Patent ID: 11895462
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A microphone device, comprising:
two or more microphone elements for picking up sounds which are disposed in spatially different locations;
a baffle that has a surface on which the two or more microphone elements are disposed, and interferes with, among the sounds, a passage of a sound other than a direct sound that travels from a frontal direction in which the two or more microphone elements face and directly reaches the two or more microphone elements; and
a directionality synthesizer that produces a directionality synthesized signal by performing directionality synthesis on output signals outputted by the two or more microphone elements, wherein
the baffle is in a shape of a cone, and
the two or more microphone elements are disposed at locations on the surface of the baffle such that none of the two or more microphone elements are disposed at a vertex of the cone.