Active noise reducing
First Claim
1. Active noise reducing apparatus comprising,an input transducer that provides a transduced input signal,an adaptive filter having an input coupled to said input transducer,an output transducer coupled to the output of said adaptive filter that transducer the signal on said adaptive filter output to provide a transduced signal to create a noise reducing field at said input transducer,said apparatus being free of acoustic feedback between said output transducer and said input transducer that supports oscillatory signals in said apparatus that impairs active noise reduction,said apparatus being free of any other input transducer capble of providing a transduced input signal to said adaptive filter,wherein said adaptive filter processes the signal on its input in accordance with a predictive algorithm so that said noise reducing field is of nearly equal magnitude and opposite phase relative to the noise field then at said input transducer in the absence of said noise reducing field.
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Abstract
A noise reducing system includes an input transducer that energizes an adaptive filter. The adaptive filter energizes an output transducer that creates a noise reducing field at the input transducer.
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1. Active noise reducing apparatus comprising,
an input transducer that provides a transduced input signal, an adaptive filter having an input coupled to said input transducer, an output transducer coupled to the output of said adaptive filter that transducer the signal on said adaptive filter output to provide a transduced signal to create a noise reducing field at said input transducer, said apparatus being free of acoustic feedback between said output transducer and said input transducer that supports oscillatory signals in said apparatus that impairs active noise reduction, said apparatus being free of any other input transducer capble of providing a transduced input signal to said adaptive filter, wherein said adaptive filter processes the signal on its input in accordance with a predictive algorithm so that said noise reducing field is of nearly equal magnitude and opposite phase relative to the noise field then at said input transducer in the absence of said noise reducing field.
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11. A method of active noise reducing which method includes the steps of,
transducing with a single input transducer a sound field including a noise field at a first location to provide a transduced input signal, adaptively filtering only said transduced input signal to provide a noise reducing electrical signal, transducing said noise reducing electrical signal to provide a transduced noise-reducing signal at a second location to create a noise-reducing field at said first location, and preventing acoustic feedback between said second location and said first location that supports oscillatory signals that impairs active noise reduction, and further including adaptively filtering said transduced input signal in accordance with a predictive algorithm so that said noise reducing field is of nearly equal magnitude and opposite phase relative to the noise field then at said first location in the absence of said noise reducing field.
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