AUDIO TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20120281847A1
• Filed: 07/16/2012
• Published: 11/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LO, Yi, LIU, Guo-Zhong, FENG, Hui-Ling, DENG, Rui
• Granted Patent: US 9,204,234 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/00 Monitoring arrangements; Testing arrangements for hearing aids H04R25/30; detection of loudspeaker connection H04R5/04; sound-field adaptation dependent on speaker detection H04S7/308

Abstract

An audio testing system is configured for receiving an audio signal from an audio emitting device. The system samples the audio signal and obtains sampling points from the audio signal for determining if the audio signal has been distorted. A related method is also disclosed.

Claims

1. An audio testing method for testing an audio signal, the method comprising:

providing a computer system having a sound card connected to an audio-emitting device;

receiving an audio signal from the audio-emitting device;

sampling the audio signal for obtaining sampling points;

storing the sampling points in a memory system of the computer system; and

processing amplitude values of the sampling points stored in the memory into P number of sampling regions, wherein each of the P number of sampling regions ranges between 3-10 ms;

taking the absolute values of differences between amplitude values of each two adjacent sampling points, and adds up all of the absolute values;

determining if it has processed sampling points for Q times, wherein Q ranges between 5-10;

taking maximum values and minimum values from the summations, namely Max and Min upon the condition that the computer system has processed sampling points for Q times;

processing the sampling points stored in the memory into P number of sampling regions again upon the condition that the computer system has not processed sampling points for Q times;

determining if the Max/Min is equal to S, wherein S may range between 20-30;

determining that the audio signal has been distorted upon the condition that the Max/Min is equal to or more than S; and

determining that the audio signal has been not distorted upon the condition that the Max/Min is less than S.

2. The audio testing method of claim 1, further comprising an attenuation circuit configured for attenuating noises in the audio signal from the audio emitting device, wherein the attenuation circuit is connected between the audio emitting device and the computer system.

3. The audio testing method of claim 1, wherein P=5, Q=10, S=20.

4. The audio testing method of claim 1, wherein upon the condition that the audio signal has been distorted, the audio testing method further comprises:

recording the audio signal as a digital audio signal, and storing the digital audio signal into the memory.

5. The audio testing method as claimed in claim 4, wherein after the storing step, the computer system records a section of the distorted audio signal into a log file.