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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2009
Yasushi Obata, Osaka, JP;
Hitoshi Miyamoto, Osaka, JP;
Hiroyoshi Sato, Osaka, JP;
Shinya Uchida, Osaka, JP;
Yasushi Obata, Osaka, JP;
Hitoshi Miyamoto, Osaka, JP;
Hiroyoshi Sato, Osaka, JP;
Shinya Uchida, Osaka, JP;
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi-Shi, JP;
Abstract
A first microphone device according to the present invention comprises a pair of directional microphones with high directivity in a sound collecting direction, a pair of nondirectional microphones with low directivity in the sound collecting direction, and a casing accommodating the pair of directional microphones and the pair of nondirectional microphones. The pair of nondirectional microphones is arranged so that sound collecting directions thereof are outward from both side surface walls of the casing, while the pair of directional microphones is arranged so that sound collecting directions thereof are outward from a front surface wall of the casing and intersect each other in vicinity of the front surface wall. All or a part of the pair of directional microphones is accommodated in a space sandwiched by the pair of nondirectional microphones.