Example: focusing a point source
There are two strategies for designing the inverse matrix: local and general. With local strategy, we take into account separately the kth set of responses, and we are not worried about how the system will respond to the other P possible sources.
So we can invert separately each of these N responses, so that:
(Dirac’s delta function)
Once these N inverse filters are computed (for example, employing the Nelson/Kirkeby method), the output of the microphone array, focused on the kth point source, will be simply: