Systems and methods for inverted beamforming
US9375197B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 16, 2013 |
| Grant date | Jun 28, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 17, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S15/8915
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Systems and methods for time-delay inverted beamforming are provided. One method includes sampling, substantially uniformly in time, a set of continuous-time element signals to form a set of sampled element signals and mapping, for each sampled element signal, one or more samples substantially equally spaced in time to one or more samples non-equally spaced in time corresponding to the respective contribution of each element signal to a continuous-time beamsum signal. The method also includes forming a beamsum signal sampled substantially uniformly in time from the non-uniformly spaced, mapped samples corresponding to each sampled element signal.
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