H04R 29/004
Monitoring arrangements: for microphones
Official title: {for microphones (H04R29/007 takes precedence)}
H04R29/004 (Monitoring arrangements: for microphones) appears on 1,487 US grants and 1,619 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Personalized, real-time audio processing6 Oct 2026US 12,755,748 B2eBay Inc.
- Wearable device with blocked sensor detection6 Oct 2026US 12,756,983 B2Bose Corporation
- Audio electronic device and wind noise control method for microphone thereof22 Sep 2026US 12,745,035 B2Goertek Inc.
- Sound test device for, and a method of, testing a DUT, in particular a MEMS microphone25 Aug 2026US 12,715,760 B2Cohu GmbH
- State-dependent query response25 Aug 2026US 12,717,858 B2Google Inc.
- Electronic device and method for performing audio communication between first space and second space1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299872 A1Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
- Robust voice activity detector system for use with an earphone1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299875 A1ST DetectTech, LLC
- Microphones with signal-to-noise ratio on-demand1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303047 A1
- Systems and methods for seamless teleconferencing24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292071 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Distributed sound exposure estimation using host and remote device data10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266652 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Self calibrating multi-element dipole microphone495US 8,824,692 B2Vocollect, Inc. · 2014
- Characterizing environment using ultrasound pilot tones371US 9,319,816 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Hearing aid having plural microphones and a microphone switching system227US 5,524,056 AEtymotic Research, Inc. · 1996
- Systems and methods for remotely controlling local audio devices in a virtual wireless multitrack recording system208US 9,406,224 B1Zaxcom, Inc. · 2016
- Determining speaker direction using a spherical microphone array204US 9,560,441 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017