Signal processor, noise canceling system, signal processing method, and program
View Patent ↗According to the present disclosure, an additional sound generating unit detects, as a noise frequency, a frequency of a noise at a control point and generates an additional sound signal including signal components with additional frequencies different from the noise frequency. A canceling signal generating unit generates a canceling signal that cancels the noise at the control point. An emission unit outputs a control sound signal, generated by adding the additional sound signal to the canceling signal, to a loudspeaker and makes the loudspeaker emit the control sound.
1. A signal processor comprising:
an additional sound generating unit configured to detect, as a noise frequency, a frequency of a noise produced from a noise source and to generate an additional sound signal including a signal component with an additional frequency different from the noise frequency;
a canceling signal generating unit configured to generate a canceling signal for canceling the noise at a control point that the noise and a control sound emitted from a sound emitter reach based on the noise collected at the control point; and
an emission unit configured to output a control sound signal, generated by adding the additional sound signal to the canceling signal, to the sound emitter and to make the sound emitter emit the control sound,
a ratio of the additional frequency to the noise frequency being a ratio of integers.
2. The signal processor of claim 1 , wherein the noise frequency is a frequency of the noise at the control point.
3. The signal processor of claim 1 , wherein the ratio of the additional frequency to the noise frequency is at least one of 5/4, 3/2, or 5/3.
4. The signal processor of claim 1 , wherein the additional sound generating unit is configured to generate the additional sound signal including respective signal components with a plurality of the additional frequencies corresponding to the noise frequency.
5. The signal processor of claim 4 , wherein respective powers of the additional sound signal at the plurality of additional frequencies have values on a virtual line that has a constant gradient with respect to a frequency represented by a logarithmic axis.
6. The signal processor of claim 5 , wherein the gradient is equal to zero.
7. The signal processor of claim 1 , wherein the signal component with the additional frequency has a sinusoidal waveform.
8. The signal processor of claim 1 , wherein the additional sound generating unit is configured to detect, as the noise frequency, a frequency at which power of the noise picked up at the control point reaches a local maximum value.
9. The signal processor of claim 1 , wherein
the additional sound generating unit is configured to detect, as the noise frequency, a frequency of a periodic noise out of the noise.
10. The signal processor of claim 1 , further comprising a subtractor configured to generate an error signal by removing a signal component of the additional sound signal from a signal representing the sound picked up at the control point, wherein
the additional sound generating unit is configured to detect the noise frequency based on the error signal.
11. The signal processor claim 1 , wherein
the canceling signal generating unit includes:
a noise control filter, for which a first filter coefficient is set and which is configured to generate the canceling signal by receiving a noise signal that is a signal representing the noise picked up by a sound collector at the control point and by performing arithmetic processing based on the noise signal and the first filter coefficient;
a correction filter, for which a sound wave transmission characteristic from the sound emitter to the sound collector is set as a second filter coefficient, and which is configured to generate a reference signal by performing arithmetic processing based on the noise signal and the second filter coefficient; and
a coefficient updating unit configured to obtain the first filter coefficient based on the reference signal and update the first filter coefficient of the noise control filter.
12. A noise canceling system comprising:
the signal processor of claim 1 ;
a sound collector configured to convert a sound picked up at the control point into a picked up signal, and output the picked up signal to the signal processor; and
a sound emitter configured to receive the control sound signal and emit the control sound.
13. A signal processing method comprising:
detecting, as a noise frequency, a frequency of a noise produced from a noise source to generate an additional sound signal including a signal component with an additional frequency different from the noise frequency;
generating a canceling signal for canceling the noise at a control point that the noise and a control sound emitted from a sound emitter reach based on the noise collected at the control point; and
outputting a control sound signal, generated by adding the additional sound signal to the canceling signal, to the sound emitter to make the sound emitter emit the control sound; and
setting a ratio of the additional frequency to the noise frequency at a ratio of integers.
14. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program designed to make a computer system execute the signal processing method of claim 13 .