US Patent Issued to Audio-Technica on May 6 for "Sound collection system, sound collection method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,844, issued on May 6, was assigned to Audio-Technica Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound collection system, sound collection method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Keishi Matsunaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sound collection system includes: a first beamformer that outputs a first signal obtained by emphasizing sound coming from a direction within a first range, among sound arriving at a plurality of microphones, more than sound coming from other directions; a second beamformer that outputs a second signal obtained by emphasizing sound coming from a direction within a second range more than sound coming from othe...