Noise reduction device and noise reduction system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10679600-B2
Application number	US-201816221459-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2018
Priority date	Jul 7, 2016
Publication date	Jun 9, 2020
Grant date	Jun 9, 2020

Abstract

With the noise reduction device (300), in identifying an acoustic transfer function that includes a path from the control speaker (340) to the error microphone (350) or the noise microphone (320) by outputting an identification sound from the control speaker (340) and detecting the identification sound with the error microphone (350) or the noise microphone (320), the identification controller (338) is configured to identify the acoustic transfer function by generating the identification sound from the white noise generator (337) when the seat detector (582) has detected that the seat is in the actual usage state for noise reduction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A noise reduction system comprising:
a plurality of noise reduction devices each comprising:
a noise detection section configured to detect noise;
a noise control section configured to generate a control sound signal for reducing the noise detected by the noise detection section at a control center of a control space inside a seat;
a control sound output section configured to output a control sound on the basis of the control sound signal from the noise control section;
an error sound detection section configured to detect an error sound by superimposing the noise at the control center with the control sound outputted from the control sound output section; and
a seat detection section configured to detect that a seat is in an actual usage state for noise reduction, wherein:
the noise control section has an identification sound generation section and an identification control section,
identifying an acoustic transfer function that includes a path from the control sound output section to the error sound detection section or the noise detection section by outputting an identification sound from the control sound output section and detecting the identification sound with the error sound detection section or the noise detection section, and
the identification control section is configured to identify the acoustic transfer function by generating the identification sound from the identification sound generation section when the seat detection section has detected that the seat is in the actual usage state for noise reduction, and

a system management device configured to manage how the plurality of noise reduction devices perform the identification of the acoustic transfer function,
wherein the system management device is further configured to notify a seat driver for driving the seat to drive the seat having a noise reduction device so as to put the seat in its actual usage state, starts the identification of the noise reduction devices included in the noise reduction system, and in the system management device, it is registered that identification has been executed.

2. The noise reduction system according to claim 1 , wherein the seat detection section is configured to detect that there is no person in the seat on the basis of a reclining state of the seat, ambient sound, or camera images.

3. The noise reduction system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the system management device includes a maintenance crew terminal section configured to drive and control an onboard system or the seat that maintenance is in progress on during maintenance of the onboard system by an engineer when no passenger is in the seat, and
the maintenance crew terminal section notify the noise reduction device that maintenance is in progress.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kubota Kenichi

Classifications

• G10K11/17817

  between the output signals and the error signals, i.e. secondary path · CPC title

• G10K2210/3035

  Models, e.g. of the acoustic system · CPC title

• H04R2410/05

  Noise reduction with a separate noise microphone · CPC title

• G10K11/17813 Primary

  characterised by the analysis of the acoustic paths, e.g. estimating, calibrating or testing of transfer functions or cross-terms · CPC title

• G10K2210/3055

  Transfer function of the acoustic system · CPC title