SYSTEM FOR ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL WITH AN INFINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE FILTER

• US 20100266134A1
• Filed: 04/17/2009
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harman International Industries Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Harman International Industries Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shridhar, Vasant, Wertz, Duane
• Granted Patent: US 8,199,924 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/71.100
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17817 between the output signals and the error signals, i.e. secondary path
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17835 using detection of abnormal input signals
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17854 the filter being an adaptive filter
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17855 for improving speed or power requirements
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17879 using both a reference signal and an error signal
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/3028 Filtering, e.g. Kalman filters or special analogue or digital filters
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/3039 Nonlinear, e.g. clipping, numerical truncation, thresholding or variable input and output gain
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/3046 Multiple acoustic inputs, multiple acoustic outputs
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/503 Diagnostics; Stability; Alarms; Failsafe

Abstract

An active noise control (ANC) system includes at least one infinite impulse response filter (IIR). The IIR filter generates an output signal based on an input signal representative of an undesired sound. The ANC system generates an anti-noise signal based on the output signal of the IIR filter. The anti-noise signal is used to drive a speaker to generate sound waves to destructively interfere with the undesired sound. The ANC system includes an update system to generate update coefficients. The update system determines the stability of the update coefficients. Coefficients of the IIR filter are replaced with the update coefficients. The update system generates a set of update coefficients for each sample of the input signal.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions executable with a processor to operate an active noise control system, the computer-readable medium comprising:

instructions executable to generate an output signal of an infinite impulse response filter based on an input signal representative of an undesired sound;

instructions executable to an anti-noise signal based on the output signal of the infinite impulse response filter, where the anti-noise signal is configured to drive a speaker to produce sound waves to destructively interfere with an undesired sound;

instructions executable to generate an update signal based on the output signal of the infinite impulse response filter and an error signal representative of sound waves produced from a combination of the undesired sound and the sound waves produced by the speaker; and

instructions executable to update a plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter based on the update signal.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the instructions executable to generate an update signal comprise:

instructions executable to filter the output signal of the infinite impulse response filter with an estimated path filter to generate a filtered output signal; and

instructions executable to sum the filtered output signal with the error signal to generate the update signal.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, where the instructions executable to update the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse filter comprises:

instructions executable to filter the input signal with an estimated path filter to generate a filtered input signal;

instructions executable to generate at least one intermediate output signal of the infinite impulse response filter based on the filtered input signal; and

instructions executable to update the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one intermediate output signal of the infinite impulse response filter.

4. The computer readable-medium of claim 3, where the instructions executable to update the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter further comprise:

instructions executable to generate at least one update filter output signal from at least one update filter based on the at least one update signal; and

instructions executable to update the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one update filter output signal.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions executable to update a plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter comprise:

instructions executable to provide the update signal to at least one update filter;

instructions executable to generate at least one update filter output signal from the at least one update filter based on the at least one update signal; and

instructions executable to update the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one update filter output signal.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions executable to update the plurality of filter coefficients comprise:

instructions executable to determine a plurality of update coefficients, each update coefficient corresponding to one of the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter;

instructions executable to determine the stability of each of the update coefficients; and

instructions executable to replace each of the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter with corresponding update coefficients when each of the plurality of update coefficients is determined to be stable.

7. A method of operating an active noise control system, the method comprising:

generating an output signal of at least one infinite impulse response filter based on an input signal representative of an undesired sound;

generating anti-noise based on the output signal of the infinite impulse response filter;

generating an update signal based on the output signal of the infinite impulse response filter and an error signal representative of sound waves produced from a combination of the anti-noise and the undesired sound; and

updating a plurality of coefficients of the at least one infinite impulse response filter based on the output signal of the at least one infinite impulse response filter and the update signal.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising filtering the output signal of the infinite impulse response filter with an estimated path filter to generate a filtered output signal;

where, generating an update signal further comprises summing the filtered output signal with the undesired sound signal to generate the update signal.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing the update signal to at least one update filter; and

generating at least one update filter output signal from the at least one update filter based on the update signal;

where, updating the plurality of coefficients further comprises updating the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one update filter output signal.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

filtering the input signal with an estimated path filter to generate a filtered input signal; and

generating at least one intermediate output signal of the infinite impulse response filter based on the filtered input signal;

where, updating the plurality of coefficients further comprises updating the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one intermediate output signal of the infinite impulse response filter.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising generating at least one update filter output signal from at least one update filter based on the at least one update signal,

wherein, updating the plurality of coefficients further comprises updating the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one update filter output signal.

12. The method of claim 7, where updating the plurality of coefficients comprises:

determining a plurality of update coefficients, each of the update coefficients corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter;

determining the stability of each of the update coefficients; and

replacing each of the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter with corresponding update coefficients when each of the plurality of update coefficients is determined to be stable.

13. An active noise control system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory connected to the processor, where the processor is configured to;

generate an output signal from an infinite impulse response filter based on an input signal representative of an undesired sound;

generate an anti-noise signal based on the output signal of the infinite impulse response filter, where the anti-noise signal is configured to drive a speaker to produce sound waves to destructively interfere with an undesired sound;

generate an update signal based on the output signal of the infinite impulse response filter and an error signal representative of sound waves produced from a combination of the undesired sound and the sound waves produced by the speaker; and

update a plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter based on the update signal.

14. The active noise control system of claim 13, the processor further configured to:

filter the output signal of the infinite impulse response filter with an estimated path filter to generate a filtered output signal; and

sum the filtered output signal with the error signal to generate the update signal.

15. The active noise control system of claim 13, the processor further configured to:

filter the input signal with an estimated path filter to generate a filtered input signal;

generate at least one intermediate output signal of the infinite impulse response filter based on the filtered input signal; and

update the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one intermediate output signal of the infinite impulse response filter.

16. The active noise control system of claim 15, the processor further configured to:

generate at least one update filter output signal from at least one update filter based on the at least one update signal; and

update the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one update filter output signal and the at least one intermediate output signal.

17. The active noise control system of claim 13, the processor further configured to:

transmit the update signal to at least one update filter;

generate at least one update filter output signal from the at least one update filter based on the update signal; and

update the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one update filter output signal.

18. The active noise control system of claim 13, the processor further configured to:

determine a plurality of update coefficients, each of the update coefficients corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter;

determine the stability of each of the update coefficients; and

replace each of the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter with corresponding update coefficients when each of the plurality of update coefficients is determined to be stable.

19. A method of operating an active noise control system, the method comprising:

providing a first input signal sample representative of an undesired sound to an infinite impulse response filter;

generating an output signal sample of the infinite impulse response filter based on the first input signal sample;

generating an anti-noise signal sample based on the output signal sample, where the anti-noise signal sample is configured to drive a speaker to produce sound waves to destructively interfere with an undesired sound;

generating an error signal sample based on a combination of sound waves produced by the speaker and the undesired sound;

generating an update signal sample based on the error signal; and

updating a plurality of coefficients included in the infinite impulse response filter based on the at least one intermediate output signal of the infinite impulse response filter.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising providing a second input signal sample representative of the undesired sound to the infinite impulse response filter, where the infinite impulse response filter includes the updated plurality of coefficients.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising filtering the output signal sample of the infinite impulse response filter with an estimated path filter to generate a filtered output signal sample;

where, generating an update signal sample further comprises summing the filtered output signal sample with the undesired sound signal sample to generate the update signal sample.

22. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

filtering the first input signal sample with an estimated path filter to generate a first filtered input signal sample; and

generating at least one intermediate output signal sample of the infinite impulse response filter based on the first filtered input signal sample;

where, updating the plurality of coefficients further comprises updating the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one intermediate output signal sample of the infinite impulse response filter.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising generating at least one update filter output signal sample from at least one update filter based on the at least one update signal sample,

wherein, updating the plurality of coefficients further comprises updating the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one update filter output signal sample.

24. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

providing the update signal sample to at least one update filter; and

generating at least one update filter output signal sample from the at least one update filter based on the update signal sample;

where, updating the plurality of coefficients further comprises updating the plurality of coefficients based on the at least one update filter output signal sample.

25. The method of claim 19, where updating the plurality of coefficients comprises:

determining a plurality of update coefficients, each of the update coefficients corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter;

determining the stability of each of the update coefficients; and

replacing each of the plurality of coefficients of the infinite impulse response filter with the corresponding update coefficients when each of the plurality of update coefficient is determined to be stable.