IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
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Maximum Focusing Range for Focused Sound Source Reproduction in a Short-Aperture Array Loudspeaker
Seokjin LEEHee-Suk PANG
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2015 Volume E98.A Issue 2 Pages 654-664

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Recently, array speaker products have received attention in the field of consumer electronics, and control technologies for arrayed speaker units, including beamforming and wave field synthesis (WFS), have been developed for various purposes. An important application of these algorithms is focused source reproduction. The focused source reproduction capability is strongly coupled with the array length. The array length is a very important design factor in consumer products, but it is very short in home entertainment systems, compared with ideal WFS systems or theater speaker systems. Therefore, a well-defined measure for the maximum focusing range is necessary for designing an array speaker product. In this paper, a maximum focusable range measure is proposed and is analyzed by simulation of a small array speaker. The analysis results show that the proposed maximum focusable range has properties strongly related to the capability for focused source reproduction.

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