Conversation assisting apparatus, conversation assisting method, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
AssigneeNTT, Inc.
InventorKazunori Kobayashi
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Abstract
A conversation assisting method of the present invention is performed in a first space in order to transmit an acoustic signal between the first space and a second space, separated by an isolation object, by using the isolation object. In the conversation assisting method of the present invention, a sound to be transmitted to the second space is emitted from the first space side to the isolation object at a predetermined intensity. Further, in the conversation assisting method of the present invention, a sound transmitted through the isolation object is picked up, and from the picked-up sound, a sound except for the emitted sound is emphasized and output.
Claims16
A conversation assisting apparatus that is placed in a first space in order to transmit an acoustic signal between the first space and a second space, separated by an isolation object, by using the isolation object, the apparatus comprising:
- a switch;
- and
- a processing circuitry which executes
- a sound emission processing comprising transmitting a sound, to be transmitted to the second space, from the first space side to the isolation object at a predetermined intensity;
- a sound pickup processing comprising picking up a sound transmitted through the isolation object;
- and
- an emphasis processing comprising emphasizing and outputting a sound from the picked-up sound,
- wherein, the emphasis processing includes a blocking processing, and
- when the switch indicates a state of sound transmission from the first space to the second space, the blocking processing comprises blocking the sound output from the emphasis processing.
A conversation assisting apparatus that is placed in a first space in order to transmit an acoustic signal between the first space and a second space, separated by an isolation object, by using the isolation object, the apparatus comprising:
- a sensor;
- and a processing circuitry which executes
- a sound emission processing comprising transmitting a sound, to be transmitted to the second space, from the first space side to the isolation object at a predetermined intensity;
- a sound pickup processing comprising picking up a sound transmitted through the isolation object;
- and
- an emphasis processing comprising emphasizing and outputting a sound from the picked-up sound,
- wherein, the sensor that detects contact of the sound pickup processing with the isolation object,
- when the sensor detects no contact, the emphasis processing blocks the sound output from the emphasis processing, and
- when the sensor detects contact, the emphasis processing outputs the sound in the second space.
A conversation assisting apparatus that is placed in a first space in order to transmit an acoustic signal between the first space and a second space, separated by an isolation object, by using the isolation object, the apparatus comprising:
- an utterance detector;
- and a processing circuitry which executes
- a sound emission processing comprising transmitting a sound, to be transmitted to the second space, from the first space side to the isolation object at a predetermined intensity;
- a sound pickup processing comprising picking up a sound transmitted through the isolation object;
- and
- an emphasis processing comprising emphasizing and outputting a sound from the picked-up sound,
- wherein, the emphasis processing includes blocking processing,
- the utterance detector that detects whether or not a sound to be transmitted to the second space has been input,
- when the utterance detector detects a sound to be transmitted to the second space, the emphasis processing blocks the sound output from the emphasis processing by the blocking processing, and
- when the utterance detector detects no sound to be transmitted to the second space, the emphasis processing outputs the sound in the second space without operating the blocking processing.
A conversation assisting apparatus that is placed in a first space in order to transmit an acoustic signal between the first space and a second space, separated by an isolation object, by using the isolation object, the apparatus comprising:
- a processing circuitry which executes
- a sound emission processing comprising transmitting a sound, to be transmitted to the second space, from the first space side to the isolation object at a predetermined intensity;
- a sound pickup processing comprising picking up a sound transmitted through the isolation object;
- and
- an emphasis processing comprising emphasizing and outputting a sound from the picked-up sound, wherein
- the sound emitted to the isolation object is a sound passing through a first comb filter,
- the sound emphasized and output is a sound passing through a second comb filter, and
- a passband of the second comb filter is a stopband of the first comb filter.
A conversation assisting apparatus that is placed in a first space in order to transmit an acoustic signal between the first space and a second space, separated by an isolation object, by using the isolation object, the apparatus comprising:
- a processing circuitry which executes
- a sound emission processing comprising transmitting a sound, to be transmitted to the second space, from the first space side to the isolation object at a predetermined intensity;
- a sound pickup processing comprising picking up a sound transmitted through the isolation object;
- and
- an emphasis processing comprising emphasizing and outputting a sound from the picked-up sound,
- wherein, the emphasis processing has an echo canceling processing, and
- the echo canceling processing uses a sound to be transmitted to the second space to emphasize a sound except for the sound emitted from the picked-up sound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.