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Granted Patent B2
US 9,276,540 · App. 13/763,083 · Granted Mar 1, 2016

Digital/analogue conversion apparatus

Inventors: Akira Yasuda (Tokyo, JP); Junichi Okamura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: TRIGENCE SEMICONDUCTORS, INC.
H03G3/20H03H15/00H03M3/344H03M3/414H03M3/504H03M7/3022H04R1/005H04R3/00
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Patent No.
US 9,276,540
App. No.
13/763,083
Granted
Mar 1, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A digital/analog conversion apparatus to convert a digital signal into an analog signal. The digital/analog conversion apparatus can generate a high-quality analog signal, even when elements configuring the digital/analog conversion apparatus have variance, with high resolution and a small circuit size. The data conversion apparatus is provided with a first data converter to reduce the number of bits of an input signal, a second data converter to convert the format of the first output signal, and a third data converter for conversion into a code which corresponds to the history of the output from the second data converter.

Claims (40)

1. A digital speaker system comprising:

a plurality of driver circuits;

a speaker unit having a plurality of inputs and a corn driven by a plurality of voice coils, each of plurality of inputs corresponding to each of the plurality of voice coils and corresponding to each of plurality of the driver circuits;

a delta sigma modulator to receive a digital audio signal and generate a first signal; and

a mismatch shaper to convert the first signal to generate a second signal and output the second signal to the plurality of driver circuits which are selected according to a selection history of the plurality of driver circuits,

wherein each of the plurality of driver circuits amplifies the second signal and generates three valued digital signals by using a switching driver, and

wherein each of the plurality of inputs is supplied with three valued digital signals generated by a corresponding driver circuit among the plurality of driver circuits.

2. The digital speaker system according to claim 1 wherein

the plurality of the voice coils are wound individually.

3. The digital speaker system according to claim 1 wherein

the plurality of the voice coils are bunched and wound.

4. The digital speaker system according to claim 1 , comprising:

a delay circuit to delay the second signal and supply the plurality of the driver circuits with the delayed second signal.

5. The digital speaker system according to claim 1 , comprising:

a microphone unit; and

a controller to receive a signal from the microphone unit and output a control signal to the delta sigma modulator.

6. The digital speaker system according to claim 5 wherein

the microphone unit has a plurality of microphones.

7. The digital speaker system according to claim 6 wherein

the microphone unit detects a direction of a peripheral noise.

8. The digital speaker system according to claim 1 , comprising:

a transmitter to transmit the second signal; and

a receiver to receive the transmitted second signal and supply the plurality of the driver circuits with the received second signal.

9. A digital speaker system comprising:

a first channel;

a second channel; and

a plurality of digital speakers, each of the plurality of digital speakers having a corn driven by a plurality of voice coils, and

each of the first channel and the second channel including:

a plurality of driver circuits,

a delta sigma modulator to receive a digital audio signal and generate a first signal,

a mismatch shaper to convert the first signal to generate a second signal and output the second signal to the plurality of driver circuits which are selected according to a selection history of the plurality of driver circuits,

wherein each of the plurality of driver circuits amplifies the second signal and generates three valued digital signals by using a switching driver, and

wherein a first group of the plurality of digital speakers among the plurality of digital speakers receives three valued digital signals from the first channel and a second group among the plurality of digital speakers receives three valued digital signals from the second channel.

10. The digital speaker system according to claim 9 , comprising:

a third channel wherein the first channel is a left channel, the second channel is a right channel, and the third channel is a center channel, and

wherein a third group of the plurality of digital speakers among the plurality of digital speakers receives three valued digital signals from the third channel.

11. The digital speaker system according to claim 9 , comprising:

a third channel wherein a third group of the plurality of digital speakers among the plurality of digital speakers receives three valued digital signals from the first, second, or third channel.

12. The digital speaker system according to claim 10 , wherein

a speaker unit in the first channel and a speaker unit in the third channel are allocated dynamically and a speaker unit in the second channel and the speaker unit in the third channel are allocated dynamically.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF PATENT OWNER'S ADDRESS Recorded Feb 24, 2020
From: TRIGENCE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
To: TRIGENCE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
Reel/Frame 052003/0540 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 4, 2020
From: YASUDA, AKIRA; OKAMURA, JUNICHI
To: TRIGENCE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
Reel/Frame 051716/0404 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2006-140975 · May 21, 2006 · national
JP 2006-277476 · Oct 11, 2006 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 12285323 · Oct 1, 2008
Continuation PCTJP2007060072 · May 16, 2007
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