Modal beam processing of acoustic vector sensor data

Details Modal beam processing of acoustic vector sensor data Modal beam processing of acoustic vector sensor data

2008-07-30

2010-11-23

Pihulic, Dan (Department: 3662)

Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices

Receiver circuitry

C367S119000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07839721

ABSTRACT:
The present invention, as typically embodied, represents a novel methodology for effecting linear processing of output signals that are received from one or more acoustic vector sensors. First, as pertains to each modal beam, the modal beam amplitude response bmn, is calculated as the matrix product of a data vector d and a modal weighting vector wmn, wherein the weighting vector wmnis uniquely defined in terms of three different linear modal weighting vector equations corresponding to wmnx, wmny, and wmnz, respectively. Second, as pertains to all of the modal beams, the directional beam amplitude response bdirMNis calculated as the sum of all of the individual modal beam amplitude responses bmn. Because the inventive processing methodology is linear in nature (as distinguished from non-linear, e.g., quadratic, in nature), inventive practice is highly effective for performing quantitative acoustic measurements of sound fields.

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