Imposing pattern nulls on broadband array responses

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3390-3398

  Kootsookos, Peter J ^a,b   Ward, Darren B ^a,c   Williamson, Robert C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b e Muse Corporation Ltd   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FIR FILTERS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

BROADBAND ARRAY RESPONSES; FREQUENCY INVARIANT BEAMFORMERS (FIB); MULTIPLE FREQUENCY NULLING;

SENSORS;

ACOUSTICS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 0033047515     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424667     Document Type: Review

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