A digital beamsteerer for difference frequency in a parametric array

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1018-1024

  Gan, Woon Seng ^a,b   Yang, Jun ^a,b,c   Tan, Khim Sia ^b   Er, Meng Hwa ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Array processing; Audio system; Bcamsteering; Parametric array

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL BEAMSTEERERS; FRACTIONAL DELAY; PARAMETRIC ARRAYS; SIDEBAND FREQUENCIES;

ALGORITHMS; ARRAY PROCESSING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETRIC DEVICES;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047270913     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.857786     Document Type: Article

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