US Patent Issued to ORANGE on May 5 for "Locating a moving acoustic source" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,623, issued on May 5, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Locating a moving acoustic source" was invented by Srdan Kitic (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Jerome Daniel (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing sound signals acquired by at least one microphone, to locate a sound source emitting from a plurality of discrete positions at respective discrete points in time, in a space comprising at least one planar reflective surface. The method includes: obtaining: a first vector u -less than 0 ( k ) determining a direction of a first acoustic path, direct between the source and the microphone, a s...