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- This invention relates to the field of sound controllers, and in particular to an adaptive feedforward active noise control method.
- the signal derived from H 1 ( ⁇ ) is applied to an adaptive FIR filter W, which applies an antinoise signal via transfer function H 2 to a summer ⁇ , to which the acoustic signal to be controlled is also applied.
- the summer is actually the cavity in front of and in the region of the transducer 7 within the duct 1, while in the system of Figure 4, the summer is the region within the cup 11 particularly between the earphone 19 and the ear canal 17.
- the antinoise signal from H 2 output from FIR filter W passing via transfer functions H 2 (and H a in Figure 4), is added to the acoustic signal so as to cancel it.
- the output signals of A/D converters 25A and 25B are subjected to an interface delay 27A and 27B, and from the interface delays the signals are filtered in decimation filters 29A and 29B.
- the interface delays 27A, 27B and 39 are dependent on the hardware implementations of the active noise control system, which is taken to include any phase delay in the low pass filters 23A, 23B and 43, and is commonly related to the sampling time interval.
- a variable, reciprocal gain and fixed-ratio gain arrangement can be made by means of linear amplifiers having automatic gain control signal paths, as for example channels 1, 2 and 3 illustrated in Figure 11.
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Claims (12)
- Procédé de régulation de bruit pour un signal acoustique, comprenant les opérations suivantes :(a) obtenir un signal de référence du signal acoustique à réguler,(b) appliquer un signal d'anti-bruit (ou bruit annulant) au signal acoustique afin de réguler le signal acoustique,(c) obtenir un signal d'erreur en résultat de l'application du signal d'anti-bruit au signal acoustique,(d) produire ledit signal d'antlbruit à partir dudit signal de référence en faisant passer le signal de référence dans un premier filtre dont les coefficients sont ajustables,(e) ajuster les coefficients du filtre en traitant le signal d'erreur et une représentation modifiée du signal de référence et produire un signal d'ajustement de coefficients de façon à produire le signal d'anti-bruit,(f) appliquer le signal d'ajustement des coefficients au premier filtre, et(g) suréchantillonner le signal de référence et le signal d'erreur et ajuster les coefficients du premier filtre, puis produire le signal d'anti-bruit, en ne traitant qu'une fraction décimée des échantillons suréchantillonnés des signaux de référence et d'erreur, ladite fraction étant d'un quart ou moins, et en appliquant ledit signal d'anti-bruit au signal acoustique à la fréquence dudit suréchantillonnage.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, comportant l'utilisation d'un modèle à réponse impulsionnelle finie, noté modèle FIR, d'un trajet de signal qui part de l'emplacement du signal d'anti-bruit pour aller à l'emplacement du signal d'erreur, afin d'obtenir ladite représentation modifiée du signal de référence, dans lequel modèle les coefficients de filter hl satisfont la condition : où i=1, 2, 3, ... N, et où N est le nombre total de coefficients de filtre.
- Procédé selon la revendication 2, comportant l'utilisation d'un modèle simplifié d'un trajet de signal qui part de l'emplacement du signal d'anti-bruit pour aller à l'emplacement du signal d'erreur afin d'obtenir ladite représentation modifiée du signal de référence.
- Procédé selon la revendication 2, où le modèle à réponse impulsionnelle du trajet d'erreur est tronqué.
- Procédé selon la revendication 2, où le modèle à réponse impulsionnelle du trajet d'erreur est synthétisé.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, comportant une conformation de fréquence analogique d'ordre Inférieur d'au moins un signal pris entre le signal de référence et le signal d'erreur avant le traitement, et du signal d'anti-bruit après le traitement.
- Procédé selon la revendication 6, comportant une conformation de fréquence analogique d'ordre inférieur qui utilise des filtres acoustiques passe-bas d'ordre inférieur.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, comportant l'opération qui consiste à faire varier le gain des trajets du signal de référence (X), du signal d'anti-bruit (U) et du signal d'erreur (E) de façon que l'impulsion du trajet d'erreur reste inchangée.
- Procédé selon la revendication 8, comportant l'opération qui consiste à faire varier le gain des trajets du signal de référence (X), du signal d'anti-bruit (U) et du signal d'erreur (E) de façon que le rapport des gains des signaux X/E reste inchangé.
- Procédé selon la revendication 8, comportant l'opération qui consiste à faire varier le gain des trajets du signal de référence (X), du signal d'anti-bruit (U) et du signal d'erreur (E) de façon que le produit des gains des signaux E et U reste inchangé.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, comportant l'opération qui consiste à faire varier le gain des trajets du signal de référence (X), du signal d'anti-bruit (U) et du signal d'erreur (E) de façon que le produit des gains des signaux E et U et le rapport des gains des signaux X/E restent inchangés.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, où la fréquence de suréchantillonnage est d'environ 40 kHz ou moins.
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