US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on March 17 for "Sound collection control method and sound collection apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,232, issued on March 17, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Sound collection control method and sound collection apparatus" was invented by Yoshifumi Oizumi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound collection control method recognizes a speaker from an image, detects a position of the recognized speaker, sets a first collection beam based on the position of the recognized speaker, recognizes a specific object other than the recognized speaker from an image, detects a position of the recognized specific object, and sets a second collection beam based on the detected position of the recognized specific o...