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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2018
Applicant:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Yazu, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01); H04R 2410/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
The sound pick-up apparatus has a first area sound pick-up unit configured to acquire, on a basis of an input signal from a microphone array unit capable of forming microphone arrays with three or more different directionalities, area sound pick-up outputs based on two or more patterns of combinations of the microphone arrays, and a second area sound pick-up unit configured to output, as an area sound pick-up result, a result obtained by integrating the area sound pick-up outputs of the respective patterns which are acquired by the first area sound pick-up unit.