US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on July 22 for "Microphone detection using historical and cache coordinate databases" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,611, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Microphone detection using historical and cache coordinate databases" was invented by Zequn Jie (Shenzhen, China), Zheng Ge (Shenzhen, China) and Wei Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio acquisition device positioning method is provided. In the method, a first image that includes an audio acquisition device is obtained. The audio acquisition device in the first image is identified. First coordinate data of the identified audio acquisition device in the first image is obtained. First displacement data is determine...