Application of near-field optimum microphone arrays to hands-free mobile telephony

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 390-400

  Ryan, James G ^a,b   Goubran, Rafik A ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Gennum Corporation   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Hands free mobile telephony; Microphone array; Near field

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BEAMFORMING; MOBILE TELEPHONY;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037616271     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2002.808803     Document Type: Article

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