Identification Method and Apparatus in an Audio System

• US 20090304194A1
• Filed: 03/23/2007
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Genelec Oy
• Original Assignee: Genelec Oy
• Inventors: Moilanen, Pekka, Eggleston, William, Mäkivirta, Aki, Tikkanen, Jussi
• Application Number:
  US12/294,903
• Publication Number:
  US 20090304194A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/001 for loudspeakers H04R29/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/002 Loudspeaker arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/008 Visual indication of individual signal levels visual indication of stereophonic sound image H04S7/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 5/04 Circuit arrangements, e.g. for selective connection of amplifier inputs/outputs to loudspeakers, for loudspeaker detection, or for adaptation of settings to personal preferences or hearing impairments combinations of amplifiers H03F3/68; stereophonic systems H04S

Abstract

An identification method and apparatus in a sound-reproduction system, in which an electrical calibration signal is created, an audio signal is created in the loudspeaker from the calibration signal, the response of the audio signal is measured and analysed, and the system is adjusted on the basis of the measurement results. A light signal is created in the loudspeaker with the aid of a centralized control system, in order to indicate visually the loudspeaker that is the subject of the calibration.

Claims

1. An identification method in a sound-reproduction system, in which an electrical calibration signal is created, an audio signal is created in the loudspeaker from the calibration signal, the response of the audio signal is measured and analysed, and the system is adjusted on the basis of the measurement results, wherein:

a light signal is created in the loudspeaker with the aid of a centralized control system, in order to indicate visually the loudspeaker that is the subject of the calibration, and

the state of the loudspeaker is expressed with the aid of the colour or blinking of the light signal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the calibration signal is created in the loudspeaker itself, in such a way that it is an essentially sinusoidal signal, the frequency of which scans through at least substantially the entire frequency range.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein whether the loudspeaker is in a normal state, selected, belongs to a group, or is in a fault state, is expressed with the aid of the colour or blinking of the light signal.

4. An identification apparatus in a sound-reproduction system, which comprises means for creating an electrical calibration signal, a loudspeaker for producing an audio signal from the calibration signal, measuring and analysis means for measuring and analysing the response of the audio signal, and adjustment means for adjusting the system on the basis of the measurement results, wherein:

there are means in the loudspeaker for creating a light signal with the aid of a centralized control system, in order to indicate visually the loudspeaker that is the subject of the calibration, and means for identifying the state of the loudspeaker, with the aid of the colour or blinking of a light signal.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the loudspeaker itself comprises means for creating a calibration signal, in such a way that it is an essentially sinusoidal signal, the frequency of which scans at least substantially through the entire frequency range.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising means for identifying with the aid of light information, whether the loudspeaker is in a normal state, selected, belongs to a group, or is in a fault state.

7. A loudspeaker which comprises a sound-producing element adjustment and control devices for controlling the sound-producing element, and signal and control connections, wherein:

the loudspeaker comprises means for creating a light signal with the aid of a centralized control system, in order to indicate visually the loudspeaker that is the subject of the calibration.

8. The loudspeaker according to claim 7, wherein the loudspeaker is an active loudspeaker.

9. The loudspeaker according to claim 7, wherein the loudspeaker comprises means for implementing an essentially logarithmic frequency scan.

10. The loudspeaker according to claim 7, wherein the loudspeaker comprises means for implementing a frequency scan that starts from the lowest frequencies.