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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1999
Joseph Marash, Haifa, IL;
Baruch Berdugo, Kiriat-Ata, IL;
Andrea Electronics Corporation, Melville, NY (US);
Abstract
A sensor array receiving system which incorporates one or more filters that are capable of adaptive and/or fixed operation. The filters are defined by a multiple of coefficients and the coefficients are set so as to maximize the signal to noise ratio of the receiving array's output. In one preferred embodiment, the filter coefficients are adaptively determined and are faded into a predetermined group of fixed values upon the occurrence of a specified event. Thereby, allowing the sensor array to operate in both the adaptive and fixed modes, and providing the array with the ability to employ the mode most favorable for a given operating environment. In another preferred embodiment, the filter coefficients are set to a fixed group of values which are determined to be optimal for a predefined noise environment.