H04R 29/005
Microphone arrays
Official title: {Microphone arrays}
H04R29/005 (Microphone arrays) appears on 714 US grants and 746 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
- 714
- Published applications
- 746
- Assignees
- 338
- Inventors
- 1,383
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 61 | 44 |
| 2025 | 45 | 32 |
| 2026 | 22 | 22 |
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
- Estimation of audio device and sound source locations18 Aug 2026US 12,713,183 B2Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Home sound localization and identification14 Jul 2026US 12,684,290 B1Apple Inc.
- Systems and methods for seamless teleconferencing7 Jul 2026US 12,676,935 B2Cisco Technology, 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
- Systems and methods for seamless teleconferencing24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292071 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Multiple-sensor die arrangement10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270598 A1TDK U.S.A. Corporation
- Audio mediation for meeting spaces10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270613 A1Barco N.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hearing aid having plural microphones and a microphone switching system227US 5,524,056 AEtymotic Research, Inc. · 1996
- Determining speaker direction using a spherical microphone array204US 9,560,441 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Electronic device for microphone operation196US 9,426,567 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2016
- Directional acoustic signal processor and method therefor195US 6,002,776 AInterval Research Corporation · 1999
- Adaptive noise cancelling arrangement, a noise reduction system and a transceiver175US 5,740,256 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1998