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`in patent numberUSe8617560, tanita14October2014 and for which a
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`"providing a microphone array system comprising an array of sound sensorspositioned in an
`arbitrary configuration, a sound sourcelocalization unit, an adaptive beamforming unit, and a
`noise reduction unit, wherein said sound sourcelocalization unit, said adaptive beamforming
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`sound sensors;" in claim 1 of the parent application US8861756 is broadened as explained in
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`Attached Sheet
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`In the limitation: "providing a microphonearray system comprising an array of sound
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`sensors positioned in an arbitrary configuration, a sound sourcelocalization unit, an
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`adaptive beamforming unit, and a noise reduction unit, wherein said sound source
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`localization unit, said adaptive beamforming unit, and said noise reduction unit are
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`in operative communication with said array of said sound sensors;" in claim | of the
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`parent application US8861756, the recitation “wherein said sound source localization
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`unit, said adaptive beamforming unit, and said noise reduction unit are in operative
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`communication with said array of said sound sensors” is broadened to “wherein said
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`digital signal processoris in operative communication with said array of said sound
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`sensors’. Since the sound source localization unit, said adaptive beamforming unit, and
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`said noise reduction unit are already integrated into the digital signal processor,it is
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`wrongto recite that the sound source localization unit, the adaptive beamforming unit,
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`and the noise reduction unit are in operative communication with the array of sound
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`sensors. Instead, the correct recitation is that the digital signal processor is in operative
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`communication with the array of sound sensors. This error was not corrected in the first
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`reissue patent. Since only one module (digital signal processor) is communicating with
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`the array of sound sensorsinstead of three modules (the sound sourcelocalization unit,
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`the adaptive beamforming unit, and the noise reduction unit), it is a broadening reissue.
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`Furthermore, in claim 1, the limitation regarding “echo cancellation unit” was not
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`recited in the parent application and in thefirst reissue application. The limitation
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`regarding “echo cancellation unit” has been addedin the present application. The "echo
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`cancellation unit" further enhances the target sound signal of the microphonearray
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`system.
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