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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2018
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Junichi Uchida, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 5/027 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 5/027 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01); H04R 2410/05 (2013.01); H04S 7/30 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sound collecting device, comprising stereo microphones that are arranged apart in a direction intersecting obliquely with respect to a direction that is vertical to a direction connecting the user and an subject, and arranged at different distances in the direction that joins the user and the subject, and a processor for directivity control that adjust directivity of speech signals from the stereo microphones.