A bank of beamformers implementing a constant-amplitude panning law

J Acoust Soc Am. 2014 Sep;136(3):EL212. doi: 10.1121/1.4892669.

Abstract

This paper describes a technique for designing a collection of beamformers, a "beamformer bank," that approximately produces a constant-amplitude panning law. Useful in multichannel audio recording scenarios, a point source will appear with energy above a specified sidelobe level in at most two adjacent beams, and the sum of all beam signals will approximate the source signal. A design method is described in which a specified sidelobe level determines beamwidth as a function of arrival direction and frequency, leading directly to the number and placement of beams at each frequency. Simulation results are presented verifying the proposed technique's performance.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't