Variable accuracy computing system
    31.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11693626B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-04

    申请号:US15931860

    申请日:2020-05-14

    Inventor: John Paul Lesso

    CPC classification number: G06F7/523 G06G7/16 G06F2207/382

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computing system. The computing system comprises a data input configured to receive an input data signal, a computation unit having an input coupled with the data input, the computation unit being operative to apply a weight to a signal received at its input to generate a weighted output signal, and a controller. The controller is configured to monitor a parameter of the input signal and/or a parameter of the output signal and to issue a control signal to the computation unit to control a level of accuracy of the weighted output signal based at least in part on the monitored parameter.

    On-ear transition detection
    32.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11689871B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-27

    申请号:US17396974

    申请日:2021-08-09

    Inventor: John P. Lesso

    CPC classification number: H04R29/001 H04R2400/01 H04R2460/03

    Abstract: The disclosure relates in general to on-ear transition detection, and in particular to on-ear transition detection circuitry comprising: a monitoring unit operable to monitor a speaker current flowing through a speaker and/or a speaker voltage induced across the speaker, and to generate a monitor signal indicative of the speaker current and/or the speaker voltage; and an event detector operable to detect a qualifying disturbance in a sensor signal indicative of a qualifying pressure change incident on the speaker caused by the speaker transitioning from an on-ear state to an off-ear state or vice versa, wherein the sensor signal is, or is derived from, the monitor signal.

    Driver circuitry
    34.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10828672B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-10

    申请号:US16369556

    申请日:2019-03-29

    Abstract: Driver circuitry for driving an electromechanical load with a drive output signal based on a digital reference signal at a first sample rate, the drive output signal inducing a first electrical quantity at the electromechanical load, the driver circuitry comprising: a function block configured, based on said first electrical quantity, to digitally determine at a second sample rate higher than the first sample rate an adjustment signal indicative of a second electrical quantity which would be induced at a target output impedance of the driver circuitry due to said first electrical quantity; and a driver configured to generate the drive output signal based on the reference signal and the adjustment signal to cause the drive output signal to behave as if an output impedance of the driver circuitry has been adjusted to comprise the target output impedance, wherein the first electrical quantity is a current and the second electrical quantity is a voltage, or vice versa.

    Pulse-width modulation
    36.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10826478B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-03

    申请号:US16735297

    申请日:2020-01-06

    Inventor: Toru Ido

    Abstract: This application relates to digital PWM modulation. A PWM modulator (400, 1100) has a PWM generator (402) configured to receive pulse width data (PWidth) and to output a PWM signal (SPWM) comprising a plurality of repeating PWM cycle periods, in which the duration of any pulse of the PWM signal in each PWM cycle period is based on the pulse width data. The PWM generator is configured to synchronise the PWM cycle periods, and the start and end of any PWM pulse, to a received first clock signal. The PWM generator is operable to generate pulses that have a positional error from a centred position within the PWM cycle period and a pulse position controller (403) is configured to control the position of a pulse in a PWM cycle period so as to at least partly compensate for the positional error of one or more preceding pulses.

    Active noise cancellation (ANC) system with selectable sample rates

    公开(公告)号:US10810990B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-20

    申请号:US16261775

    申请日:2019-01-30

    Abstract: An active noise cancellation (ANC) system including a selectable decimation rate decimator that receives an oversampled digital input and has an input that selects the decimation rate, a filter that receives an output of the decimator, and a selectable interpolation rate interpolator that receives an output of the filter and has an input that selects the interpolation rate. The selectable decimation rate decimator and the selectable interpolation rate interpolator operate to provide a selectable sample rate for the filter based on the selected decimation and interpolation rates. The filter may be an anti-noise filter, feedback filter, and/or a filter that models an acoustic transfer function of the ANC system. Rate selection may be static, or dynamically controlled based on battery or ambient noise level. A ratio of the decimation rate and the interpolation rate is fixed independent of the dynamically controlled decimation and interpolation rates.

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