)) received by a microphone (3) or a microphone (6) and converts the inputted signal into a digital signal (y(t)). An inverse signal generation unit (24) generates an inverse W-TSP signal (x(t)). A convolution unit (25) convolutes the signal (y(t)) and the inverse W-TSP signal (x?1(t)) thereby to calculate an impulse response (g(t)).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2005Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: Wakayama UniversityInventors: Masanori Morise, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara, Hideki Banno