US20110015769A1 - Data transfer method and system for loudspeakers in a digital sound reproduction system - Google Patents

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US20110015769A1 US12/922,078 US92207808A US2011015769A1 US 20110015769 A1 US20110015769 A1 US 20110015769A1 US 92207808 A US92207808 A US 92207808A US 2011015769 A1 US2011015769 A1 US 2011015769A1
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    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
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  • the present invention relates to a data transfer method according to the preamble of Claim 1 .
  • the invention also relates to a data transfer system.
  • the invention is intended to eliminate some defects of the state of the art disclosed above and for this purpose create an entirely new type of method and apparatus for data transfer in a sound reproduction system.
  • the invention is based on implementing network packet time stamping in network protocol stack so that accurate time for send and receipt of packets can be determined.
  • the receiver software implements the time stamping directly in the Ethernet driver (for which we have source code) for the most accurate operation possible.
  • the second problem is preferably solved simply by running the clock synchronization, which includes determination of round-trip time between host and receiver, and performing the synchronization only if the latency is within acceptable range from measured minimum latency.
  • the method according to the invention is characterized by what is stated in the characterizing portion of Claim 1 .
  • the system according to the invention is, in turn, characterized by what is stated in the characterizing portion of Claim 6 .
  • the present invention is especially suitable for multi channel sound reproduction systems, where along the same data transfer path is sent a data stream including audio information of multiple audio channels to be reproduced simultaneously in several loudspeakers.
  • a statistical latency time may be defined in a start-up procedure and use this value as a reference latency time for further, continuous latency measurement.
  • the audio reproduction system may adapt to the load of the network and make suitable adjustments in order to maintain high quality and synchronized multi-channel audio reproduction in most of the load variation cases.
  • FIG. 1 shows a block diagram a digital audio system, which can be used in connection with the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows as a block diagram one network management host system in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 3 shows as a block diagram one receiver management system according to the invention.
  • FIG. 4 shows as a timing diagram a method in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 6 shows as a flow chart a synchronization protocol in the receiver in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 7 shows as a flow chart a synchronization protocol in the host in accordance with the invention.
  • latency means the network delay between two network elements for a data sample.
  • the system in accordance with the invention comprises at least one host computer 1 or host data source for controlling the system and several receivers 1 connected to the host computers 1 via en digital network 3 comprising the signal path 3 formed by cables, connectors, network adapters and switches etc.
  • the LSNW (Loudspeaker network) system consist of one or more hosts 1 that each manage sets of receiver devices 2 .
  • Hosts 1 act as source of management, control and audio data to the receivers 2 .
  • Hosts 1 are responsible for discovering receivers 2 connected to IP-network, managing groups 4 of receivers and providing them with audio.
  • Receivers 2 respond to commands and playback audio data from hosts 1 .
  • the host system comprises typically hard disc 10 by which Digital audio data may be stored. Also some other non-volatile medium like flash memory can be used.
  • Digital audio data may be acquired from virtual software audio adapter (driver) 12 that redirects audio to networked loudspeakers.
  • Audio data manager 13 acquires digital audio data and makes it suitable for streaming.
  • Streaming and synchronization manager 14 controls clock synchronization of loudspeaker devices (receivers) currently controlled by the host.
  • Network interface 15 connects the host to computer communications network.
  • Network timestamp-module 16 manages accurate timing of synchronization related network traffic. This is required to reduce effects of random latencies introduced by the non real-time operating system (such as Windows, Linux etc.) run by the host.
  • System clock 17 provides accurate time information used by the synchronization manager and a standard Ethernet network 3 enables IP-based communications between the host and the receivers.
  • Host application manages the loudspeaker network, routes management information from GLM and audio from audio software to receivers.
  • Host application will run as a background daemon process on the host computer. On windows platform, these background processes are usually referred as services or system services.
  • Host provides interface for GLM software to send and receive GLM-messages to receivers as if the GLM Software was using GLM network.
  • Host software will provide standard audio interface for audio software to send audio to LSNW receivers. Such interfaces are for example ASIO and Windows audio.
  • the audio software will see LSNW receivers as channels in virtual audio interface provided by the host.
  • Host will include proprietary kernel-mode driver software to provide necessary virtual audio interface and UDP Network interface 20 connects the receiver to communications network 3 .
  • Timer hardware 22 provides time information for the system clock and synchronization controller.
  • Adjustable oscillator 23 provides clock signal for timer hardware and audio data output controller 28 .
  • Loudspeaker networks communications module 24 manages network traffic to and from host computer.
  • Synchronization controller 25 synchronizer receivers clock with host. It adjusts clock oscillator in order to minimize clock drift between receiver and host clocks.
  • Digital signal processing, digital-to-analog conversion takes place in block 26 .
  • Audio stream controller 27 manages audio data received from host and feeds it to audio data output controller 28 .
  • Audio data output controller 28 outputs audio data at rate specified by adjustable oscillator 23 . This guarantees that samples will be output at same rate as host outputs them.
  • Sample rate converter 29 converts digital audio to internal sample rate used by digital signal processing and digital-to-analog conversion.
  • the LSNW protocol has mechanism for clock synchronization that enables synchronization of host and receiver clock within accuracy of about 10-20 microseconds.
  • the solution to the travel time (latency) measurement is to implement network packet time stamping in network protocol stack so that accurate time for send and receipt of packets can be determined.
  • the time stamping is implemented as an IP Packet Filter that examines incoming and outgoing UDP-packets and record time stamps if packet is destined to or originates from an LSNW receiver. This location is not optimal for time stamping, as the time stamps should be collected as near the network hardware as possible, but experience shows that time stamping at the IP Packet Filter lever gives good accuracy.
  • the receiver software in accordance with the invention implements the time stamping directly in the Ethernet driver for the most accurate operation possible.
  • a source code has been developed in connection with the invention.
  • the problem of random variation of network latency can be solved simply by running the clock synchronization, which includes determination of round-trip time between host and receiver, and performing the synchronization only if the latency is within acceptable range from measured minimum latency.
  • Clock synchronization is initiated by the host in accordance with FIG. 4 .
  • the host 1 will synchronize clocks with each group member in a round-robin fashion to guarantee all receivers have accurate time.
  • a receiver may send SYNCH REQUEST message to host if it feels a need to resynchronize its clock. This can happen for example if receiver must interrupt audio stream due to packet loss and continues it when audio packets are received.
  • the host When a receiver 2 is assigned to a group, the host will send several ECHO REQ packets 60 to receiver to probe the roundtrip latency. The receiver 2 will reply with ECHO RESP 61 and the host 1 will then determine roundtrip latency Tt 1 ⁇ Tt 2 for each transaction. Once the roundtrip latency Tt 1 ⁇ Tt 2 is determined with adequate accuracy, the host 1 will set the minimum acceptable roundtrip for successful synchronization. The latency will also change as the function of packet size, so the latency is probed for packets of different sizes.
  • the actual roundtrip latency is measured as follows:
  • ECHO RESP 61 packet contains two values, receivers clock at the time Tt 1 of receipt of ECHO REQ 60 packet and ProcessingLatency, the time spent by receiver between receipt of ECHO REQ 60 and sending of ECHO RESP 61 .
  • the host 1 will calculate the roundtrip latency as is initialization phase and if the latency is below the maximum acceptable value determined in initialization, host sends the CLOCK SET message 62 to receiver 2 that contains an estimate of hosts clock at the time receiver received the ECHO REQ 61 packet.
  • the estimated time is calculated by adding half of the measured roundtrip time to time of outputting the ECHO REQ 61 packet.
  • the protocol assumes that the network latency from host to receiver is equal to latency from receiver to host. This is usually the case, but the roundtrip will become unsymmetrical when ECHO REQ is appended to audio data as packet that contains ECHO REQ and audio data is much larger than the response packet that contains only ECHO RESP. This unsymmetry can be compensated by appending extra data to ECHO RESP to make the response packet same size as the request. In real applications, the unsymmetry of network packet sizes does not have very large effect on the actual result of the synchronization.
  • the effect of unsymmetric network latency to offsets between host and receiver clocks can be calculated as follows (for simplicity, the calculation does not include processing latency):
  • host and receiver clocks have 2 second offset at host time 10.000000 s (Th 1 ).
  • Synch protocol packet latencies are 0.000160 s from host to receiver (Th 1 ⁇ Tt 1 ) 60, 0.000180 s from receiver to host 61 (Tt 2 ⁇ Th 2 ). This will result in 0.000010 s clock offset at the end of synchronization, assuming that receivers clock does not significantly drift from host clock between target time 12.000160 and 12.000710.
  • Receiver 2 may also correct frequency of its clock based on the measured offsets and reduce average error between target and host clocks.
  • receiver initializes hardware, possibly acquires IP address via DHCP and enters Idle state.
  • the receiver receives SET GROUP command from host.
  • the message contains IP address of multicast group to which all the loudspeaker group related traffic is sent.
  • the message also contains information on which channel of multi-channel audio the receiver is to output to digital-to-analog conversion.
  • Receiver starts to listen to the multicast address. It also sends message to host and acknowledges that the receiver has entered the group.
  • Receiver enters state 92 , RUNNING.
  • receiver will receive message directed to loudspeaker group multicast IP address. Audio data is entered into play queue and eventually output to digital-to-analog conversion.
  • receiver receives REQUEST TIMESTAMP message it enters state 97 , SEND TIMESTAMP TO HOST. If receiver receives SET CLOCK message it enters state 93 . In block 93 validity of new clock value is determined based on current time, estimate of clock drift between host and receiver and time interval since last SET CLOCK message. If the new value appears invalid (due to large processing latency in host or some other reason), receiver clock is not set and control returns to state 92 , RUNNING. If the new clock value appears valid, state 94 , ADJUST OSCILLATOR, is entered. Control voltage to adjustable oscillator is set in block 94 based on the measured drift and between host and receiver clocks and the current control voltage.
  • host application in block 100 host application is started. It queries network for available receiver loudspeakers and enters IDLE state.
  • Host application receives command from user interface to setup a receiver loudspeaker group. It starts analyzing network latency to each loudspeaker.
  • if analysis was not successful report error to user and return to IDLE state. Analysis may not succeed for example if the packet loss in the network is too large. If analysis of network latencies to each receiver is successful store maximal acceptable synchronization network latency for each receiver and enter state 103 , RUNNING.
  • running state 103 the system periodically synchronizes receiver loudspeaker clocks.
  • timestamp request is sent to receiver. If reply is not received within given period, the system returns to running state and retries the synchronization. If the synchronization fails several times consecutively, the system marks receiver loudspeaker as inactive and removes it from the group of active receivers.
  • TIMESTAMP is received from receiver, system enters to state 105 .
  • the system determines network latency for the synchronization transaction. If it is above the maximum acceptable synchronization network latency determined in 101 , the system enters state 108 . If the latency is below acceptable maximum, the system enters to state 106 . In state 106 system sends SET CLOCK message to receiver.
  • the system enters to state 102 , RUNNING. If time elapsed since last analysis is too large, the system reanalyzes network latency to receiver to detect if network latency has been permanently reduced by entering to state 101 . In block 108 , if more than given number of consecutive synchronization transactions have network latency larger than the acceptable maximum, the system performs latency analysis in order to determine permanent growth of network latency.
  • the proposed synchronization method can principally be utilized also in wireless audio applications, said, wireless loudspeaker systems.
  • the network latencies are considerably larger than in wired 100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps Ethernet networks.
  • the synchronization protocol can adapt to this increased latency as it analyses networks behavior during the setup phase.
  • Standard wireless networks also introduce random latency in order to prevent collisions during packet transmissions. These random delays make the synchronization in wireless networks more difficult that in Ethernet based wired networks.
  • the effects of said random delays can be reduced by selecting the acceptable maximum network latency using more strict percentage value than when operating in wired networks. If percentage of 30% is used instead of 90%, only transactions with less random delay will be used for clock synchronization. This modification means that each clock synchronization requires on average 3 ECHO REQUEST/ECHO REPLY transactions before acceptable values are acquired for SET CLOCK command.
  • Wireless networks also typically have much larger packet loss than Ethernet—based wired networks due to radio interference and collisions during packet transmissions.
  • FEC Forward Error Correction
  • encoding may be used to add redundancy in transmitted audio data. This redundancy may be used by receiver to reconstruct the audio packets lost by the network.

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