WO2023154102A1 - Atténuation de brouillage dans système de détection d'impédance - Google Patents

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WO2023154102A1
WO2023154102A1 PCT/US2022/051929 US2022051929W WO2023154102A1 WO 2023154102 A1 WO2023154102 A1 WO 2023154102A1 US 2022051929 W US2022051929 W US 2022051929W WO 2023154102 A1 WO2023154102 A1 WO 2023154102A1
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  • the present disclosure relates in general to methods, apparatuses, or implementations for monitoring loads with complex impedances. Embodiments set forth herein may also disclose improvements for mitigating noise and other interference that may negatively affect accuracy and precision measurement of complex impedance.
  • Vibro-haptic transducers for example linear resonant actuators (LRAs)
  • LRAs linear resonant actuators
  • Vibro-haptic feedback in various forms creates different feelings of touch to a user’s skin and may play increasing roles in human-machine interactions for modem devices.
  • An LRA may be modelled as a mass-spring electro-mechanical vibration system. When driven with appropriately designed or controlled driving signals, an LRA may generate certain desired forms of vibrations. For example, a sharp and clear- cut vibration pattern on a user’ s finger may be used to create a sensation that mimics a mechanical button click. This clear-cut vibration may then be used as a virtual switch to replace mechanical buttons.
  • FIGURE 1 illustrates an example of a vibro-haptic system in a device 100.
  • Device 100 may comprise a controller 101 configured to control a signal applied to an amplifier 102.
  • Amplifier 102 may then drive a vibrational actuator (e.g., haptic transducer) 103 based on the signal.
  • Controller 101 may be triggered by a trigger to output to the signal.
  • the trigger may, for example, comprise a pressure or force sensor on a screen or virtual button of device 100.
  • tonal vibrations of sustained duration may play an important role to notify the user of the device of certain predefined events, such as incoming calls or messages, emergency alerts, and timer warnings, etc.
  • the resonance frequency fo of a haptic transducer may be approximately estimated as: where C is the compliance of the spring system, and M is the equivalent moving mass, which may be determined based on both the actual moving part in the haptic transducer and the mass of the portable device holding the haptic transducer.
  • the vibration resonance of the haptic transducer may vary from time to time.
  • FIGURE 2 illustrates an example of a linear resonant actuator (LRA) modelled as a linear system.
  • LRAs are non-linear components that may behave differently depending on, for example, the voltage levels applied, the operating temperature, and the frequency of operation. However, these components may be modelled as linear components within certain conditions.
  • the LRA is modelled as a third order system having electrical and mechanical elements.
  • Re and Le are the DC resistance and coil inductance of the coil-magnet system, respectively; and Bl is the magnetic force factor of the coil.
  • the driving amplifier outputs the voltage waveform F(t) with the output impedance Ro.
  • the terminal voltage V T (t) may be sensed across the terminals of the haptic transducer.
  • the mass-spring system 201 moves with velocity u(t).
  • a haptic system may require precise control of movements of the haptic transducer. Such control may rely on the magnetic force factor Bl, which may also be known as the electromagnetic transfer function of the haptic transducer.
  • magnetic force factor Bl can be given by the product B . I, where B is magnetic flux density and I is a total length of electrical conductor within a magnetic field. Both magnetic flux density B and length I should remain constant in an ideal case with motion occurring along a single axis.
  • an LRA may undergo displacement.
  • displacement In order to protect an LRA from damage, such displacement may be limited. Accordingly, accurate measurement of displacement may be crucial in optimizing LRA displacement protection algorithms. Accurate measurement of displacement may also enable increased drive levels of the LRA. While existing approaches measure displacement, such approaches have disadvantages. For example, displacement may be measured using a Hall sensor, but Hall sensors are often costly to implement.
  • the disadvantages and problems associated with existing approaches for monitoring a complex impedance may be reduced or eliminated.
  • a system may include driving circuitry configured to drive a driving signal to an output transducer, sensing circuitry configured to sense a physical quantity associated with the output transducer in response to the driving signal, and interference detection circuitry configured to detect the presence of interference of the system and mitigate the effect of the interference in the system.
  • a method may include sensing a physical quantity associated with an output transducer in response to a driving signal to an output transducer, detecting the presence of interference of a system comprising the output transducer, and mitigating the effect of the interference in the system.
  • an integrated circuit may include sensing circuitry configured to sense a physical quantity associated with an output transducer in response to a driving signal to an output transducer and interference detection circuitry configured to detect the presence of interference of a system comprising the output transducer and mitigate the effect of the interference in the system.
  • FIGURE 1 illustrates an example of a vibro-haptic system in a device, as is known in the art
  • FIGURE 2 illustrates an example of a Linear Resonant Actuator (LRA) modelled as a linear system, as is known in the art;
  • LRA Linear Resonant Actuator
  • FIGURE 3 illustrates selected components of an example host device, in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • FIGURE 4 illustrates selected components of an example impedance measurement subsystem, in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • Various electronic devices or smart devices may have transducers, speakers, and acoustic output transducers, for example any transducer for converting a suitable electrical driving signal into an acoustic output such as a sonic pressure wave or mechanical vibration.
  • many electronic devices may include one or more speakers or loudspeakers for sound generation, for example, for playback of audio content, voice communications and/or for providing audible notifications.
  • Such speakers or loudspeakers may comprise an electromagnetic actuator, for example a voice coil motor, which is mechanically coupled to a flexible diaphragm, for example a conventional loudspeaker cone, or which is mechanically coupled to a surface of a device, for example the glass screen of a mobile device.
  • Some electronic devices may also include acoustic output transducers capable of generating ultrasonic waves, for example for use in proximity detection-type applications and/or machine - to-machine communication.
  • an electronic device may additionally or alternatively include more specialized acoustic output transducers, for example, haptic transducers, tailored for generating vibrations for haptic control feedback or notifications to a user.
  • an electronic device may have a connector, e.g., a socket, for making a removable mating connection with a corresponding connector of an accessory apparatus, and may be arranged to provide a driving signal to the connector so as to drive a transducer, of one or more of the types mentioned above, of the accessory apparatus when connected.
  • Such an electronic device will thus comprise driving circuitry for driving the transducer of the host device or connected accessory with a suitable driving signal.
  • the driving signal may generally be an analog time varying voltage signal, for example, a time varying waveform.
  • methods and systems of the present disclosure may determine an impedance of the electromagnetic load, and then convert the impedance to a position signal, as described in greater detail below. Further, to measure impedance of an electromagnetic load, methods and systems of the present disclosure may utilize either a phase measurement approach and/or a high-frequency pilot-tone driven approach, as also described in greater detail below.
  • an electromagnetic load may be driven by a driving signal V (t) to generate a sensed terminal voltage V T (t) across a coil of the electromagnetic load.
  • Sensed terminal voltage V T (t) may be given by:
  • V T (H Z C0IL l(t) + V B (t) wherein /(t) is a sensed current through the electromagnetic load, ZCOIL is an impedance of the electromagnetic load, and V B (t) is the back-electromotive force (back-EMF) associated with the electromagnetic load.
  • back-EMF back-electromotive force
  • an electromagnetic load means to generate and communicate an actuation signal to the electromagnetic load to cause displacement of a movable mass of the electromagnetic load. Further, to “drive” an electromagnetic load may also mean driving of a pilot signal or other test signal to the electromagnetic load from which electrical parameters of the electromagnetic load may be measured.
  • back-EMF voltage Fg(t) may be proportional to velocity of the moving mass of the electromagnetic load
  • back-EMF voltage F B (t) may in turn provide an estimate of such velocity.
  • Position of the moving mass may be related to an impedance of the electromagnetic load, including a coil inductance LCOIL of the electromagnetic load.
  • back-EMF voltage F B (t) may become negligible and inductance may dominate the coil impedance ZCOIL- Sensed terminal voltage V T@HF (t) at high frequencies may be estimated by:
  • An inductance component of coil impedance ZCOIL may be indicative of a position or a displacement of the moving mass of the electromagnetic load.
  • such inductance may be a nominal value when the moving mass is at rest.
  • the magnetic field strength may be modulated by the position of the mass which leads to a small alternating-current (AC) modulation signal of the inductance that is a function of the mass position.
  • AC alternating-current
  • FIGURE 3 illustrates selected components of an example host device 300 having an electromagnetic actuator 304.
  • Host device 300 may include, without limitation, a mobile device, home application, vehicle, and/or any other system, device, or apparatus that includes a human-machine interface.
  • Electromagnetic actuator 304 may include any suitable load with a complex impedance, including without limitation a haptic transducer, a loudspeaker, a microspeaker, a voice-coil actuator, a solenoid, or other suitable transducer.
  • a signal generator 324 of a processing subsystem 305 of host device 300 may generate a raw transducer driving signal x'(t) (which, in some embodiments, may be a waveform signal, such as a haptic waveform signal or audio signal).
  • Raw transducer driving signal x'(t) may be generated based on a desired playback waveform received by signal generator 324.
  • Raw transducer driving signal %'(t) may be received by waveform preprocessor 326 which may modify raw transducer driving signal %'(t) based on parameters received from impedance measurement subsystem 308 and/or based on any other factor in order to generate processed transducer driving signals x ⁇ (t) and x 2 (t) .
  • waveform preprocessor 326 may modify raw transducer driving signal %'(t) based on interference mitigation signals generated based on detected interference and received from impedance measurement subsystem 308, as described in greater detail below.
  • Processed transducer driving signal %i(t) may in turn be amplified by amplifier 306a to generate a driving signal 1 ⁇ (0 for driving electromagnetic load 301a.
  • processed transducer driving signal x 2 (t) may in turn be amplified by amplifier 306b to generate a driving signal V 2 (t) for driving electromagnetic load 301b.
  • amplifiers 306a and 306b may be powered from a supply voltage VSUPPLY generated by a power converter 310 or other power source, such that supply voltage VSUPPLY is present across a capacitor 312.
  • host device 300 may operate such that electromagnetic actuator 304 is altematingly driven by driving signal V x (t) and driving signal V 2 (t).
  • host device 300 may operate in a series of alternating phases: a first phase in which driving signal 14 (t) driven to electromagnetic load 301a drives electromagnetic actuator 304 and electromagnetic load 301b is used to measure a displacement of electromagnetic actuator 304, and a second phase in which driving signal V 2 (t) driven to electromagnetic load 301b drives electromagnetic actuator 304 and electromagnetic load 301a is used to measure a displacement of electromagnetic actuator 304.
  • a sensed terminal voltage V T1 (t) of electromagnetic load 301a may be sensed by impedance measurement subsystem 308 (e.g., using a volt-meter).
  • sensed current / x (t) through electromagnetic load 301a may be sensed by impedance measurement subsystem 308.
  • current / x (t) may be sensed by a sense voltage (t) across a shunt resistor 302a having resistance R s coupled to a terminal of electromagnetic load 301a.
  • a sensed terminal voltage V T2 (t) of electromagnetic load 301b may be sensed by impedance measurement subsystem 308 (e.g., using a volt-meter).
  • sensed current / 2 (t) through electromagnetic load 301b may be sensed by impedance measurement subsystem 308.
  • current / 2 (t) may be sensed by a sense voltage V S2 (t) across a shunt resistor 302b having resistance R s coupled to a terminal of electromagnetic load 301b.
  • a resistance of shunt resistor 302a may vary from a resistance of shunt resistor 302b. In fact, even if it were desirable to make the resistance of shunt resistor 302a identical to the resistance of shunt resistor 302b, due to process variations and tolerances, such resistances may differ.
  • processing subsystem 305 may include an impedance measurement subsystem 308 that may estimate respective coil inductances LCOIL of electromagnetic loads 301a and 301b. From such estimated coil inductance LCOIL, impedance measurement subsystem 308 may determine a displacement associated with electromagnetic load 304. Based on such determined displacement, impedance measurement subsystem 308 may communicate one or more parameters to waveform preprocessor 326 (including, without limitation, the value of such displacement), which may cause waveform preprocessor 326 to modify raw transducer driving signal In some embodiments, such displacement may also be indicative of a human interaction (e.g., applied force) to electromagnetic actuator 304.
  • waveform preprocessor 326 including, without limitation, the value of such displacement
  • impedance measurement subsystem 308 may measure impedance in any suitable manner, including without limitation using the approaches set forth in U.S. Patent. Appl. No. 17/497,110 filed October 8, 2021, which is incorporated in its entirety by reference herein.
  • waveform preprocessor 326 may generate a processed transducer driving signal x 1 (t) or x 2 (t) (depending on which electromagnetic coil 301 is the actuating coil used to drive movement of electromagnetic load 304 and which electromagnetic coil 301 is used for sensing) comprising a high-frequency stimulus for driving the sensing coil.
  • impedance measurement subsystem 308 may measure impedance of the sensing coil.
  • Various approaches may be used to estimate coil impedance ZCOIL, including time and frequency domain methods.
  • frequency domain methods reliant on calculation of a discrete Fourier transform may have an advantage of implicit binning of a frequency spectrum depending on a length of time for which current and voltage samples are collected.
  • computing a discrete Fourier transform on sensed currents and sense terminal voltages at a 200- ps duration results in frequency bins of 5 KHz.
  • Additional windowing of a signal prior to application of the discrete Fourier transform may filter out harmonics and attenuate frequencies far from the signal frequency. Accordingly, measurement accuracy when using such an approach may only be affected by interfering energy or noise that falls within a signal bin or at peaks of the windowing function.
  • Accurate estimation of complex impedance may require noise, offset error, gain error, and/or other interference added by measurement circuitry to be minimized. While offset errors and gain errors may be minimized through calibration, and thermal and quantization noise may be minimized by precision circuit design, supply noise may still cause degradation of measurement performance.
  • various components of host device 300 may operate from different power supply rails.
  • amplifiers 306a and 306b may operate from supply voltage VSUPPLY
  • analog portions of impedance measurement subsystem 308 may operate off an analog supply rail (e.g., analog supply voltage VDDA shown in FIGURE 4)
  • digital portions of impedance measurement subsystem 308 may operate off a digital supply rail (e.g., digital supply voltage VDDD shown in FIGURE 4).
  • Noise on any of these rails may introduce additional noise on the measured voltages and currents, thus impacting measurement accuracy.
  • interfering signals incident on device pins may add measurement noise.
  • noise present in the boosted supply rail powering amplifiers 306a and 306b caused by playback of a haptic tone or a pilot tone on one channel may add measurement noise on the impedance sensing circuitry of the other channel.
  • interference may include radio frequency interference incident directly on device pins coupled to electromagnetic actuator 304, substrate noise, and/or other stray noise coupling into the sense path from neighboring traces or blocks.
  • FIGURE 4 illustrates selected components of an example impedance measurement subsystem 308, in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • sensed terminal voltage V T1 (t) of electromagnetic load 301a may be conditioned by an analog front end (AFE) 401a, and converted to a digital representation of sensed terminal voltage V T1 (t) by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 403a.
  • sensed terminal voltage V T2 (t) of electromagnetic load 301b may be conditioned by an AFE 401b, and converted to a digital representation of sensed terminal voltage V T2 (t) by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 403b.
  • ADC analog-to-digital converter
  • sensed voltage V s1 (t) indicative of current / 1 (t) may be conditioned by an AFE 402a and converted to a digital representation by an ADC 404a.
  • sensed voltage V S2 (t), indicative of current / 2 (t) may be conditioned by an AFE 402b and converted to a digital representation by an ADC 404b.
  • the digital representations of sensed terminal voltage F T1 (t), sensed terminal voltage V T2 (t), sensed voltage V s1 (t) and sensed voltage V S2 t) may be received and processed by an impedance estimator 410 that may determine coil impedance ZCOIL in accordance with Ohm’s law, as described above in greater detail.
  • impedance measurement subsystem 308 may also include components for detecting and mitigating interference present in host device 300 that may negatively affect measurement accuracy of impedance estimator 410, including those sources of interference described above.
  • impedance measurement subsystem 308 may include voltage clip detection circuitry 412, current clip detection circuitry 414, and interference determination circuitry 416.
  • a larger than expected in-band signal may result in signal clipping (e.g., desired signal magnitude is greater than a supply voltage such that signal is “clipped” by the magnitude of the supply voltage) at any of AFEs 401a, 401b, 402a, and 402b and/or at any of ADCs 403a, 403b, 404a, and 404d, thus introducing error into impedance measurement.
  • signal clipping e.g., desired signal magnitude is greater than a supply voltage such that signal is “clipped” by the magnitude of the supply voltage
  • each of voltage clip detection circuitry 412 and current clip detection circuitry 414 may be configured to determine whether signal clipping has occurred in either or both of the measured voltage and current signals, for example by comparing such signals to a threshold equal to the relevant supply voltage (e.g., VDDA) minus a predetermined signal headroom. If one or more of such signals exceeds its respective threshold, interference determination circuitry 416 may determine interference is present, and generate one or more interference mitigation signals to mitigate the presence of the interference, as described in greater detail below.
  • VDDA relevant supply voltage
  • impedance measurement subsystem 308 may include a plurality of fast Fourier transform (FFT) blocks 418, each FFT block 418 configured to perform a fast Fourier transform on a respective output of one of ADCs 403a, 403b, 404a, and 404b.
  • FFT fast Fourier transform
  • interference determination circuitry 416 in concert with FFT blocks 418, may perform a zero signal interference detection when no signal is driven to electromagnetic actuator 304, either as a result of no desired haptic effect being driven to electromagnetic actuator 304 or as a result of a dedicated detection mode in which a zero magnitude signal is driven to electromagnetic actuator 304.
  • interference determination circuitry 416 may safely conclude that an in-band interferer is present.
  • Such voltage and current comparisons may be performed post- FFT frequency binning of the measured voltage and current signals, to compare the signal magnitude in each bin to a threshold to ensure any interfering signal in a band of interest is measured and identified.
  • FIGURE 4 depicts FFT blocks 418 as being outside of impedance estimator 410, in some embodiments, FFT blocks 418 may be integral to impedance estimator 410.
  • interference determination circuitry 416 may perform a direct interferer detection of an interferer.
  • interference determination circuitry 416 may determine a frequency of an interferer by computing a DFT over a longer period of time than that compared to a typical impedance estimation period. Such longer estimation period may divide the frequency spectrum into narrower frequency bins, aiding in pinpointing exact frequency of the interferer relative to signal frequency.
  • an FFT frequency bin may be f s /N wide, wherein N is the number of FFT points and f s is the sampling frequency.
  • any potential interferer falling outside of a frequency bin may be rejected as non- interfering with the signal.
  • any interferer falling within the signal bin may be detected by computing a larger FFT with a second number N2 > Ni of FFT points in hopes of placing the signal and the potential interferer in separate frequency bins.
  • the presence of energy in a frequency bin adjacent to the frequency bin of the signal in the larger FFT may identify the presence of an in-band interferer, while the absence of energy in an adjacent bin in the larger FFT may confirm the absence of interfering signals.
  • interference determination circuitry 416 may mitigate the interference using one or more of the approaches described below, or using any other suitable approach. For example, in some embodiments, interference determination circuitry 416 may mitigate an impact of a signal interferer by increasing amplitude of the signal frequency. In such embodiments, it may be preferable that the amplitude is increased only so long as no clipping occurs in the signal path of the sensing circuitry.
  • interference determination circuitry 416 may mitigate an impact of a signal interferer by modifying the signal frequency such that the signal frequency and the interfering frequency are not in adjacent FFT frequency bins.
  • interference determination circuitry 416 may also cause a filter of impedance estimator 410 to apply a notch or null at the frequency of the interferer in order to further mitigate impact of the signal interferer.
  • interference determination circuitry 416 may be configured to cause attenuation of such sources.
  • capacitance of capacitor 312 may be variable (e.g., wherein capacitor 312 may be implemented by a parallel combination of switched capacitive elements) and interference determination circuitry 416 may generate one or more interference mitigation control signals (not explicitly shown in FIGURE 4) to increase the capacitance of capacitor 312 to reduce the magnitude of the ripple relative to signal amplitude.
  • references in the appended claims to an apparatus or system or a component of an apparatus or system being adapted to, arranged to, capable of, configured to, enabled to, operable to, or operative to perform a particular function encompasses that apparatus, system, or component, whether or not it or that particular function is activated, turned on, or unlocked, as long as that apparatus, system, or component is so adapted, arranged, capable, configured, enabled, operable, or operative. Accordingly, modifications, additions, or omissions may be made to the systems, apparatuses, and methods described herein without departing from the scope of the disclosure. For example, the components of the systems and apparatuses may be integrated or separated.
  • each refers to each member of a set or each member of a subset of a set.

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Un système peut comprendre des circuits d'attaque conçus pour entraîner un signal d'attaque à un transducteur de sortie, des circuits de détection conçus pour détecter une quantité physique associée au transducteur de sortie en réponse au signal d'attaque, et des circuits de détection de brouillage conçus pour détecter la présence de brouillage du système et atténuer l'effet de brouillage dans le système.
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