US 11,838,707 B2
Capturing sound
Miikka Vilermo, Siuro (FI); Mikko-Ville Laitinen, Helsinki (FI); and Koray Ozcan, Farnborough (GB)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/392,338.
Application 17/392,338 is a continuation of application No. 15/742,611, granted, now 11,115,739, previously published as PCT/FI2016/050493, filed on Jul. 5, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 1511949 (GB), filed on Jul. 8, 2015; and application No. 1513198 (GB), filed on Jul. 27, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0368248 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04R 1/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/027 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/005 (2013.01) [H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 5/027 (2013.01); H04S 7/30 (2013.01); H04R 2201/401 (2013.01); H04S 2400/15 (2013.01); H04S 2420/01 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Apparatus comprising
a body,
a plurality of microphones arranged on the body such that the apparatus is configured to capture sound in a plurality of directions around the body, wherein the plurality of microphones are configured to enable capture of the sound such that a first subset of the plurality of microphones is configured to capture a directional part of the sound around the body, wherein the first subset of the plurality of microphones is configured to receive the sound without acoustic shadowing, wherein all or a second subset of the plurality of microphones is configured to capture at least part of the sound for estimating ambience information of the sound around the body, and
electronics for processing first signals from the first subset of the plurality of microphones for the directional part of the sound around the body, and second signals from the all or second subset of the plurality of microphones for the ambience information of the sound around the body.