Noise reduction device, vehicle, and noise reduction method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11568851-B2
Application number	US-202217568373-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 4, 2022
Priority date	Jan 7, 2021
Publication date	Jan 31, 2023
Grant date	Jan 31, 2023

Abstract

An active noise reduction device includes: a reference signal inputter; an adaptive filter; a μ adjuster that calculates a step size parameter by multiplying a reference value for the step size parameter by a correction coefficient that is proportional to a reciprocal of a first representative input value that indicates a signal level of the reference signal in a first predetermined period; a filter coefficient updater that updates adaptive filter coefficient W by using the step size parameter calculated; and a determiner. When it is determined that a second representative input value is greater than a threshold value, at least one of the adaptive filter or the filter coefficient updater is transitioned from a normal state to a restriction state in which an effect of reducing noise is smaller than in the normal state.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An active noise reduction device comprising:
a reference signal inputter to which a reference signal that has a correlation with noise in a space in a vehicle is input, the reference signal being output by a reference signal source attached to the vehicle;
an adaptive filter that generates a cancelling signal by adaptively filtering the reference signal, the cancelling signal being used to output a cancelling sound for reducing the noise;
a cancelling signal outputter to which the cancelling signal generated is output;
a cancelling sound source that generates a cancelling sound to correspond to the cancelling signal;
an error signal inputter to which an error signal is input, the error signal corresponding to a residual sound generated by interference between the cancelling sound and the noise;
a simulated acoustic sound transfer characteristics filter that generates a filtered reference signal by correcting the reference signal by using simulated transfer characteristics obtained by simulating acoustic sound transfer characteristics from the cancelling signal outputter to the error signal inputter;
a μ adjuster that calculates a step size parameter by multiplying a reference value for the step size parameter by a correction coefficient that is proportional to a reciprocal of a first representative input value that indicates a signal level of the reference signal or the filtered reference signal in a first predetermined period;
a filter coefficient updater that updates a coefficient of the adaptive filter by using the error signal, the filtered reference signal generated, and the step size parameter calculated; and
a determiner that determines whether a second representative input value is greater than a threshold value, the second representative input value indicating a signal level of the reference signal or the filtered reference signal in a second predetermined period that is shorter than the first predetermined period,
wherein at least one of the adaptive filter or the filter coefficient updater is transitioned from a normal state to a restriction state in which an effect of reducing the noise is smaller than in the normal state when it is determined that the second representative input value is greater than the threshold value.

2. The active noise reduction device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the determiner determines whether the first representative input value is less than or equal to a first threshold value in addition to determining whether the second representative input value is greater than a second threshold value that is the threshold value,
when it is determined that the second representative input value is greater than the second threshold value and the first representative input value is less than or equal to the first threshold value, at least one of the adaptive filter or the filter coefficient updater is transitioned from the normal state to the restriction state.

3. The active noise reduction device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the determiner determines whether a ratio of the first representative input value to the second representative input value is less than or equal to a predetermined value in addition to determining whether the second representative input value is greater than a second threshold value that is the threshold value, and
when it is determined that the second representative input value is greater than the second threshold value and the ratio of the first representative input value to the second representative input value is less than or equal to the predetermined value, at least one of the adaptive filter or the filter coefficient updater is transitioned from the normal state to the restriction state.

4. The active noise reduction device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the filter coefficient updater in the restriction state stops update of the coefficient of the adaptive filter.

5. The active noise reduction device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the filter coefficient updater in the restriction state updates the coefficient of the adaptive filter by using a step size parameter obtained by multiplying the step size parameter calculated by a coefficient that is greater than 0 and smaller than 1.

6. The active noise reduction device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the adaptive filter in the restriction state generates the cancelling signal by applying the adaptive filter to the reference signal multiplied by a coefficient that is greater than 0 and smaller than 1.

7. The active noise reduction device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the adaptive filter in the restriction state generates the cancelling signal by applying the adaptive filter obtained by multiplying the reference signal by a coefficient that is greater than 0 and smaller than 1.

8. The active noise reduction device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the adaptive filter in the restriction state multiplies the cancelling signal generated, by a coefficient that is greater than 0 and smaller than 1, and outputs a multiplication result.

9. A vehicle comprising:
the active noise reduction device according to claim 1 ; and
the reference signal source.

10. An active noise reduction method that is executed by an active noise reduction device,
the active noise reduction device including:
a reference signal inputter to which a reference signal that has a correlation with noise in a space in a vehicle is input, the reference signal being output by a reference signal source attached to the vehicle;
an adaptive filter that generates a cancelling signal by adaptively filtering the reference signal, the cancelling signal being used to output a cancelling sound for reducing the noise;
a cancelling signal outputter to which the cancelling signal generated is output;
a cancelling sound source that generates a cancelling sound to correspond to the cancelling signal;
an error signal inputter to which an error signal is input, the error signal corresponding to a residual sound generated by interference between the cancelling sound and the noise;
a simulated acoustic sound transfer characteristics filter that generates a filtered reference signal by correcting the reference signal by using simulated transfer characteristics obtained by simulating acoustic sound transfer characteristics from the cancelling signal outputter to the error signal inputter;
a μ adjuster that calculates a step size parameter by multiplying a reference value for the step size parameter by a correction coefficient that is proportional to a reciprocal of a first representative input value that indicates a signal level of the reference signal or the filtered reference signal in a first predetermined period; and
a filter coefficient updater that updates a coefficient of the adaptive filter by using the error signal, the filtered reference signal generated, and the step size parameter calculated, and
the active noise reduction method comprising:
determining whether a second representative input value is greater than a threshold value, the second representative input value indicating a signal level of the reference signal or the filtered reference signal in a second predetermined period that is shorter than the first predetermined period; and
transitioning at least one of the adaptive filter or the filter coefficient updater from a normal state to a restriction state in which an effect of reducing the noise is smaller than in the normal state when it is determined that the second representative input value is greater than the threshold value.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tani Mitsuhiro

Classifications

• G10K2210/1282

  Automobiles · CPC title

• G10K11/17881

  the reference signal being an acoustic signal, e.g. recorded with a microphone · CPC title

• G10K2210/3026

  Feedback · CPC title

• G10K2210/3028

  Filtering, e.g. Kalman filters or special analogue or digital filters · CPC title

• G10K11/17854 Primary

  the filter being an adaptive filter · CPC title