IP Library Granted Patent US 8,174,925
Granted Patent B2
US 8,174,925 · App. 12/586,303 · Granted May 8, 2012

Acoustic camera

Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
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Patent No.
US 8,174,925
App. No.
12/586,303
Granted
May 8, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An acoustic camera comprises a first sound pick-up device, a second sound pick-up device, and a switch. The switch is respectively connected to the first sound pick-up device and the second pick-up device and used to select the first sound pick-up device or the second sound pick-up device to reconstruct the sound field of the sound source of a detected object. The first sound pick-up device has a first microphone array, and the first microphone array is a near-field uniform microphone array. The second sound pick-up device has a second microphone array, and the second microphone array is a far-field non-uniform microphone array.

Claims (29)

1. An acoustic camera comprising

a first sound pick-up device and a second sound pick-up device both installed in said acoustic camera and used to pick up a sound source of a detected object;

a switch respectively connecting to said first sound pick-up device and said second sound pick-up device and used to select said first sound pick-up device or said second sound pick-up device to pick up a sound source of a detected object; and

a data-retrieving system connecting to said first sound pick-up device and said second sound pick-up device, receiving signals of a sound source of a detected object, processing said signals, and outputting processing results to a display module.

2. The acoustic camera according to claim 1 , wherein said data-retrieving system includes an acoustic inverse computation module, a delay-and-sum module, and an acoustic post-processor.

3. The acoustic camera according to claim 2 , wherein said first sound pick-up device is used to pick up a near-field sound field in a near-field mode.

4. The acoustic camera according to claim 3 , wherein said first sound pick-up device has a first microphone array containing a plurality of microphones.

5. The acoustic camera according to claim 4 , wherein when picking up a near-field sound field in said near-field mode, a highest sound frequency said acoustic camera can detect satisfies an equation:

f

max

=

c

2

d

Wherein d is a distance between two adjacent said microphones, and c is a velocity of wave (m/s), and f max is said highest sound frequency (Hz).

6. The acoustic camera according to claim 3 , wherein when picking up a near-field sound field in said near-field mode, said first sound pick-up device picks up a sound source of a detected object and outputs a sound field of said sound source to said data-retrieving system, and said acoustic inverse computation module of said data-retrieving system obtains source strength of said sound source of said detected object, and said acoustic post-processor obtains sound pressure, particle velocity, sound intensity and sound power of said sound source of said detected object; said source strength, said sound pressure, said particle velocity, said sound intensity and said sound power are output to said display module.

7. The acoustic camera according to claim 2 , wherein said second sound pick-up device is used to pick up a far-field sound field in a far-field mode.

8. The acoustic camera according to claim 7 , wherein said second sound pick-up device has a second microphone array containing a plurality of microphones; said second microphone array is a rectangular microphone array has first sides and second sides, and a length of each of said first sides is smaller than or equal to a length of each of said second sides.

9. The acoustic camera according to claim 8 , wherein when picking up a far-field sound field in said near-field mode, a lowest sound frequency said acoustic camera can detect satisfies an equation:

f

min

=

c

D

,

Wherein D is said length of each of said first sides, and c is velocity of wave (m/s), and f min is said lowest sound frequency (Hz).

10. The acoustic camera according to claim 7 , wherein when picking up a far-field sound field in said far-field mode, said second sound pick-up device picks up a sound source of a detected object and outputs a sound field of said sound source to said data-retrieving system; said delay-and-sum module of said data-retrieving system works out a strength of said sound source and outputs said strength to said display module.

11. The acoustic camera according to claim 1 , wherein said display module is a display screen.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 27, 2009
From: BAI, MINGSIAN R.; LIN, JIA-HONG; LIU, KUAN-LIANG
To: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
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Priority Claims (1)
TW 98113951 A · Apr 27, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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