US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Nov. 18 for "Sound collection device, sound collection method, and storage medium storing sound collection program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,272, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound collection device, sound collection method, and storage medium storing sound collection program" was invented by Tomoharu Awano (Tokyo), Masaru Kimura (Tokyo) and Shigeaki Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound collection device performs Fourier transform on a first sound reception signal outputted from a first microphone and outputs a first signal, performs Fourier transform on a second sound reception signal outputted from a second microphone and outputs a second signal, estimates an arrival direction of the voice, calculates a phase of ...