Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SIGNALS OF A SPHERICAL MICROPHONE ARRAY ON A RIGID SPHERE USED FOR GENERATING AN AMBISONICS REPRESENTATION OF THE SOUND FIELD
- Patent Title (中): 用于处理用于产生声场的代表性的刚性球囊上的球形麦克风阵列的信号的方法和装置
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Application No.: US15357810Application Date: 2016-11-21
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Publication No.: US20170070840A1Publication Date: 2017-03-09
- Inventor: Sven KORDON , Johann-Markus BATKE , Alexander KRUEGER , Mark R. P. THOMAS
- Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Priority: EP11306471.1 20111111
- Main IPC: H04S7/00
- IPC: H04S7/00 ; H04R3/00

Abstract:
Spherical microphone arrays capture a three-dimensional sound field (P(Ωc, t)) for generating an Ambisonics representation (Anm(t)), where the pressure distribution on the surface of the sphere is sampled by the capsules of the array. The impact of the microphones on the captured sound field is removed using the inverse microphone transfer function. The equalisation of the transfer function of the microphone array is a big problem because the reciprocal of the transfer function causes high gains for small values in the transfer function and these small values are affected by transducer noise. The invention minimises that noise by using a Wiener filter processing in the frequency domain, which processing is automatically controlled per wave number by the signal-to-noise ratio of the microphone array.
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