Patent ID: 9641928
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G10L,H04R

Claim:
1. A sound acquiring control apparatus comprising: a sensor that detects a vehicle stopped at a predetermined position; a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: forming a plurality of first search beams in a direction of a predetermined reference beam and in directions around the predetermined reference beam, to search for an engine noise source by using a microphone array that includes a plurality of sound acquiring elements and that acquires an outdoor-sound, detecting, by the sensor, the vehicle stopped at the predetermined position, specifying an engine noise beam corresponding to the engine noise source of the vehicle stopped at the predetermined position, of the plurality of the first search beams, based on the specified engine noise beam, forming a plurality of second search beams in a direction of the specified engine noise beam and in directions around the direction of the specified engine noise beam, to search for a sound source of a voice of a person in the vehicle; selecting a voice beam corresponding to the sound source of the voice of the person in the vehicle, from the plurality of second search beams; and outputting, from an indoor-speaker, the voice of the person in the vehicle acquired by the microphone array using the selected voice beam.