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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2005
Applicants:
Stephane Dedieu, Ottawa, CA;
Philippe Moquin, Ottawa, CA;
Inventors:
Stephane Dedieu, Ottawa, CA;
Philippe Moquin, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
Mitel Networks Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A beamsteerer for broadband energy source location, comprising an array of sensors, each for generating a signal vector within one of a plurality of sectors in a domain of interest, and a beamformer for receiving and multiplying each signal vector by a set of optimal weight vectors to generate a plurality of beampatterns, each of the beampatterns being characterized by a null having high angular resolution, and detecting the source by selecting a maximum steering index.