Low Frequency Phase Matching for Microphones

• US 20070258597A1
• Filed: 08/22/2005
• Published: 11/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oticon A/S (William Demant Fonden)
• Original Assignee: Oticon A/S (William Demant Fonden)
• Inventors: Kjems, Ulrik, Rasmussen, Karsten, Petersen, Kim
• Application Number:
  US11/660,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20070258597A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/26
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/006 Microphone matching

Abstract

The invention relates to a communication device having at least two microphones, where in order to match the microphone performance in respect of the phase response a correction filter in the form of a IIR filter is implemented and where the amplitude of the transfer function for the correction filter is the inverse of the difference between the two microphone amplitudes.

Claims

1. A communication device having a first microphone with a first response and a second microphone with a second response, where in order to match the microphone performance adaptively in respect of the phase response in the frequency area below 500 Hz a correction filter in the form of a IIR filter is implemented and where the amplitude of the transfer function for the correction filter is at least approximately the inverse of the difference between the two microphone amplitudes.

2. A communication device according to claim 1, where the IIR filter is a first order filter.

3. A communication device according to claim 1 or 2, where the phase is matched by use of the correction filter as a consequence of the amplitude matching.

4. A communication device according to claim 1 or 2, where the device is a battery driven bodyworn, preferably headworn, device, e.g. a hearing aid or a telephone headset.

5. A method for adaptive calibration of the amplitude and phase of two individual microphones in a low frequency area, where a correction filter in the form of a IIR filter is implemented for correcting the phase difference between the microphones and where the transfer function for the correction filter is approximately the inverse of ratio between the two microphones transfer functions.