Adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus

• US 5,251,262 A
• Filed: 06/28/1991
• Issued: 10/05/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tamura, Hiroshi, Saruta, Susumu, Suzuki, Seiichirou
• Primary Examiner(s): Isen, Forester W.
• Application Number:
  US07/723,420
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 381/71, 381/94
• US Class Current: 381/71.8
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17823 Reference signals, e.g. ambient acoustic environment
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17825 Error signals
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17854 the filter being an adaptive filter
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17879 using both a reference signal and an error signal
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/1054 Refrigerators
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/3033 Information contained in memory, e.g. stored signals or transfer functions
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/30391 Resetting of the filter parameters or changing the algorithm according to prevailing conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/3045 Multiple acoustic inputs, single acoustic output

Abstract

An adaptive type active noise cancellation apparatus comprises a first sensor for detecting a noise generated by a noise source and outputting a detection signal, a filter having a predetermined filter coefficient and filtering the output signal from the first sensor by using the predetermined filter coefficient and outputting a filtered signal, a speaker for receiving the filtered signal and generating a sound corresponding to the filtered signal, an active noise cancellation control system for actively canceling a noise at a control target point by using the sound generated by the speaker, a second sensor, arranged at the control target point, for detecting a sound at the control target point and outputting a detection signal, and an adaptive control system for receiving the output signals from the first and second sensors and adaptively updating the filter coefficient in accordance with a change in state of a system to which the active noise cancellation control system is applied. The adaptive control system includes a switch for stopping the active noise cancellation control system in adaptive processing, and a correction system for correcting the output signal from the first sensor or the second sensor by using a transfer function corresponding to a delay in a spatial system between the speaker and the second sensor and a delay required for calculation processing.

Claims

1. An adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus comprising:

first sensor means for detecting a sound generated by a sound source and outputting a detection signal;

filter means, having a predetermined filter coefficient, for filtering the output signal from said first sensor means by using the predetermined filter coefficient, and outputting a filtered signal;

sound generating means for receiving the filtered signal and generating a sound corresponding to the filtered signal;

an active noise cancellation control system for actively canceling a source sound at a control target point by using the sound generated by said sound generating means;

second sensor means, arranged at the control target point, for detecting a sound at the control target point and outputting a detection signal; and

an adaptive control system for receiving the output signals from said first and second sensor means and adaptively updating the filter coefficient in accordance with a state of a system for which noise cancellation is to be performed by said active noise cancellation control system,

wherein said adaptive control system comprises means for stopping said active noise cancellation control system in an adaptive operation, and a correction system for correcting the output signal from said first sensor means or said second sensor means by using a transfer function corresponding to a delay in a spatial system between said sound generating means and said second sensor means and a delay required for calculation processing,

wherein said correction system comprises an inverse filter having an inverse function of the transfer function and arranged in an output signal path of said second sensor means.

2. An adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus comprising:

first sensor means for detecting a sound generated by a sound source and outputting a detection signal;

filter means, having a predetermined filter coefficient, for filtering the output signal from said first sensor means by using the predetermined filter coefficient, and outputting a filtered signal;

sound generating means for receiving the filtered signal and generating a sound corresponding to the filtered signal;

an active noise cancellation control system for actively canceling a source sound at a control target point by using the sound generated by said sound generating means;

second sensor means, arranged at the control target point, for detecting a sound at the control target point and outputting a detection signal; and

an adaptive control system for receiving the output signals from said first and second sensor means and adaptively updating the filter coefficient of said filter means in accordance with a state of a system for which noise cancellation is to be performed by said active noise cancellation control system.

wherein said adaptive control system comprises means for stopping said active noise cancellation control system in an adaptive operation, and a correction system for correcting the output signal from one of said first sensor means and said second sensor means by using a transfer function corresponding to a spatial delay in a spatial system between said sound generating means and said second sensor means and an electrical delay required for calculation processing, said correction system including adaptive control means for obtaining a difference between a new filter coefficient obtained in accordance with a change in state of the system and a current filter coefficient, a first forward filter having the transfer function and which is coupled between an input terminal of said adaptive control means and an output terminal of said first sensor means and a second forward filter connected to an input terminal means of said means for adaptively updating the filter coefficient, for compensating for the spatial and electrical delays.

3. An adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus comprising:

first sensor means for detecting a sound generated by a sound source and outputting a detection signal;

filter means, having a predetermined filter coefficient, for filtering the output signal from said first sensor means by using the predetermined filter coefficient, and outputting a filtered signal;

sound generating means for receiving the filtered signal and generating a sound corresponding to the filtered signal;

an active noise cancellation control system for actively canceling a source sound at a control target point by using the sound generated by said sound generating means;

second sensor means, arranged at the control target point, for detecting a sound at the control target point and outputting a detection signal; and

an adaptive control system for receiving the output signals from said first and second sensor means and adaptively updating the filter coefficient in accordance with a state of a system for which noise cancellation is to be performed by said active noise cancellation control system,

wherein said adaptive control system comprises;

a correction system for correcting the output signal from one of said first sensor means and said second sensor means by using a transfer function corresponding to a delay in a spatial system between said sound generating means and said second sensor means and a delay required for calculation processing;

error coefficient calculating means for receiving the output signals which are output from said first and second sensor means and pass through said correction system, and obtaining a filter coefficient, as an error filter coefficient, so that a difference between an output of said error coefficient calculating means and the detection signal of said second sensor means comes to a minimum value while said active noise cancellation control system executes a noise cancellation operation; and

means for obtaining a new filter coefficient from a difference between the error filter coefficient obtained by said error coefficient calculating means and a filter coefficient currently set in said active noise cancellation control system, and updating the filter coefficient of said active noise cancellation control system to the new filter coefficient.

5. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said correction system includes a forward filter having the transfer function and arranged in an output signal path of said first sensor means.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said correction system includes a delay means arranged in a front stage of said error coefficient calculating means for compensating for the delay in a spatial system and the delay required for calculation processing.

4. An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said correction system includes an inverse filter having an inverse function of the transfer function and arranged in an output signal path of said second sensor means.

7. An adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus comprising.

first sensor means for detecting a noise generated by a noise source and outputting a detection signal;

filter means, having a predetermined filter coefficient, for filtering the output signal from said first sensor means by using the predetermined filter coefficient, and outputting a filtered signal;

sound generating means for receiving the filtered signal and generating a sound corresponding to the filtered signal;

an active noise cancellation control system for actively canceling a noise at a control target point by using the sound generated by said sound generating means;

second sensor means, arranged at the control target point, for detecting a sound at the control target point and outputting a detection signal; and

an adaptive control system for receiving the output signals from said first and second sensor means and adaptively updating the filter coefficient in accordance with a state of a system for which noise cancellation is to performed by said active noise cancellation control system,

wherein said adaptive control system comprises;

first adaptive control means for receiving the output signals from said first and second sensor means and obtaining a filter coefficient based on a difference between a filter coefficient currently set in said active noise cancellation control system and a new filter coefficient to be set in said active noise cancellation control system while said active noise cancellation control system executes a noise cancellation operation,

second adaptive control means for receiving the output signals from said first and second sensor means and obtaining a filter coefficient based on a sum of a filter coefficient currently set in said active noise cancellation control system and a new filter coefficient to be set in said active noise cancellation control system while said active noise cancellation control system executes a noise cancellation operation; and

update control means for replacing the filter coefficient of said active noise cancellation control system with the new filter coefficient by using the filter coefficient based on the sum obtained by said second adaptive control means and the filter coefficient based on the difference obtained by said first adaptive control means.

8. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said first adaptive control means comprises a first adaptive controller for receiving the output signals from said first and second sensor means, and a forward filter having a filter coefficient corresponding to a transfer function between said sound generating means and said second sensor means and arranged in a signal path between said first sensor means and said first adaptive controller, and said second adaptive control means comprises a series circuit constituted by an amplifier for amplifying an input signal twofold, a first forward filter having a filter coefficient corresponding to a transfer function between said sound generating means and said sensor means, and a second filter having a filter coefficient equal to the filter coefficient set in said active noise cancellation control system, said series circuit causing the output signal from said first sensor means to pass through said amplifier, said first forward filter, and said second filter in the order named, an adder for adding the output signal, which is output from said first sensor means and passes through said series circuit, to the output signal from said second sensor means, a second adaptive controller for receiving the output signal from said first sensor means and an output signal from said adder, and a third forward filter having a filter coefficient corresponding to a transfer function between said sound generating means and said second sensor means and arranged in a signal path between said second adaptive controller and said first sensor means.

9. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said update control means comprises a fourth filter in which the filter coefficient based on the difference obtained by said first adaptive control means is set and which filters the output signal from said first sensor means, a fifth filter in which the filter coefficient based on the sum obtained by said second adaptive control means is set and which filters the output signal from said first sensor means, an adder for adding a signal filtered by said second filter to a signal filtered by said first filter, a third adaptive controller for receiving the output signal from said first sensor means and an output signal from said adder, an amplifier, arranged between said third adaptive controller and said first sensor means, for amplifying an input signal twofold, and means for transferring the filter coefficient obtained by said third adaptive controller, as the new filter coefficient, to said active sound cancellation control system.

10. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said update control means comprises means for adding the filter coefficient based on the difference obtained by said first adaptive control means to the filter coefficient based on the sum obtained by said second adaptive control means, and transferring a filter coefficient obtained by multiplying the sum filter coefficient by -(1/2), as the new filter coefficient, to said active sound cancellation control system.

11. An adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus comprising:

first sensor means for detecting a sound generated by a sound source and outputting a detection signal;

filter means, having a predetermined filter coefficient, for filtering the output signal from said first sensor means by using the predetermined filter coefficient, and outputting a filtered signal;

sound generating means for receiving the filtered signal and generating a sound corresponding to the filtered signal;

an active noise cancellation control system for canceling a source sound at a control target point by using the sound generated by said sound generating means;

second sensor means, arranged at the control target point, for detecting a sound at the control target point and outputting a detection signal; and

an adaptive control system for receiving the output signals from said first and second sensor means and adaptively updating the filter coefficient in accordance with a state of a system for which noise cancellation is to be performed by said active noise cancellation control system,

wherein said adaptive control system comprises;

a plurality of adaptive control circuits for setting and updating a filter coefficient such that an output signal becomes a desired signal;

error coefficient calculating means for receiving the output signals which are output from said first and second sensor means and pass through said correction system, and obtaining a filter coefficient, as an error filter coefficient, so that a difference between an output of said error coefficient calculating means and the detection signal of said second sensor means comes to a minimum value while said active noise cancellation control system executes a noise cancellation operation;

means for obtaining a new filter coefficient from a difference between the error filter coefficient obtained by said error coefficient calculating means and a filter coefficient currently set in said active noise cancellation control system;

storage means for storing a previous filter coefficient and the new filter coefficient;

calculation means for calculating one of a sum of the previous filter coefficient and the new filter coefficient and a difference therebetween;

output means for digitally filtering an input signal in accordance with a result obtained by said calculation means;

bus line means coupling said memory means to each of said adaptive control circuits, said calculation means and said output means, for transferring the signal between said memory means and each of said adaptive control circuits, said calculation means and said output means;

clock generating means for generating a clock for setting an operation timing between said adaptive control means and said output means; and

transfer function correcting means connected to an input terminal means of said adaptive control means, for filtering the input signal, using a filter coefficient corresponding to a transfer function between an adaptive control evaluation point and a device to be adaptively controlled by said output signal.

12. An apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said storage means comprises first storage means for storing the previous filter coefficient, and second storage means for storing the new filter coefficient, and said calculation means includes parallel operation processing means for executing a parallel operation process between said first storage means and said second storage means.

13. An apparatus according to claim 11, wherein when said output means outputs the output signal, using the filter coefficient obtained by said transfer function correcting means and said adaptive control circuits, each of said adaptive control circuits has a plurality of taps which are divided into a plurality of tap groups, and the filter coefficients are output for each of the tap groups in synchronism with the clocks generated from said clock generating means and in accordance with each of the tap groups.