Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Kinoshita

Tetsuo Kinoshita 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).

  • Acoustic processing device and acoustic processing method
    Patent number: 9720068
    Abstract: An acoustic processing device includes: a sound pickup unit configured to record an acoustic signal; a motion detection unit configured to detect the motion of the device; a self-localization unit configured to estimate the position of the device based on the acoustic signal and the motion; and a use determination unit configured to determine whether or not to use the acoustic signal in a sound source localization unit detecting the position of a target sound source to be detected based on the intensity of a reference signal incoming from a reference sound source determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakamura, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Tetsuo Kinoshita, Hideyuki Takahashi, Lana Sinapayen
  • ACOUSTIC PROCESSING DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20160033615
    Abstract: An acoustic processing device includes: a sound pickup unit configured to record an acoustic signal; a motion detection unit configured to detect the motion of the device; a self-localization unit configured to estimate the position of the device based on the acoustic signal and the motion; and a use determination unit configured to determine whether or not to use the acoustic signal in a sound source localization unit detecting the position of a target sound source to be detected based on the intensity of a reference signal incoming from a reference sound source determined in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakamura, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Tetsuo Kinoshita, Hideyuki Takahashi, Lana Sinapayen