Patents by Inventor Shinichi SHIGENAGA
Shinichi SHIGENAGA 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: 9621982Abstract: A directivity control apparatus controls a directivity of a sound collected by a first sound collecting unit including a plurality of microphones. The directivity control apparatus includes a directivity forming unit, configured to form a directivity of the sound in a direction toward a monitoring target corresponding to a first designated position in an image displayed on a display unit, and an information obtaining unit, configured to obtain information on a second designated position in the image displayed on the display unit, designated in accordance with a movement of the monitoring target. The directivity forming unit is configured to change the directivity of the sound toward the monitoring target corresponding to the second designated position by referring to the information on the second designated position obtained by the information obtaining unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Shigenaga, Akitoshi Izumi, Kazunori Hayashi, Toshimichi Tokuda, Hirotaka Sawa
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Patent number: 9549244Abstract: A directivity control system includes: a sound collection unit, configured to collect a sound; a display unit, configured to display a designation screen used to designate a directivity direction oriented from the sound collection unit to a first sound position; a directivity direction calculation unit, configured to calculate a horizontal angle and a vertical angle from the sound collection unit to the first sound position corresponding to the designated directivity direction in accordance with a designation of the directivity direction on the designation screen displayed by the display unit; and a control unit, configured to form directivity of the sound collected by the sound collection unit based on the horizontal angle and the vertical angle calculated by the directivity direction calculation unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Shigenaga, Kazunori Hayashi, Toshimichi Tokuda, Hirotaka Sawa, Kosuke Shinozaki, Shuichi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20170006375Abstract: A directivity control apparatus controls a directivity of a sound collected by a first sound collecting unit including a plurality of microphones. The directivity control apparatus includes a directivity forming unit, configured to form a directivity of the sound in a direction toward a monitoring target corresponding to a first designated position in an image displayed on a display unit, and an information obtaining unit, configured to obtain information on a second designated position in the image displayed on the display unit, designated in accordance with a movement of the monitoring target. The directivity forming unit is configured to change the directivity of the sound toward the monitoring target corresponding to the second designated position by referring to the information on the second designated position obtained by the information obtaining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Akitoshi IZUMI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Hirotaka SAWA
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Patent number: 9516412Abstract: A directivity control apparatus controls a directivity of a sound collected by a sound collecting unit including a plurality of microphones. A beam forming unit forms a beam in a direction from the sound collecting unit toward a sound source corresponding to a position designated in an image on a display unit. A magnification setting unit sets a magnification for magnifying or demagnifying the image in the display according to an input. The beam forming unit also changes a size of the formed beam in accordance with the magnification set by the magnification setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Shigenaga, Shuichi Watanabe, Tadashi Maki, Akitoshi Izumi, Kazunori Hayashi, Toshimichi Tokuda, Shojiro Matsuo, Hirotaka Sawa
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Patent number: 9414153Abstract: A directivity control apparatus controls a directivity of a sound collected by a first sound collecting unit including a plurality of microphones. The directivity control apparatus includes a directivity forming unit, configured to form a directivity of the sound in a direction toward a monitoring target corresponding to a first designated position in an image displayed on a display unit, and an information obtaining unit, configured to obtain information on a second designated position in the image displayed on the display unit, designated in accordance with a movement of the monitoring target. The directivity forming unit is configured to change the directivity of the sound toward the monitoring target corresponding to the second designated position by referring to the information on the second designated position obtained by the information obtaining unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Shigenaga, Akitoshi Izumi, Kazunori Hayashi, Toshimichi Tokuda, Hirotaka Sawa
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Publication number: 20160142620Abstract: Sound collection directionality is formed toward a location corresponding to a position designated in a video of a predetermined region which is imaged by a camera apparatus with a microphone array apparatus as a reference, and audio data is collected with high accuracy. In a directionality control system (10), a signal processing unit (33) derives a sound collection direction (?MAh,?MAv) which is directed from an installation position of a microphone array apparatus (2) toward a sound position corresponding to a position designated in video data on a screen of the display device (36) in response to a user's designation of any position in the video data displayed on the screen. The signal processing unit (33) forms sound collection directionality of audio data in the derived sound collection direction (?MAh,?MAv).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka SAWA, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Shuichi WATANABE, Shojiro MATSUO, Takashi HIRABARA, Tadashi MAKI, Hisashi TSUJI, Teppei FUKUDA, Akitoshi IZUMI, Shintaro YOSHIKUNI, Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Kazunori HAYASHI, Kosuke SHINOZAKI
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Publication number: 20160019888Abstract: There is provided an order entry system including: a first microphone that picks up speech regarding order details of a first speaker; a second microphone that picks up speech regarding the order details of a second speaker for checking the order details of the first speaker; a speech recognizer that recognizes the speech regarding the order details of the first speaker which is picked up by the first microphone and the speech regarding the order details of the second speaker which is picked up by the second microphone; and an order data output that displays on a display, a display screen of order data regarding the order details of the first speaker, including a first speech recognition result of the speech regarding the order details of the first speaker and a second speech recognition result of the speech regarding the order details of the second speaker.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Ryota FUJII, Hisahiro TANAKA, Koshi TANAKA, Akitoshi IZUMI, Masanari MIYAMOTO, Shinichi TAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20160014506Abstract: A sound collecting control apparatus includes: a vehicle stop detector; a noise source direction specifier to specify a direction from the sound collector to a noise source of the vehicle stopped at the predetermined position; a search beam former that forms a plurality of search beams in the direction of the noise source specified by the noise source direction specifier and around the direction of the noise source so as to search for a sound source of a voice of a speaker in the vehicle; a search beam selector that selects a search beam corresponding to the sound source of the voice of the speaker in the vehicle from the plurality of search beams formed by the search beam former; and a directivity former that forms directivity of the sound collected by the sound collector in the direction corresponding to the search beam selected by the search beam selector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koshi TANAKA, Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Ryota FUJII, Masanari MIYAMOTO, Kazuyuki HORIO, Yuji ABE
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Publication number: 20150350621Abstract: A recorder receives designation of a video which is desired to be reproduced from a user. If designation of one or more designated locations where sound is emphasized on a screen of a display which displays the video is received by the recorder from the user via an operation unit during reproduction or temporary stopping of the video, a signal processing unit performs an emphasis process on audio data, that is, the signal processing unit emphasizes audio data in directions directed toward positions corresponding to the designated locations from a microphone array by using audio data recorded in the recorder. A reproducing device reproduces the emphasis-processed audio data and video data in synchronization with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka SAWA, Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Shintaro YOSHIKUNI, Shuichi WATANABE, Tadashi MAKI, Hirokazu TASAKA, Susumu ONO, Keisuke FUJIMOTO, Shojiro MATSUO, Teppei FUKUDA, Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Akitoshi IZUMI, Hisashi TSUJI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Ryoichi YUGE
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Publication number: 20150326968Abstract: A directivity control apparatus controls a directivity of a sound collected by a first sound collecting unit including a plurality of microphones. The directivity control apparatus includes a directivity forming unit, configured to form a directivity of the sound in a direction toward a monitoring target corresponding to a first designated position in an image displayed on a display unit, and an information obtaining unit, configured to obtain information on a second designated position in the image displayed on the display unit, designated in accordance with a movement of the monitoring target. The directivity forming unit is configured to change the directivity of the sound toward the monitoring target corresponding to the second designated position by referring to the information on the second designated position obtained by the information obtaining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2014Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Akitoshi IZUMI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Hirotaka SAWA
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Publication number: 20150281833Abstract: A directivity control apparatus controls a directivity of a sound collected by a sound collecting unit including a plurality of microphones. A beam forming unit forms a beam in a direction from the sound collecting unit toward a sound source corresponding to a position designated in an image on a display unit. A magnification setting unit sets a magnification for magnifying or demagnifying the image in the display according to an input. The beam forming unit also changes a size of the formed beam in accordance with the magnification set by the magnification setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Shuichi WATANABE, Tadashi MAKI, Akitoshi IZUMI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Shojiro MATSUO, Hirotaka SAWA
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Publication number: 20150023524Abstract: A directivity control system includes: a sound collection unit, configured to collect a sound; a display unit, configured to display a designation screen used to designate a directivity direction oriented from the sound collection unit to a first sound position; a directivity direction calculation unit, configured to calculate a horizontal angle and a vertical angle from the sound collection unit to the first sound position corresponding to the designated directivity direction in accordance with a designation of the directivity direction on the designation screen displayed by the display unit; and a control unit, configured to form directivity of the sound collected by the sound collection unit based on the horizontal angle and the vertical angle calculated by the directivity direction calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Hirotaka SAWA, Kosuke SHINOZAKI, Shuichi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20140376740Abstract: A system includes an imaging part that captures an image, a sound collection part that collects sounds, a display part that displays image data captured by the imaging part, a directive direction calculation part that calculates a directive direction which directs toward a sound position corresponding to a designated position of the image data from the sound collection part when any position of the displayed image data is designated, and a control part that forms a directivity in the sounds in the calculated directive direction. The control part controls output of the sounds collected by the sound collection part or output of the sounds which are collected by the sound collection part and of which the directivity is formed, or suspends collection of sounds in the sound collection part, when it is determined that the sound position is included in a preset protection region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Hirotaka SAWA, Kazunori HAYASHI, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Shintaro YOSHIKUNI, Kosuke SHINOZAKI