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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2019
Applicant:
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Ukai, Waltham, MA (US);
Assignee:
YAMAHA CORPORATION, Hamamatsu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 1/34 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H03G 3/30 (2006.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/40 (2013.01); G10K 11/1785 (2018.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sound pickup method includes splitting a sound pickup signal of a microphone of which sound pickup in a predetermined range is blocked by an acoustic obstacle, into a plurality of sound pickup signals and subjecting at least one sound pickup signal among the plurality of sound pickup signals to band limitation processing, and comparing characteristic amounts of the plurality of sound pickup signals including the sound pickup signal after being subjected to the band limitation processing and controlling a gain of the microphone in accordance with a result of comparing the characteristic amounts.