WO1999004598A1 - Method for electronically selecting the dependency of an output signal from the spatial angle of acoustic signal impingement and hearing aid apparatus - Google Patents
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- the present invention is generically directed on a technique according to which acoustical signals are received by at least two acoustical/electrical converters as e.g. by multidirectional microphones, respective output signals of such converters are electronically computed by an electronic transducer unit so as to generate an output signal which represents the acoustical signals weighted by a spatial characteristic of amplification.
- the output signal represents the received acoustical signal weighted by the spatial amplification characteristic as if reception of the acoustical signals had been done by means of e.g. an antenna with an according reception lobe or beam.
- the present invention is generically directed on an electronically preset, possibly electronically adjusted and tailored reception "lobe”.
- Figure 1 most generically shows such known technique for such "beam forming" on acoustical signals.
- at least two multidirectional acoustical/electrical converters 2 a and 2 b are provided, which both - per se - convert acoustical signal irrespective of their impinging direction ⁇ and thus substantially unweighted with respect to impinging direction ⁇ into first and second electrical output signals A r and A j .
- the output signals A x and A 2 are fed to an electronic transducer unit 3 which generates from the input signals A 1# A 2 an output signal A,,.
- acoustic signals may selectively be am- plified dependent from the fact under which spatial angle ⁇ they impinge, i.e. under which spatial angle the transducer arrangement 2a, 2b "sees” an acoustical source.
- a ⁇ 2A sin ⁇ p p /c.
- Such processing of the output signals of two omnidirectional order converters leads to a first order cardoid weighing func- tion F 1 ( ⁇ ) as shown in Fig. 3.
- F 1 ( ⁇ ) a first order cardoid weighing func- tion
- Fig. 3 By respectively selecting converters with higher order acoustical to electrical conversion characteristic i.e. "lobe" and/or by using more than two converters, higher order - m - weighing functions F m ( ⁇ ) may be realised.
- the distance p p is an important entity as may be seen e.g. from formula (8) and directly determines the resulting amplification/angle dependency.
- Formula (8) may be of no special handicap if such a technique is used for narrow band signal detection or if no serious limits are encountered for geometrically providing the at least two converters at a large mutual physical distance p p .
- the first object of the present invention is reached by provid- ing a method for electronically selecting the dependency of an electric output signal of an electronic transducer unit from spatial direction wherefrom acoustical signals impinge on at least a first and a second acoustical/electrical converter, connected to the inputs of said transducer unit, thereby input- ting first and second electric signals thereto, which comprises the steps of
- the fourth electric signal is selected to be linearly dependent only from one of the first and second electric signals, thereby being preferably directly formed by such first or second electric signal.
- the fourth electric signal is dependent on both first and second electric signals .
- the fourth electric signal has a predetermined or adjustable "lobe" characteristic, i.e. dependency from spatial impinging direction.
- the fourth electric signal is generated by delaying one of the first and second signals and then summing the delayed signal and the other, undelayed signal of said first and second signals.
- the fourth electric signal per se has an ampli- fication to impinging angle dependency and thus defines - as was said - for a "lobe", as an example according to a dependency as was discussed with the help of the figs. 1 to 4.
- the frequency- dependent multiplication factors are selected to be inversely proportional to frequency, at least in a first approximation.
- the real physical distance of the first and second converters be at most 20 mm, whereby the virtual distance, which is at least dependent from the phasing multiplication factor, is selected to be larger than the mutual physical distance of the two converters, in other words dependency of the transducer unit ' s output signal from spatial angle becomes so as if, physically, converters were provided at considerably larger mutual distances than they really are. It goes without saying, that such technique is of very high advantage in any space-restricted applications, as especially in hearing aid applications.
- an acoustical/electrical transducer apparatus comprising at least two acoustical/electrical converters spaced from each other by a predetermined physical distance, whereby the at least two converters generate, respectively, first and second electrical output signals and wherein the outputs of said acoustical/electrical convert- ers are operationally connected to an electronic transducer unit, which generates an output signal dependent from said first and second output signals of said converters by an amplification function which function is dependent from spatial angle under which said converters receive acoustical signals, comprising:
- phase difference detection unit the inputs thereof being operationally connected to the outputs of said converters and generating at its output a phase difference-dependent signal
- phase processing unit one input thereof being operationally connected to the output of said phase difference- detection unit, at least one second input of said processing unit being operationally connected to a factor-value- selecting source
- a third input of said phase processing unit being operationally connected to at least one of the inputs of said at least two converters, said phase processing unit generating an output signal at its output according to a signal at said third input with a phasing according to a sig- nal at said one input and at said at least one second input
- a beam-former processing unit with at least two inputs, one input being operationally connected to the output of said phase-processing unit, the second input being operationally connected to at least one output of said at least two con- verters .
- f r may be shifted to lower frequencies : It becomes possible to realise f r values well in the audiofrequency band for speech recognition ( ⁇ 4 kHz) with physical distances of microphones, which are considerably smaller than this was possible up to now.
- Multiplying the phase difference by a constant factor does nevertheless not affect the roll-off according to fig. 4.
- This roll-off is significantly improved, leading to an enlarged frequency band B r according to fig. 4 if - as was said - the predetermined function of frequency is selected as a function which is at least in a first approximation inversely proportional to the frequency of the acoustic signal.
- Fig. 1 A functional block diagram of a two-transducer acoustic receiver with directional beam forming according to prior art
- Fig. 2 one of prior art beam forming techniques as may be incorporated in the apparatus of fig. 1, shown in block diagram form;
- Fig. 3 a two-dimensional representation of a three- dimensional cardoid beam, i.e. amplification characteristic as a function of incident angle of acoustical signals;
- Fig. 4 the frequency dependency of the maximum amplification value according to fig. 3 for first and second order cardoid functions
- Fig. 5 a pointer diagram resulting from the technique ac- cording to fig. 2, still prior art
- Fig. 6 a pointer diagram based on fig. 5 (prior art) , but according to the inventive method, which is performed by an inventive apparatus;
- Fig. 7 a simplified block diagram of a first realisation form of an inventive apparatus, especially of an in- ventive hearing aid apparatus, wherein the inventive method is implemented;
- Fig. 8 a simplified block diagram of a today preferred realisation form of the inventive method and apparatus
- Fig. 9 a simplified block diagram of an inventive apparatus, operating according to the inventive method, in a generalised form
- Fig. 10 a generic signal-flow/functional block diagram of an inventive apparatus operating according to the inventive method
- Fig. 11 the measured directivity characteristics resulting from the inventive method and inventive apparatus according to fig. 8;
- Fig. 12 a second directivity characteristics in a representa- tion according to fig. 11, resulting from the inventive method and apparatus according to fig. 8.
- This phase difference is determined and is multiplied by a value dependent from frequency, thus with the respective value of a function M( ⁇ ) , which may be also a constant M 0 ⁇ 1.
- phase shifted pointer A 2V This pointer would have also occurred if dt had been larger by an amount according to M ⁇ or M 0 , thus if a "virtual transducer" had been placed distant from transducer l a by the virtual distance p v , for which:
- f rV is reduced by the factor M ⁇ , taken M ⁇ > 1.
- fig. 7 there is schematically shown a first preferred realisation form of an inventive apparatus in a simplified manner, especially for implementing the inventive method into an inventive hearing aid apparatus.
- the output signals of the acoustical/electrical transducer 2 a and 2 b are fed to respective analogue to digital converters 20a, 20b, the outputs thereof being input to time domain to frequency domain - TFC - converter units as to Fast-Fourier Transform units 22a and 22b.
- This multiplication according to (3 V ) is done at a spectral multiplication unit 28.
- Signal A x in its spectral representation is then spectrally phase shifted at a spectral phase shifter unit 29 by the multiplied spectral phase difference signals output by multiplier unit 28.
- the resulting spec- trum is transformed back by a frequency to time domain converter - FTC - as by an Inverse-Fast-Fourier-Transform unit 24 to result in A ⁇ .
- other beam forming techniques than that described with the help of figs 1 to 4, i.e. using the time delaying technique - transformed in the frequency domain - may be used in unit 23.
- the frequency dependent function M ⁇ is selected to be, at least in a first approximation
- Fig. 8 shows a today's preferred embodiment of an inventive apparatus in a functional-block/signal-flow representation in analogy to the representation of fig. 7.
- Blocks and signals which were already explained with the help of fig. 7 are defined in fig. 8 by the same reference numbers.
- the spectrum A fcr>1 ___ n (co 1..n ⁇ ) is then phase-shifted by the phase adding unit 29' by ⁇ ' x n , resulting in an output signal of that unit 29' which is the spectrum A #1 n ( ⁇ x n , ⁇ ' ⁇ n , ⁇ ) as shown in fig. 8.
- the signal A kr l ⁇ ( ⁇ 1 n , ⁇ ) as well as the output signal of summing unit 29' are led to the beam-former unit 23 ' , where they are preferably again summed as shown at 33.
- a signal is generated with a real cardoid dependency from impinging angle ⁇ , whereas at the output of unit 29', and thus after phase shifting, a dependency function with respect to impinging angle ⁇ is realised according to virtually positioned converters.
- summing as with the unit 33 within beam-former unit 23 ' , there results a dependency of the output signal A, from impinging angle ⁇ according to a second order cardoid if the real cardoid dependency at the output of unit 32 is a first order cardoid.
- phase difference spectrum at the output of unit 27 is subjected to a phase shifter unit 35, where it is modified as per c x to
- the generalised phase shifter 35 may receive directly one of the output signals of one of the two converters 2a, 2b and/or a signal which results from beam forming from the said converter output signals to be phase shifted. In fig. 9 this is represented by the signal path fed back from beam former 37 to the phase shifter 35. This feedback accords, with an eye on fig. 8, to the signal path between beam former 32 and summing unit 29' . According to fig. 9 beam former unit 32 of fig. 8 is integrated in the overall beam former unit 37.
- the beam former 37 in its generalised form of fig. 9 receives at least one of the output signals of the converters 2a, 2b and the output signal of the generalised phase shifter 35.
- • more than two real converters may be used and/or • more than one M ⁇ function or of c 0 or c x n sets may be used to produce more than one "virtual transducer" signal from one or from more than one real converter signals respectively.
- the spatial weighing function may be selectively tailored.
- the present invention under its principal object makes it possible to realise practically any desired beam forming with at least two converters separated by only a predetermined small distance, due to the fact that electronically there is provided a virtual mutual converter location of the physically provided converter .
- Fig. 10 shows in most generic form the principle proceeding and apparatus structure as according to the present invention and common to all embodiments of the invention as described above.
- First and second electric signals S and S 2 which are derived from the output signals of the at least two acoustical/electrical converters 2 a , 2 b , are input to the transducer unit 3.
- a phase difference detection unit according to unit 27 of figures 7, 8 or 9.
- the phase difference detection unit 27 has respective inputs which are operationally connected to the inputs of unit 3 and- thus to the outputs of the converters 2a, 2b.
- the output of the phase difference detection unit 27 is operationally connected to an input of a phase processing unit 40 shown in dashed-dotted lines in fig. 10.
- the phase processing unit has a second input, which is connected to a factor value-selecting source 42, generating a constant or frequency-dependent factor h.
- a third input of the phase processing unit is operationally connected as schematically shown by combining unit 44 in an "AND” or in an "EX- OR" dependency to respective outputs of the at least two converters 2 a and 2 b .
- the phase processing unit 40 generates an output signal, S 3 , in accordance with a signal, S 4 , applied to the third input of the processing unit 40 and in accordance with the signals applied to the first - from 27 - and second - from 42 - inputs to the phase processing unit .
- the signal at the first input of the phase processing unit which is operationally connected to the output of the phase difference detection unit, is multiplied - by unit 28 - by the constant or frequency-dependent factor, and, at a signal combining unit 46, the output signal of the processing unit, signal S 3 , is thus generated in dependency from mutual phasing of the output signals of the converters, multiplied by a constant or frequency-dependent factor and from signal S 4 as applied to the third input of the processing unit 40, which latter signal S 4 is dependent from at least one of the output signals of the converters 2 a , 2 b .
- the dependency F ⁇ of signal S 3 from both, signal S 4 and multiplied phasing signal as at the output of unit 28, is generated.
- the signal S 3 which accords to A x ( ⁇ ) of fig. 7 or to
- a kr , ⁇ .. . n ( ⁇ ⁇ ...n/ ⁇ ) °f figs . 8 and 9, is input to a beam former processing unit 48 according to unit 23 or 23' or 37, as of the figs. 7 to 9.
- the beam former processing unit comprises a second input to which S 5 , dependent from at least one of the output signals of the converters 2 a , 2 b is fed. Latter signals are thus operationally connected as schematically shown by block 50 in an "EX-OR” or in an "AND” combination to the beam former processing unit 48.
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