Second-order differential adaptive microphone array

  • Authors:
  • Gary W. Elko;Jens Meyer

  • Affiliations:
  • mh acoustics, 25A Summit Ave, NJ 07901, USA;mh acoustics, 25A Summit Ave, NJ 07901, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

An adaptive second-order differential microphone design is proposed here that is constructed from a weighted sum of omnidirectional microphones. Theoretically, only three microphones are required to form a second-order array. The three microphone signals are combined to form three unique fixed second-order beams. Any second-order differential beampattern can be realized using a weighted sum of these three “building-block” beam outputs. If certain simple constraints are placed on the weighting of the three fixed beams, the two null locations that define the final second-order beampattern can be constrained to defined angular regions.