Microphone assembly
US11095978B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 9, 2017 |
| Grant date | Aug 17, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 3, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04R2430/23
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A microphone assembly includes: at least three microphones for capturing audio signals from the user's voice, the microphones defining a microphone plane; an acceleration sensor for sensing gravitational acceleration in at least two orthogonal dimensions so as to determine a direction of gravity; a beamformer unit for processing the captured audio signals in a manner so as to create a plurality of N acoustic beams, a unit for selecting a subgroup of M acoustic beams from the N the acoustic beams; an audio signal processing unit having M independent channels for producing an output audio signal for each of the M acoustic beams; a unit for estimating the speech quality of the audio signal in each of the channels; and an output unit for selecting the signal of the channel with the highest estimated speech quality as the output signal of the microphone assembly.
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