Global Patent Index - EP 1114412 A1

EP 1114412 A1 20010711 - IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO BEAMFORMERS

Title (en)

IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO BEAMFORMERS

Title (de)

VERBESSERUNGEN UND STRAHLERZEUGER

Title (fr)

AMELIORATIONS CONCERNANT DES FORMEURS DE FAISCEAUX

Publication

EP 1114412 A1 20010711 (EN)

Application

EP 99946357 A 19990915

Priority

  • GB 9903075 W 19990915
  • GB 9819973 A 19980915

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO0016308A1] A self compensating wideband beamformer is disclosed which is adapted to process a number of input channels of sampled data to produce a set of output beams. The beamformer comprises a number of identical processing units which operate on the input data in parallel to form a set of partial scans which are recombined to produce the final set of beams. The beamformer is self compensating to overcome the effect of malfunctioning sensors and changes in array geometry, and can be easily reconfigured for use with different types and sizes of arrays.

IPC 1-7

G10K 11/34

IPC 8 full level

G01S 7/523 (2006.01); G10K 11/34 (2006.01); H04R 1/44 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G10K 11/341 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 0016308A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0016308 A1 20000323; AU 5877099 A 20000403; EP 1114412 A1 20010711; GB 9819973 D0 19981104; JP 2002525584 A 20020813

DOCDB simple family (application)

GB 9903075 W 19990915; AU 5877099 A 19990915; EP 99946357 A 19990915; GB 9819973 A 19980915; JP 2000570764 A 19990915