Invention Application
- Patent Title: OPTICAL MICROPHONE
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Application No.: US17846284Application Date: 2022-06-22
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Publication No.: US20220322014A1Publication Date: 2022-10-06
- Inventor: Toshiyuki MATSUMURA , Yuki TERASHIMA
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Applicant Address: US CA Torrance
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Torrance
- Priority: JP2021-007464 20210120
- Main IPC: H04R23/00
- IPC: H04R23/00 ; H04R1/40 ; H04R3/00 ; G02B27/10 ; G02B27/30 ; G02F2/00 ; G02F1/31

Abstract:
An optical microphone includes: a light source; a first optical divider dividing light from the light source into reference light and measurement light; a second optical divider dividing the measurement light into N measurement light beams; a first emitter emitting the N measurement light beams from different positions toward a predetermined space; a first light receiver receiving the N measurement light beams having propagated through the space; a third optical divider dividing the reference light into N reference light beams; N optical couplers coupling the N measurement light beams with the N reference light beams on a one-to-one basis; N optical detectors receiving N coupled light beams and each detecting interference between the measurement light beam and the reference light beam in the corresponding coupled light beam; and a controller controlling directionality of sound pickup by performing signal processing on N detection signals from the N optical detectors.
Public/Granted literature
- US12028680B2 Optical microphone Public/Granted day:2024-07-02
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