Patent ID: 9560463
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G10L,H04R

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing device, a plurality of sound signals captured at a plurality of microphone sensors, wherein the plurality of sound signals are from a sound source, and wherein a number (M) of the plurality of microphone sensors is greater than three; determining a number (K) of layers for a multistage minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer based on the number (M) of the plurality of microphone sensors, wherein the number (K) of layers is greater than one, and wherein each layer of the multistage MVDR beamformer comprises one or more mini-length MVDR beamformers; and executing the multistage MVDR beamformer to the plurality of sound signals to calculate an estimate of the sound source.