Patent Document ID: 20090003624
Application ID: 12139344
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A device comprising: a headset including at least one loudspeaker, wherein the headset attaches to a region of a human head; a microphone array connected to the headset, the microphone array including a first physical microphone outputting a first microphone signal and a second physical microphone outputting a second microphone signal; and a processing component coupled to the microphone array and generating a virtual microphone array comprising a first virtual microphone and a second virtual microphone, the first virtual microphone comprising a first combination of the first microphone signal and the second microphone signal, the second virtual microphone comprising a second combination of the first microphone signal and the second microphone signal, wherein the second combination is different from the first combination, wherein the first virtual microphone and the second virtual microphone have substantially similar responses to noise and substantially dissimilar responses to speech.