WEARABLE ACTIVE NOISE REDUCTION (ANR) DEVICE HAVING LOW FREQUENCY FEEDBACK LOOP MODULATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220020351A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-20

    申请号:US17488509

    申请日:2021-09-29

    Abstract: Various aspects include a wearable audio device having active noise reduction (ANR), where the ANR device includes: a feedback microphone; an electroacoustic transducer; and a feedback compensator configured to output a noise reduction signal to the electroacoustic transducer in response to a feedback signal from the feedback microphone, wherein the feedback compensator includes a tunable filter that modulates a loop gain in response to an adverse low frequency event being detected in the noise reduction signal outputted from the tunable filter, wherein the tunable filter is configured to maintain a substantially similar loop gain shape near a low frequency cross-over as the low frequency cross-over changes during loop gain modulation.

    Noise estimation using coherence
    12.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10601387B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-24

    申请号:US16171951

    申请日:2018-10-26

    Abstract: The technology described herein can be embodied in a method for estimating a power spectral density of noise, the method including receiving an input signal representing audio captured using a microphone. The input signal includes a first portion that represents acoustic outputs from two or more audio sources, and a second portion that represents a noise component. The method also includes iteratively modifying a frequency domain representation of the input signal, such that the modified frequency domain representation represents a portion of the input signal in which effects due to the first portion are substantially reduced. The method further includes determining, from the modified frequency domain representation, an estimate of a power spectral density of the noise, and generating a control signal configured to adjust one or more gains of an acoustic transducer. The control signal is generated based on the estimate of the power spectral density of the noise.

    Arraying speakers for a uniform driver field

    公开(公告)号:US10199030B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15465968

    申请日:2017-03-22

    Abstract: A method and system for a noise cancellation comprises an amplifier in communication with the three or more speakers disposed in an area. A system controller produces a driver signal for each of the speakers in response to a signal from at least one microphone detecting sound in the area and communicates the driver signals to the amplifier. The amplifier drives each speaker with the driver signal produced for that speaker. In response to the driver signals, the speakers emit sound that combined produces a substantially uniform sound pressure field for a particular zone within the area. The substantially uniform sound pressure field produced by the speakers has a magnitude and phase adapted to attenuate a noise field in the area corresponding to the sound detected by the at least one microphone.

    Real-time detection of conditions in acoustic devices

    公开(公告)号:US10748521B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-18

    申请号:US16445952

    申请日:2019-06-19

    Abstract: This document describes a method that includes receiving a driver signal for an acoustic transducer of an acoustic device. The method also includes receiving a signal from a microphone of the acoustic device, and, processing the driver signal through a filter to provide a reference signal. The filter has a transfer function associated with a condition of the acoustic device. The method also includes comparing the signal to the reference signal to determine whether the signal has a threshold similarity to the reference signal, and, indicating the condition of the acoustic device in respond to the determined threshold similarity.

    NOISE ESTIMATION USING COHERENCE
    20.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190131950A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US16171951

    申请日:2018-10-26

    Abstract: The technology described herein can be embodied in a method for estimating a power spectral density of noise, the method including receiving an input signal representing audio captured using a microphone. The input signal includes a first portion that represents acoustic outputs from two or more audio sources, and a second portion that represents a noise component. The method also includes iteratively modifying a frequency domain representation of the input signal, such that the modified frequency domain representation represents a portion of the input signal in which effects due to the first portion are substantially reduced. The method further includes determining, from the modified frequency domain representation, an estimate of a power spectral density of the noise, and generating a control signal configured to adjust one or more gains of an acoustic transducer. The control signal is generated based on the estimate of the power spectral density of the noise.

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