Method and apparatus for steerable and endfire superdirective mi

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Binaural and stereophonic – Stereo sound pickup device

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381 681, 381 92, H04R 5027

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ABSTRACT:
An end fire microphone array having reduced analog-to-digital converter requirements is disclosed. Analog filters are used to band-limit at least two secondary microphone elements which are spaced from a primary microphone element a distance respective of their band limited outputs. The band-limited secondary microphone outputs are combined by an analog summer and the primary microphone and combined secondary microphone signals are digitized by an analog-to-digital converter. A signal processor performs a super-directive analysis of the primary microphone signal and the combined secondary microphone signals.
A steerable superdirective microphone array is disclosed. A plurality of microphones are arranged in a ring. The microphone outputs are digitized, split into frequency bands, and weighted sums are formed for each of a plurality of directions. A steering control circuit evaluates the relative energy of each directional signal in each band and selects a microphone direction for further processing and output.

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