US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Dec. 16 for "Earhole-wearable sound collection device, signal processing device, and sound collection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,208, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Earhole-wearable sound collection device, signal processing device, and sound collection method" was invented by Kohei Asada (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinpei Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Daizen Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Koji Nageno (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technique relates to an earhole-wearable sound collection device, a signal processing device, and a sound collection method for realizing sound collection at a high S/N ratio, with noise influence being reduced not by a noise reduction process. In the earhole-wearable sound collection device, a microph...