Low noise differential microphone arrays

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9749745
APP PUB NO 20160134969A1
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14980802

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A differential microphone array includes a number (M) of microphone sensors for converting sound to a number of electrical signals, and a processor, operably coupled to the microphone sensors, to specify a target differential order (N) for the differential microphone array, and wherein M>N+1, specify a steering matrix D comprising N+1 steering vectors, calculate a respective one of a plurality of linearly specify a steering matrix D comprising N+1 steering vectors-constrained minimum variance filters based on the steering matrix, apply the respective one of the plurality of linearly-constrained minimum variance filters to a respective one of the electrical signals to calculate a respective frequency response of the electrical signals, wherein the respective frequency response comprises a plurality of components associated with a plurality of subbands, and sum the frequency responses of the electrical signals with respect to each subband to calculate an estimated frequency spectrum of the sound.

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NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITYXIAN SHAANXI 710072

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Benesty, Jacob Montreal, CA 23 407
Chen, Jingdong Shanxi, CN 50 623

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