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Number: 367/119
Name: Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices > Distance or direction finding > With beam steering, scanning, or focussing
Description: Subject matter in which directional characteristics of the receiver are controlled so that the directions of optimal reception are varied or concentrated.


Sub-classes under this class:

Class Number Class Name Patents
367/121 By electrical means 32
367/120 By transducer movement 39


Patents under this class:
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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7613310 Audio input system Nov. 3, 2009
7606114 Systems and methods implementing frequency-steered acoustic arrays for 2D and 3D imaging Oct. 20, 2009
7599253 Hybrid pressure and vector sensor towed array Oct. 6, 2009
7494469 Connection apparatus and method for controlling an ultrasound probe Feb. 24, 2009
7491172 Connection apparatus and method for controlling an ultrasound probe Feb. 17, 2009
7471798 Microphone array having a second order directional pattern Dec. 30, 2008
7415117 System and method for beamforming using a microphone array Aug. 19, 2008
7408841 System and method for calculating the directivity index of a passive acoustic array Aug. 5, 2008
7391872 Parametric audio system Jun. 24, 2008
7109918 Nonlinear beam forming and beam shaping aperture system Sep. 19, 2006
7106658 Navigation system and method using directional sensor Sep. 12, 2006
6999378 Parallel GCS structure for adaptive beamforming under equalization constraints Feb. 14, 2006
6980485 Automatic camera tracking using beamforming Dec. 27, 2005
6922206 Videoconferencing system with horizontal and vertical microphone arrays Jul. 26, 2005
6914854 Method for detecting extended range motion and counting moving objects using an acoustics microphone array Jul. 5, 2005
6894642 Doubly constrained robust capon beamformer May. 17, 2005
6885612 Panoramic audio device for passive sonar Apr. 26, 2005
6868043 Beam broadening with maximum power in array transducers Mar. 15, 2005
6868042 Data-based signal definition for frequency domain adaptive beamforming algorithms Mar. 15, 2005
6856577 Method and apparatus for forming a reception beam Feb. 15, 2005
6847588 Method for changing the frequency for sampling sonar wavefronts Jan. 25, 2005
6839303 Matched filter, receiving beam-forming apparatus and sonar system Jan. 4, 2005
6826117 Tracking, safety and navigation system for firefighters Nov. 30, 2004
6822928 Adaptive sonar signal processing method and system Nov. 23, 2004
6798380 Robust capon beamforming Sep. 28, 2004
6798716 System and method for wireless electrical power transmission Sep. 28, 2004
6741713 Directional hearing device May. 25, 2004
6695783 Multiline ultrasound beamformers Feb. 24, 2004
6687188 Underwater telemetry apparatus and method Feb. 3, 2004
6594201 System and method for localizing targets using multiple arrays Jul. 15, 2003
6594367 Super directional beamforming design and implementation Jul. 15, 2003
6580392 Digital beamforming for passive detection of target using reflected jamming echoes Jun. 17, 2003
6504794 Tracking, safety and navigation system for firefighters Jan. 7, 2003
6473362 Narrowband beamformer using nonlinear oscillators Oct. 29, 2002
6445647 Wideband-to-narrowband conversion method and apparatus Sep. 3, 2002
6349791 Submarine bow dome acoustic sensor assembly Feb. 26, 2002
6332028 Dual-processing interference cancelling system and method Dec. 18, 2001
6324290 Method and apparatus for diagnosing sound source and sound vibration source Nov. 27, 2001
6285628 Swept transit beam bathymetric sonar Sep. 4, 2001
6192006 Device for and a method of determining the angle of incidence of a received signal and a scanning sonar Feb. 20, 2001
6192134 System and method for a monolithic directional microphone array Feb. 20, 2001
6181643 Interferometer with a single projector array and a single receiver array Jan. 30, 2001
6160757 Antenna formed of a plurality of acoustic pick-ups Dec. 12, 2000
6154552 Hybrid adaptive beamformer Nov. 28, 2000
6108275 Phased beam transducer Aug. 22, 2000
6104672 General fluctuation sensitive filter Aug. 15, 2000
6097670 Method and apparatus for tracking objects underwater Aug. 1, 2000
6058075 System for canceling interferers from broadband active sonar signals using adaptive beamforming methods May. 2, 2000
6009045 Advanced vertical array beamformer Dec. 28, 1999
5930201 Acoustic vector sensing sonar system Jul. 27, 1999

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