Abstract:
A noise eliminating apparatus includes a first microphone, a second microphone and a signal processing unit, the signal processing unit includes a linear prediction filter and a noise resynthesis filter, the linear prediction filter receives an output signal of the first microphone, predicts the output signal of the first microphone by linear prediction and generates a prediction signal, and the noise resynthesis filter is an adaptive filter which receives, as a main input signal, a first difference signal obtained by subtracting one of the output signal of the first microphone and the prediction signal from the other, receives, as an error signal, a second difference signal obtained by subtracting one of an output signal of the second microphone and an output signal of the noise resynthesis filter itself from the other, and updates a filter coefficient so that the error signal is minimized.
Abstract:
A navigation method for guiding a user from a present position to a destination position includes inputting the present position and the destination position, inputting data from a geographic database and a road network database and selecting a route from the present position to the destination position, determining particularity of route guide map according to the area and the density of data representing the selected route, selecting necessary data for guiding a user according to the particularity and generating the route guide map, inputting data corresponding to the area from a spatial object network database and generating route guide sentence with respect to the route guide map, and manipulating information in the route guide map and route guide sentence and outputting the manipulated information.
Abstract:
A tire having a rotation timing indication hole of the invention has a rotation timing indication hole comprising a multi-step hole provided in a tire tread, and respective steps of the hole have different contours from each other. Since the contour of the hole changes when the tire is worn, the rotation timing of the tire can be recognized.
Abstract:
A tire having a rotation timing indication hole of the invention has a rotation timing indication hole comprising a multi-step hole provided in a tire tread, and respective steps of the hole have different contours from each other. Since the contour of the hole changes when the tire is worn, the rotation timing of the tire can be recognized.
Abstract:
A voice switch in a hands-free communications system performs selective attenuation with respect to respective voice signals being transmitted and received in respective transmitting and receiving paths, the transmitted voice signal having been converted from an audible voice by a microphone connected to the transmitting path and the received voice signal having been converted by a loudspeaker to an audible voice output. A detector selectively detects a currently transmitted voice signal at a normal level, a currently received voice signal at a normal level, and drops in the respective levels thereof to nil levels and provides corresponding outputs to a controller. When one of the transmitted and received voice signals is of a normal level and the detector newly detects the other thereof at a normal level, the controller selectively attenuates that other, newly-detected normal level voice signal. Further, when a current voice signal of a normal level drops to a nil level and, within a selected time interval, resumes its normal level and also the other voice signal is newly detected at a normal level, the controller preferentially attenuates the newly detected voice signal such that the resumed normal level voice signal is preferentially processed.
Abstract:
An estimation apparatus predicts filter coefficients for an adaptive filter, the response of which emulates the signal transmission characteristics of a known signal. The response thereto is sent to a signal transmission system of unknown characteristics, enabling execution of calculations without invalidating coefficient updating, even when there is a limit on the word length for processings. To achieve this, a sum of products calculation unit calculates the sum of products of the residual difference in response and the signal which is sent to the signal transmission system. A sum of squares calculating unit calculates the sum of the squares of the signal sent to the signal transmission system over a prescribed period of time. An updating amount calculation unit calculates the filter coefficient updating amounts from the ratio of the results from the sum of the products calculating unit to the results of the sum of the squares calculating unit. Filter coefficients are updated using the coefficient updating amounts calculated by the updating amount calculation unit.
Abstract:
A speaking apparatus having a handfree conversation function, provided with an echo canceler which can cancel the echo caused by direct acoustic coupling between a speaker and a microphone positioned in a system having a casing, a ground surface and a speech switching circuit. In the apparatus, the amount of insertion attenuation of the transmitted and received signal is set with an upper limit of the amount of attenuation sufficient for cancelling the echo caused by the indirect acoustic coupling determined by the location where the speaking apparatus is used. In addition, the echo canceler and the speech switching circuit share optimum functions to obtain an excellent speaking quality apparatus with an inexpensive and small sized processing circuit.
Abstract:
A method for detecting a transition of an echo path used for an estimation of the transfer function of a system by using an adaptive filter, from an echo caused by a signal transmitted through an input terminal of the system at which the response of the transmitted signal is received. The method includes the steps of calculating the amount of the whole or the first delay portion of an impulse response of the system, calculating the amount of the remaining delay portion of the impulse response of the system, calculating the ratio between the amount of the whole or the first delay portion of the impulse response and the amount of the remaining delay portion of the impulse response, and deciding an occurrence of a transition of the characteristics of the system based on the calculated ratio. The transition of the characteristics of the system is discriminated from a hindering signal produced in the system in the decision making process.
Abstract:
An active noise control apparatus for transmitting, from a loud speaker, a secondary noise synthesized so as to have the same amplitude as and the opposite phase to a primary noise and for canceling the noise by acoustically overlapping the secondary noise. An overall system filter for simulating a characteristic of an overall system leading to an error detecting microphone from a noise detecting microphone is provided for the first and the second overall system filter. A second and a first noise control filter are connected to the first and the second overall system filter in cascade to form a noise control filter. A coefficient of an estimating noise transfer system filter, obtained when the difference between the differential output of both obtained when a white noise is applied to the circuit of cascade connections and the response difference of the first and the second overall system filter from a differential overall system filter becomes a minimum, is made the coefficient of the noise control filter.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus of determining the transfer characteristic in an active-noise-control system, which involves generating white noise at an end of a one-dimensional sound field that is defined by a linear ventilating system in which sound travels essentially parallel to the extended direction of the system; equalizing the transfer characteristic of the one-dimensional sound field and generating cancelling sound, according to an inverse of the transfer characteristic, to cancel the white noise and prevent noise being output from the other end of the one-dimensional sound field; continuously preventing the noise output and measuring the characteristic data of the one-dimensional sound field at, at least, one measuring point in the one-dimensional sound field; and calculating the transfer function of the one-dimensional sound field in the noise-output-prevented state, according to the characteristic data of the sound field.