http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/ ... d-stadium/

Pretty impressive!

"Did you notice the bubble-gum? " :)

PS. The wave-length used in 3G & 4G has about the same wavelength as a human speech in air (at least in the same decade), so it's also nice to use for electromagnetic wave's to achieve nice SNR from the base-station to the cell-phone. DS

Whoooo, that's just too cool. :ugeek:

Wk

It's probably something you could do on XMOS. I don't know about 300+ mics, might need multiple G4s for that. It would depend on the analogue stage and how it was set up... It would probably need very high bitrate sampling to do the time shifting of the traces effectively, but the issue is also one of managing that many I/O lines. The precision of the design of the array itself and the microphone elements must be pretty impressive.

You do not need a hi sampling-rate, you can shift the signal by any degree since it's bandlimited. Things do not end up in just addition and a time-shift, it ends up in FIR filters which describes the propagation path.

E.g. shifting can be done by the convolution by the actual signal and a sinc.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_theorem

Good point, I was thinking in terms of whole-sample shifts to reduce the filtering required. Even then you'd need to do post-processing, so there's filtering required regardless.

I do not have any special knowledge about this special device, but in general there is several reasons to use FIR-filters/FFT filtering. The market-department usually talk about "subtraction and delays" independent of the technical solution ;)




From http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/fileadmin/users/gerhard/eusipco06_doblinger.pdf


Some even heavier device


And you can of course do it the other way around; as a transmitter


This one, seems to use 128 loudspeakers to create Wave-Field Synthesis

Lilltroll, please take a look at "phased arrays" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array, they have about 100 years.

I am quite surprised that phased array principles were applied to sound propagation just now (may be I am just not aware of earlier works in sound phased arrays).

Beamforming is a related technique, it's often used in sonars. I got a lot of electret microphones to try the technique out, I was intending to mount them in holes in a strip of wood.

It's also used in many/most medical ultrasound systems, either physical beam forming or shifting of the digital signals.