Patent 7120262 was granted and assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft on October, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Provided is a directional-microphone system, as well as a method for signal processing in such a directional-microphone system, wherein a particularly controllable second-order directional-microphone pattern is ensured while the number of figure-of-eight microphones required to generate such pattern is minimized.