Patents Assigned to Audio-Technica Corporation
  • Patent number: 10971169
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sound signal processing device that precisely detects various kinds of noises and that does not block output of voice signals even when detecting noise during the output of the voice signals. The sound signal processing device according to the present invention comprises: an input part 10; an input signal determination part 20 that determines whether an input signal from the input part is present; a noise detection part 30 that detects noise included in the input signal from the input part; an output part 80 that outputs the input signal as an output signal; an output switching part 52 that performs switching between an output state in which the output part outputs the output signal and a non-output state in which the output part does not output the output signal; and a control part 60 that controls the switching performed by the output switching part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhito Kikuhara, Toru Aikawa, Yuri Jitsukata
  • Patent number: 10972843
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light guide body for a microphone that radiates light from a small number of light sources toward a surrounding of a microphone with a uniform quantity of light. The light guide body for the microphone that guides light from one or more light sources which emit light in accordance with operating a state of a microphone unit of the microphone. The light guide body has a plate shape and comprises one or more incident surfaces on which light from the light source is incident, and one or more grooves, each of which includes a reflecting surface that reflects light incident on the incident surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 10959005
    Abstract: A headphone in which the air pressure in a front cavity can be released to an external space, and whose characteristics in a low frequency range can be simply and finely adjusted is provided. The headphone includes: a driver unit; a baffle member holding the driver unit; the passage forming member attached to the baffle member and forming a vent passage with the baffle member; an ear pad defining a first space; and a cover member defining a second space. The baffle member includes: a first surface facing the first space; a second surface facing the second space; and a first through hole communicating with an internal space of the vent passage. The passage forming member includes a second through hole communicating with the internal space of the vent passage. The second space communicates with an external space of the cover member. The first space communicates with the second space through the first through hole, the vent passage, and the second through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 10955682
    Abstract: A light from a light source is output uniformly in the circumferential direction even if a shift or inclination occurs in a constituent member of a sound signal transmitter. A sound signal transmitter of a microphone includes a light source that outputs a light corresponding to a sound signal from a sound source, a division part that divides the light from the light source into a plurality of divided lights, and a reflector that reflects the divided lights from the division part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventor: Keigo Iwahori
  • Patent number: 10951969
    Abstract: A case for a microphone device includes; a housing part that has a circuit board therein; and a protrusion part that protrudes from a first end face of the housing part in a longitudinal direction so as to expose to the outside, the protrusion part being formed such that a diameter of the protrusion part becomes smaller from a root coupled to the first end face toward a tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Sano
  • Patent number: 10893354
    Abstract: A headset includes: a microphone, a first transmission line that transmits a first electrical signal generated by the microphone to an external device; an operation switch that receives an operation for switching between (i) a non-mute state in which the first electrical signal is transmitted to the external device and (ii) a mute state in which the first electrical signal is not transmitted to the external device; an electronic switch that switches between (i) a conductive state in which the first electrical signal is transmitted and (ii) a non-conductive state in which the first electrical signal is not transmitted, on the basis of a control voltage which changes according to the state of the operation switch; and a voltage generator that generates the control voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Irii, Mika Ito, Kosumo Miyauchi, Yutaka Akino
  • Patent number: 10791156
    Abstract: A stable conference system, which is reduced in the processing load placed on the system and receives a speech request from a discussion unit reliably, is be provided. A conference system S includes a control unit 1 and a discussion unit 2, a running packet is repeatedly transmitted and received between both units, the discussion unit includes a DU control portion 26, and a DU communication portion 21, the control unit includes a CU communication portion 11, and an audio slot, the DU control portion adds a request flag to the running packet, the audio slot receives audio information from the discussion unit, and when the running packet, with the request flag added, is received from the discussion unit, the CU communication portion transmits a content acquisition packet, carrying an acquisition command to acquire a content, to the discussion unit, which added the request flag, if the audio slot is vacant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Onizuka, Yasuhito Kikuhara, Toru Aikawa
  • Patent number: D893449
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventors: Kodai Tsubone, Takaya Nagamine, Shohei Araki
  • Patent number: D893458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Takubo
  • Patent number: D894151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Nagamine, Sayo Matsubara, Stefan Wennerström, Naoto Nakamura, Kiyotaka Kakemizu
  • Patent number: D894153
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventors: Mika Yoshino, Yutaro Kumagai
  • Patent number: D895584
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Sano
  • Patent number: D896790
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: D900068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Murata
  • Patent number: D900069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Murata
  • Patent number: D904347
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamamoto, Toru Fusejima
  • Patent number: D905016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Takubo, Yutaro Kumagai
  • Patent number: D907602
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keigo Iwahori, Yoshiya Watanabe
  • Patent number: D908663
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Audio-Technica Corporation
    Inventors: Akihito Tamamura, Toru Fusejima
  • Patent number: D913996
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: AUDIO-TECHNICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Sano