Speaker distortion compensation device and speaker unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12425786-B2
Application number	US-202318103558-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2023
Priority date	Feb 28, 2022
Publication date	Sep 23, 2025
Grant date	Sep 23, 2025

Abstract

A speaker has a magnetic angle sensor that detects the displacement of the vibration system of the speaker. A non-linearity compensation filter compensates for output distortion due to a non-linear parameter of the speaker. A transfer function of a linear inverse filter is applied so that output distortion is eliminated from the displacement, detected by the magnetic angle sensor, of the vibration system. A controller drives the speaker by using a test signal, and measures a response from the detected displacement of the vibration system. If error between the measured response and the theoretical value, theoretically determined from the design specifications, of the response is small, the controller uses the theoretical value, theoretically determined from the design specifications, of the non-linear parameter as an active non-linear parameter and sets, in the non-linearity compensation filter, a transfer function that compensates for distortion in an output due to the active non-linear parameter.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A speaker distortion compensation device configured to compensate for distortion in an output from a speaker with respect to an input signal, the speaker distortion compensation device comprising:
a sensor configured to detect vibration of a vibration system included in the speaker;
a non-linearity compensation filter configured to accept the input signal;
a tunable filter configured to accept an output from the non-linearity compensation filter and 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 in which a transfer function of the tunable filter is updated so that vibration detected by the sensor does not undergo distortion with respect to the input signal; and
a controller configured to perform, as an initial setting operation for the speaker distortion compensation device, an operation in which the controller calculates a non-linear parameter of the speaker as an active non-linear parameter and sets, in the non-linearity compensation filter, a transfer function that compensates for distortion in the output from the speaker with respect to the input signal, the distortion being due to the calculated active non-linear parameter;
wherein in the initial setting operation, the controller is configured to:
drive the speaker by using a predetermined test signal and measure a response from the speaker as a measured response value, the response being measured from vibration of the vibration system, the vibration being detected by the sensor with respect to the test signal,
calculate error between the measured response value and a theoretical response value, which is a theoretical value of the response from the speaker when the non-linear parameter of the speaker, the non-linear parameter being theoretically determined from design specifications of the speaker, is taken as a non-linear parameter theoretical value and the non-linear parameter theoretical value is the non-linear parameter of the speaker, and
calculate, when the calculated error is smaller than a threshold level, the non-linear parameter theoretical value as the active non-linear parameter.

2. The speaker distortion compensation device according to claim 1 , wherein when the calculated error is not smaller than the predetermined level, the controller is configured to calculate, as the active non-linear parameter, a non-linear parameter that causes the response from the speaker to adapt to the measured response value.

3. The speaker distortion compensation device according to claim 2 , wherein:
a plurality of pairs is stored in the controller, each pair being formed from a candidate active non-linear parameter, which is a candidate of the active non-linear parameter, and a reference response, which is the theoretical value of the response from the speaker when the candidate active non-linear parameter is the non-linear parameter of the speaker; and
when the calculated error is not smaller than the predetermined level, the controller is configured to calculate, as the active non-linear parameter, the candidate active non-linear parameter paired with the reference response closest to the measured response value.

4. The speaker distortion compensation device according to claim 3 , further comprising a status detection means that is configured to detect a status of the speaker;
wherein the controller is further configured to:
record, after an actual operation of the speaker distortion compensation device has started, a history of the status, detected by the status detection means, of the speaker, and
infer a change in the non-linear parameter of the speaker from the recorded history, update the active non-linear parameter so as to follow the inferred change, and set, in the non-linearity compensation filter, a transfer function that compensates for distortion in the output from the speaker with respect to the input signal, the distortion being due to the updated active non-linear parameter.

5. The speaker distortion compensation device according to claim 4 , wherein one of the non-linear parameters is a force factor in an equivalent circuit of the speaker.

6. A speaker unit comprising:
the speaker distortion compensation device according to claim 5 ; and
the speaker;
wherein the speaker distortion compensation device and the speaker are combined with each other.

7. The speaker distortion compensation device according to claim 2 , further comprising a status detection means that is configured to detect a status of the speaker;
wherein the controller is further configured to:
record, after an actual operation of the speaker distortion compensation device has started, a history of the status, detected by the status detection means, of the speaker, and
infer a change in the non-linear parameter of the speaker from the recorded history, update the active non-linear parameter so as to follow the inferred change, and set, in the non-linearity compensation filter, a transfer function that compensates for distortion in the output from the speaker with respect to the input signal, the distortion being due to the updated active non-linear parameter.

8. The speaker distortion compensation device according to claim 7 , wherein one of the non-linear parameters is a force factor in an equivalent circuit of the speaker.

9. A speaker unit comprising:
the speaker distortion compensation device according to claim 8 ; and
the speaker;
wherein the speaker distortion compensation device and the speaker are combined with each other.

Assignees

• Alps Alpine Co Ltd

Inventors

• Saito Yuji
• Egami Katsuhiko
• Taguchi Hiroyuki

Classifications

• H04R3/002

  Damping circuit arrangements for transducers, e.g. motional feedback circuits · CPC title

• H03G9/025

  frequency-dependent volume compression or expansion, e.g. multiple-band systems (H03G9/10, H03G9/18 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04R29/003

  of the moving-coil type · CPC title

• H04R2400/11

  Aspects regarding the frame of loudspeaker transducers · CPC title

• H04R9/025

  Magnetic circuit · CPC title