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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2019
Applicant:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Sakurako Yazawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kazunori Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/406 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sound collecting apparatus includes a base of a substantially spherical body and a plurality of microphones provided on the base, a number of the microphones having a predetermined constraint, the plurality of microphones being alternately arranged vertically relative to a horizontal plane including a center of the substantially spherical body in order to improve resolution in a horizontal direction.