US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on Feb. 3 for "Sound collection setting method and sound collection apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,995, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Sound collection setting method and sound collection apparatus" was invented by Koichiro Sato (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound collection setting method detects a specific object from an image captured by a camera, obtains position information of the specific object in the image, and sets a sound collection target range of a microphone by changing directivity of the microphone, based on the position information."

The patent was filed on Aug. 7, 2023, under Application No. 18/366,058.

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