To provide a sound recognition device capable of informing a user of a category of a sound source and its direction, without becoming an obstacle of a user's viewing field.
The wearable sound recognition device 1 includes: a sound source localization section for outputting direction information which indicates a sound source direction by specifying a direction of the sound source, based on right and left microphones 2L and 2R, and time difference of right and left input sounds which are input from the microphones 2L and 2R; a sound source identification section which specifies a category of the sound source based on at least either of frequency pattern of the right and left input sounds, and which outputs category information for indicating its sound source category; and vibration sections 3L and 3R provided on a section which comes in contact with the user. The vibration sections 3L and 3R vibrate with vibration patterns corresponding to the sound source category indicated by the category information, and at least one of the vibration sections 3L and 3R with different pattern vibrates for a different sound direction.
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Michiko Ema
Chiori Ueda
Takaya Muramatsu