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US 12,452,594 · App. 18/283,159 · Granted Oct 21, 2025

Active noise control device, active noise control method, and active noise control program

Inventor: Ryota Okawa (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: TRANSTRON INC.
H04R3/04H04R2400/01
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Patent No.
US 12,452,594
App. No.
18/283,159
Granted
Oct 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An active noise control device includes an adaptive filter that generates a control signal based on a vibration frequency generated by a vibration source and sequentially updating the adaptive filter, a reference signal generation device that generates a reference signal, an amplitude characteristic calculation device that acquires an acoustic characteristic including amplitude and phase information, the acoustic characteristic being an acoustic characteristic of a secondary path between a speaker and a microphone and calculating an amplitude characteristic of the secondary path, a smoothed signal generation device having a low-pass filter, a correction coefficient calculation device that calculates a correction coefficient according to a frequency, an adaptive filter update device that updates the adaptive filter by subtracting an update term including the correction coefficient from a first adaptive filter coefficient that is an immediately preceding adaptive filter coefficient, and a control signal generation device that generates the control signal.

Claims (28)

1. An active noise control device comprising:

a microphone and a speaker;

an adaptive filter that generates a control signal by performing signal processing on a reference signal generated based on a vibration frequency generated by a vibration source, and sequentially updating the adaptive filter based on a signal input from the microphone when the control signal is output from the speaker;

a reference signal generation unit that generates the reference signal;

an amplitude characteristic calculation unit that acquires an acoustic characteristic including amplitude and phase information, the acoustic characteristic being an acoustic characteristic of a secondary path between the speaker and the microphone, and calculates an amplitude characteristic of the secondary path having a different value according to a first frequency based on the acquired acoustic characteristic;

a smoothed signal generation unit having a low-pass filter, that smooths the amplitude characteristic using the low-pass filter and generates a smoothed signal having a different value according to a second frequency;

a correction coefficient calculation unit that calculates a correction coefficient having a different value according to a third frequency based on a result of dividing the amplitude characteristic by the smoothed signal;

an adaptive filter update unit that updates the adaptive filter by subtracting an update term including the correction coefficient from a first adaptive filter coefficient that is an immediately preceding adaptive filter coefficient to obtain a second adaptive filter coefficient; and

a control signal generation unit that generates the control signal by multiplying the reference signal by the second adaptive filter coefficient.

2. The active noise control device according to claim 1 , wherein the adaptive filter update unit includes

a threshold value set to 0.5 to 0.7; and

the adaptive filter update unit sets the correction coefficient to 0 when the correction coefficient is less than or equal to the threshold.

3. The active noise control device according to claim 1 , wherein the adaptive filter update unit subtracts the update term from a result obtained by multiplying the first adaptive filter coefficient by a coefficient of less than 1 to obtain the second adaptive filter coefficient.

4. The active noise control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the correction coefficient calculation unit sets a result of dividing the amplitude characteristic by the smoothed signal as the correction coefficient when the result is smaller than 1, and sets the correction coefficient to 1 when the result of dividing the amplitude characteristic by the smoothed signal is greater than or equal to 1.

5. An active noise control method comprising:

preparing an adaptive filter that generates a control signal by performing signal processing on a reference signal generated based on a vibration frequency generated by a vibration source, and sequentially updating the adaptive filter based on a signal input from a microphone when the control signal is output from a speaker, the active noise control method comprising the steps of:

acquiring an acoustic characteristic including amplitude and phase information, the acoustic characteristic being an acoustic characteristic of a secondary path between the speaker and the microphone, and calculating an amplitude characteristic of the secondary path having a different value according to a first frequency based on the acquired acoustic characteristic;

smoothing the amplitude characteristic using a low-pass filter and generating a smoothed signal having a different value according to a second frequency;

calculating a correction coefficient having a different value according to a third frequency based on a result of dividing the amplitude characteristic by the smoothed signal;

updating the adaptive filter by subtracting an update term including the correction coefficient from a first adaptive filter coefficient that is an immediately preceding adaptive filter coefficient to obtain a second adaptive filter coefficient; and

generating the control signal by multiplying the reference signal by the second adaptive filter coefficient.

6. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program that causes a computer of an active noise control to control a noise using an adaptive filter that generates a control signal by performing signal processing on a reference signal generated based on a vibration frequency generated by a vibration source, and sequentially updating the adaptive filter based on a signal input from a microphone when the control signal is output from a speaker, the computer executing the steps of:

acquiring an acoustic characteristic including amplitude and phase information, the acoustic characteristic being an acoustic characteristic of a secondary path between the speaker and the microphone, and calculating an amplitude characteristic of the secondary path having a different value according to a first frequency based on the acquired acoustic characteristic;

smoothing the amplitude characteristic using a low-pass filter and generating a smoothed signal having a different value according to a second frequency;

calculating a correction coefficient having a different value according to a third frequency based on a result of dividing the amplitude characteristic by the smoothed signal;

updating the adaptive filter by subtracting an update term including the correction coefficient from a first adaptive filter coefficient that is an immediately preceding adaptive filter coefficient to obtain a second adaptive filter coefficient; and

generating the control signal by multiplying the reference signal by the second adaptive filter coefficient.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 20, 2023
From: OKAWA, RYOTA
To: TRANSTRON INC.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-050005 · Mar 24, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
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