Speaker distortion correction device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12035115-B2
Application number	US-202217860861-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2022
Priority date	Jul 16, 2021
Publication date	Jul 9, 2024
Grant date	Jul 9, 2024

Abstract

In a speaker distortion correction device, an input signal passes through a nonlinear-portion correction filter and is input into a linear inverse filter. An output signal from the linear inverse filter is output into a speaker through an amplifier. For the nonlinear-portion correction filter, transfer characteristics (filter coefficients) are set that eliminate distortion due to nonlinear characteristics of the speaker. With a difference, as an error, between vibration of the speaker without distortion relative to an input signal and vibration of a vibration system of the speaker measured by a vibration measurement unit, an adaptive-algorithm execution unit performs an adaptive operation that adaptively updates filter coefficients of the linear inverse filter. When the amplitude of vibration of the vibration system of the speaker measured by the vibration measurement unit deviates from a range that normal relative to an input voltage input into the speaker, a control unit stops the adaptive operation of the adaptive-algorithm execution unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A speaker distortion correction device for correcting distortion of output from a speaker relative to an input signal, the speaker distortion correction device comprising:
a vibration detection unit configured to detect vibration of a vibration system of the speaker;
a variable filter into which the input signal is input, the variable filter being configured to output an output signal that drives the speaker;
an adaptive-algorithm execution unit configured to execute a predetermined adaptive algorithm to perform an adaptive operation that updates a transfer characteristic of the variable filter so that vibration detected by the vibration detection unit becomes vibration without distortion relative to the input signal; and
a control unit,
wherein the control unit is configured to
determine whether or not an amplitude of vibration detected by the vibration detection unit deviates from a range considered normal relative to a level of an output signal output by the variable filter, and
when the amplitude of the vibration detected by the vibration detection unit deviates from the range considered normal relative to the level of the output signal output by the variable filter, stop an update on the transfer characteristic of the variable filter updated by the adaptive operation of the adaptive-algorithm execution unit.

2. The speaker distortion correction device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit is configured to,
when the amplitude of vibration detected by the vibration detection unit deviates, in an excess direction, from the range considered normal, check whether or not a center of the amplitude of the vibration detected by the vibration detection unit is positionally deviated from a defined center position,
when the center is positionally deviated from the defined center position, estimate stiffness of the vibration system of the speaker from an input voltage input into the speaker, an input electric current input into the speaker, and the vibration detected by the vibration detection unit, and
when the estimated stiffness is smaller than a defined stiffness range, estimate occurrence of a mechanical malfunction of the vibration system of the speaker.

3. The speaker distortion correction device according to claim 2 , further comprising
an amplifier configured to drive the speaker by an output signal output by the variable filter,
wherein the control unit is configured to,
when the amplitude of vibration detected by the vibration detection unit deviates, in the excess direction, from the range considered normal, and the center of the amplitude of the vibration detected by the vibration detection unit is not positionally deviated from the defined center position, estimate a relationship between stiffness of the vibration system of the speaker and a positional deviation of the vibration system from an input voltage input into the speaker, an input electric current input into the speaker, and the vibration detected by the vibration detection unit,
when, in the estimated relationship, a variation in the stiffness relative to the positional deviation of the vibration system is gentle, check whether or not the input electric current input into the speaker relative to the input voltage input into the speaker is smaller than a defined magnitude, and
when the input electric current input into the speaker relative to the input voltage input into the speaker is smaller than the defined magnitude, estimate occurrence of a heating abnormality of the speaker.

4. The speaker distortion correction device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit is configured to,
when the amplitude of vibration detected by the vibration detection unit deviates, in an insufficiency direction, from the range considered normal, determine whether or not clipping within an allowable vibration range has occurred, the clipping within the allowable vibration range being a phenomenon in which a peak portion of waveform of the vibration detected by the vibration detection unit does not reach an upper or lower limit of the allowable vibration range of the vibration system of the speaker and is saturated and deformed at a fixed level, and
when clipping has occurred, estimate occurrence of an abnormality that the vibration of the vibration system of the speaker is obstructed by an external object.

5. The speaker distortion correction device according to claim 4 , further comprising
an amplifier configured to drive the speaker by an output signal output by the variable filter,
wherein the control unit is configured to,
when the amplitude of vibration detected by the vibration detection unit deviates, in the insufficiency direction, from the range considered normal and clipping within the allowable vibration range has not occurred, estimate a relationship between stiffness of the vibration system of the speaker and a positional deviation of the vibration system from an input voltage input into the speaker, an input electric current input into the speaker, and the vibration detected by the vibration detection unit,
when in the estimated relationship, a variation in the stiffness relative to the positional deviation of the vibration system is steep, check whether or not the input electric current input into the speaker relative to the input voltage input into the speaker is larger than a defined magnitude, and
when the input electric current input into the speaker relative to the input voltage input into the speaker is larger than the defined magnitude, estimate occurrence of a heating abnormality of the speaker.

6. The speaker distortion correction device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the control unit is configured to,
when the amplitude of vibration detected by the vibration detection unit deviates, in the insufficiency direction, from the range considered normal, clipping within the allowable vibration range has not occurred, a variation in stiffness of the vibration system of the speaker relative to a positional deviation of the vibration system is steep, and an input electric current input into the speaker relative to an input voltage input into the speaker is not larger than the defined magnitude, check whether or not an environmental temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, and
when the environmental temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature, estimate occurrence of a freezing abnormality of the speaker.

7. A speaker distortion correction device for correcting distortion of output from a speaker relative to an input signal, the speaker distortion correction device comprising:
a vibration detection unit configured to detect vibration of a vibration system of the speaker;
a nonlinear-portion correction filter into which the input signal is input;
a variable filter into which output from the nonlinear-portion correction filter is input, the variable filter being configured to output an output signal that drives the speaker;
an adaptive-algorithm execution unit configured to execute a predetermined adaptive algorithm to perform an adaptive operation that updates a transfer characteristic of the variable filter so that vibration detected by the vibration detection unit becomes vibration without distortion relative to the input signal; and
a control unit,
wherein a transfer characteristic is set for the nonlinear-portion correction filter, the transfer characteristic correcting distortion of output from the speaker relative to the input signal due to a nonlinear characteristic of the speaker, and
wherein the control unit is configured to
determine whether or not an amplitude of vibration detected by the vibration detection unit deviates from a range considered normal relative to a level of an output signal output by the

Assignees

• Alps Alpine Co Ltd

Inventors

• Saito Yuji
• Toita Hiroki
• Taguchi Hiroyuki
• Tachi Ryosuke
• Mashiko Tatsuya

Classifications

• H04R2499/13

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• H04R3/002

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• H04R29/001 Primary

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• H04R3/007 Primary

  Protection circuits for transducers · CPC title

• H04R3/00

  Circuits for transducers (arrangements for producing a reverberation or echo sound G10K15/08; amplifiers H03F) · CPC title