Patent ID: 6901421

Claim:
A method for processing digital data from an array of i receiver elements, wherein the digital data comprises t time samples of receiver data for each receiver element, and wherein n represents each time sample, the method comprising: providing the digital data from the array of receiver elements, wherein the digital data from the array comprises receiver data, x(n), and wherein the receiver data x(n) comprises receiver data x l (n) for each receiver element in the array; providing an impulse response vector h(w) including l coefficients corresponding to a length l low pass filter, wherein w represents each coefficient; representing the receiver data x(n) as a plurality of vectorized data matrices vx, and the impulse response vector h(w) as a plurality of vectorized response matrices vh; and signal conditioning the digital data x(n) based upon vectorized data matrices vx and the vectorized response matrices vh to thereby determine a signal conditioning output.