US Patent Issued to GoPro on Jan. 27 for "Wind noise reduction, flexible beamforming, and direction of arrival estimation by microphone placement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,073, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Wind noise reduction, flexible beamforming, and direction of arrival estimation by microphone placement" was invented by Timothy Dick (San Francisco), Eric Steven Penrod (Brentwood, Calif.) and Erich Tisch (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device includes a housing, a processor, and three or more microphones. The housing includes a forward wall including a sensor, a rearward wall located opposite the forward wall, and a top wall connecting the forward wall and the rearward wall. The three or more microphones are configured to capture...