Patent ID: 8526644

Claim:
A beamforming system comprising a modular transducer assembly (MTA) composed of a plurality of transducer modules (TM 1 , TM 2 , TM 3 ), a transducer module (TM) comprising a plurality of interfaces (IF 1 , IF 2 , IF 3 , IF 4 ) having different geometrical orientations, an interface allowing the transducer module to be physically coupled to another transducer module, the beamforming system being arranged to carry out: a reconnaissance phase (SY 2 , SY 3 ) in which the transducer modules that are present in the modular transducer assembly are identified by the system, and a structure in accordance with which the transducer modules have been physically coupled to each other is identified by the system; and a configuration phase (SY 4 -SY 8 ) in which a signal relationship (Hx) is determined by the system between the transducer modules on the basis of identification data including information about the transducer modules and their geometric position within the structure of the modular transducer assembly that has been obtained in the reconnaissance phase and on the basis of a desired directional response pattern.