Granted Patent B2

US 12,262,167 · App. 18/318,673 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Inventors: Chengqian Zhang (Shenzhen, CN); Jinbo Zheng (Shenzhen, CN); Le Xiao (Shenzhen, CN); Fengyun Liao (Shenzhen, CN); Xin Qi (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.

H04R1/1083G10K11/17857G10K2210/1081H04R2460/01

Abstract

Claims (33)

1. An open acoustic device, comprising: a fixing structure configured to place the acoustic device near an ear of a user without blocking an ear canal of the user; a first microphone array configured to acquire environmental noise; a signal processor configured to: determine, based on the environmental noise, a primary route transfer function between the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user; generate, based on the environmental noise and the primary route transfer function, a noise reduction signal; and a speaker configured to output, according to the noise reduction signal, a noise reduction acoustic wave, the noise reduction acoustic wave being configured to eliminate noise signal at the ear canal of the user, wherein determining, based on the environmental noise, the primary route transfer function between the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user includes: estimating, based on the environmental noise, a direction of a noise source; and determining the primary route transfer function according to the environmental noise, the direction of the noise source, and position information of the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user, wherein the speaker includes two sound guiding holes, and the first microphone array is located near a mid-perpendicular line of a connecting line between the two sound guiding holes so that the microphones is in a region where a sound pressure level of the speaker is minimum.

2. The open acoustic device of claim 1 , wherein the two sound guiding holes output a set of sound signals with approximately opposite phases.

3. The open acoustic device of claim 1 , wherein the two sound guiding holes output a set of sound signals with similar amplitudes.

4. The open acoustic device of claim 3 , wherein the position information of the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user includes a distance between the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user, and the determining the primary route transfer function according to the environmental noise, the direction of the noise source, and the position information of the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user includes: determining the primary route transfer function based on a frequency of the environmental noise, the direction of the noise source, and the distance between the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user.

5. The open acoustic device of claim 3 , wherein the estimating, based on environmental noise, a direction of a noise source includes: estimating the direction of the noise source through at least one of a beamforming algorithm, a super-resolution spatial spectrum estimation algorithm, or a time difference of arrival algorithm.

6. The open acoustic device of claim 1 , wherein in a frequency range of 150 Hz-2000 Hz, a noise reduction depth of the open acoustic device is 5 dB-25 dB.

7. The open acoustic device of claim 1 , further comprising a second microphone array configured to acquire environmental noise and the noise reduction acoustic wave;

the signal processor is configured to

estimate, based on the environmental noise acquired by the second microphone array and the noise reduction acoustic wave, noise at a first spatial position, the first spatial position being closer to the ear canal of the user than any microphone in the second microphone array; and

update, based on the noise at the first spatial position, the noise reduction signal.

8. The open acoustic device of claim 1 , further comprising a second microphone array configured to acquire environmental noise and the noise reduction acoustic wave;

the signal processor is configured to determine, based on a sound signal acquired by the second microphone array, an overall secondary route transfer function between the speaker and the ear canal of the user; and

generating, based on the environmental noise and the primary route transfer function, a noise reduction signal includes:

estimating, based on the environmental noise and the primary route transfer function, a noise signal at the ear canal of the user; and

estimating, according to the noise signal at the ear canal of the user and the overall secondary route transfer function, the noise reduction signal.

9. The open acoustic device of claim 8 , wherein the estimating, according to the noise signal at the ear canal of the user and the overall secondary route transfer function, the noise reduction signal includes:

estimating, based on the noise signal at the ear canal of the user, the noise reduction acoustic wave at the ear canal of the user; and

generating, based on the noise reduction acoustic wave at the ear canal of the user and the overall secondary route transfer function, the noise reduction signal.

10. The open acoustic device of claim 8 , wherein the determining, based on a sound signal picked by the second microphone array, an overall secondary route transfer function includes:

determining, based on the noise reduction acoustic wave output by the speaker and the sound signal acquired by the second microphone array, a first secondary route transfer function between the speaker and the second microphone array; and

determining, based on the first secondary route transfer function, the overall secondary route transfer function.

11. The open acoustic device of claim 10 , wherein the determining, based on the noise reduction acoustic wave output by the speaker and the sound signal picked up by the second microphone array picker, a first secondary route transfer function includes:

obtaining, based on the sound signal acquired by the second microphone array, the noise reduction acoustic wave acquired by the second microphone array; and

determining, based on the noise reduction acoustic wave output by the speaker and the noise reduction acoustic wave acquired by the second microphone array, the first secondary route transfer function.

12. The open acoustic device of claim 10 , wherein the determining, based on the first secondary route transfer function, the overall secondary route transfer function includes:

determining, based on the first secondary route transfer function, a second secondary route transfer function between the second microphone array and the ear canal of the user; and

determining, based on the first secondary route transfer function and the second secondary route transfer function, the overall secondary route transfer function.

13. The open acoustic device of claim 12 , wherein the determining, based on the first secondary route transfer function, a second secondary route transfer function includes:

obtaining the first secondary route transfer function; and

determining, based on the first secondary route transfer function, the second secondary route transfer function through a trained machine learning model or a preset model.

14. The open acoustic device of claim 13 , wherein the machine learning model includes a Gaussian mixture model or a deep neural network model.

15. A method for noise reduction, comprising: determining, based on environmental noise acquired by a first microphone array, a primary route transfer function between the first microphone array and an ear canal of the user; generating, based on the environmental noise and the primary route transfer function, a noise reduction signal; and causing a speaker to output, according to the noise reduction signal, a noise reduction acoustic wave, the noise reduction acoustic wave being configured to eliminate noise signal at the ear canal of the user, wherein determining, based on environmental noise acquired by a first microphone array, a primary route transfer function between the first microphone array and an ear canal of the user comprising: estimating, based on the environmental noise, a direction of a noise source; and determining the primary route transfer function according to the environmental noise, the direction of the noise source, and position information of the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user, wherein the speaker includes two sound guiding holes, and the first microphone array is located near a mid-perpendicular line of a connecting line between the two sound guiding holes so that the microphones is in a region where a sound pressure level of the speaker is minimum.

16. The method for noise reduction of claim 15 , wherein the position information of the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user includes a distance between the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user, and the determining the primary route transfer function according to the environmental noise, the direction of the noise source, and the position information of the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user includes: determining the primary route transfer function based on a frequency of the environmental noise, the direction of the noise source, and the distance between the first microphone array and the ear canal of the user.

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