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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2024
Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc., Niles, IL (US);
Matthew Koschak, Deerfield, IL (US);
William Wallace Taylor, III, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Joseph Michael Bradel, South Beloit, IL (US);
Brent Robert Shumard, Mount Prospect, IL (US);
Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc., Niles, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for capturing and encoding ambisonic audio are described herein. An example ambisonic microphone may comprise a first microphone capsule oriented substantially toward a first vertex of a notional tetrahedron, a second microphone capsule oriented substantially toward a second vertex of the notional tetrahedron, a third microphone capsule oriented substantially toward a third vertex of the notional tetrahedron, and a fourth microphone capsule oriented substantially toward a fourth vertex of the notional tetrahedron.