Systems and methods for remote multi-directional bark deterrence

A method comprising,

• one or more applications running on at least one processor for providing,
• receiving at least one signal through a microphone array;
• using information of the at least one signal to detect a sound event, the detecting the sound event including determining a sound event bearing, wherein the sound event bearing comprises an angle from a reference line to a direction of the sound event;
• selecting one or more transducers using the sound event bearing and transducer bearing information of the one or more transducers, wherein each transducer of the one or more transducers is configured to deliver a correction signal along an axis, wherein the axis comprises a transducer beam spread axis, wherein the transducer bearing information includes a transducer bearing for each transducer of the one or more transducers, wherein a transducer bearing comprises an angle from a transducer beam spread axis to the reference line;
• instructing the selected one or more transducers to deliver a correction signal.

An apparatus comprising,

• a microphone array and a plurality of transducers, the microphone array and the plurality of transducers communicatively coupled with at least one processor;
• the microphone array for receiving at least one signal;
• the plurality of transducers configured to deliver a correction signal;
• one or more applications running on the at least one processor for using information of the at least one signal to detect a sound event, the detecting the sound event including determining a sound event bearing, wherein the sound event bearing comprises an angle from a reference line to a direction of the sound event, the detecting the sound event including instructing the plurality of transducers to direct a correction signal in a direction of the sound event bearing, wherein the plurality of transducers comprises a linear phased array of transducers, wherein the instructing the plurality of transducers to deliver the correction signal comprises selecting a correction signal phase difference between the transducers of the linear phased array to direct a majority of the corrections signal'sound energy along the sound event bearing.