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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2015
Applicant:

Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (Epfl), Lausanne, CH;

Inventors:

Ivan Dokmanic, Lausanne, CH;

Robin Scheibler, Lausanne, CH;

Martin Vetterli, Grandvaux, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/18 (2006.01); G10K 11/34 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/712 (2011.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/18 (2013.01); G10K 11/34 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04B 1/712 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04S 7/305 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01); H04R 2203/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

An acoustic processing method for M acoustic receivers comprising the steps of: Determining a beamforming weight vector with M weights for the M acoustic receivers based on at least one the steering vector of at least one real acoustic source, on steering vectors of image sources of the at least one real acoustic source and on a first matrix depending on the covariance matrix of the noise and/or on at least one interfering sound source, wherein each of the image sources corresponds to one path of the acoustic signal between one of the at least one real source and one of the M acoustic receivers with at least one reflection; and linearly combining the M acoustic signals received at the M acoustic receivers on the basis of the M weights of the beamforming vector.


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