EP4133476A1 - Procédé, dispositif, casque d'écoute et programme informatique pour supprimer activement un bruit d'interférence - Google Patents

Procédé, dispositif, casque d'écoute et programme informatique pour supprimer activement un bruit d'interférence

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EP4133476A1
EP4133476A1 EP21717392.1A EP21717392A EP4133476A1 EP 4133476 A1 EP4133476 A1 EP 4133476A1 EP 21717392 A EP21717392 A EP 21717392A EP 4133476 A1 EP4133476 A1 EP 4133476A1
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Johannes Fabry
Peter Jax
Stefan Liebich
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    • G—PHYSICS
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    • G10K—SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • G10K11/1781—Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general using interference effects; Masking sound by electro-acoustically regenerating the original acoustic waves in anti-phase characterised by the analysis of input or output signals, e.g. frequency range, modes, transfer functions
    • G10K11/17813—Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general using interference effects; Masking sound by electro-acoustically regenerating the original acoustic waves in anti-phase characterised by the analysis of input or output signals, e.g. frequency range, modes, transfer functions characterised by the analysis of the acoustic paths, e.g. estimating, calibrating or testing of transfer functions or cross-terms
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  • the present invention relates to a method for active noise suppression.
  • the present invention also relates to an apparatus for carrying out the method.
  • the invention also relates to headphones that are set up to carry out a method according to the invention or have a device according to the invention, and a computer program with instructions that cause a computer to carry out the steps of the method.
  • An additional sound signal is artificially generated, which corresponds to that of the interfering sound as exactly as possible, but with opposite polarity, in order to then cancel out the disturbing noises as far as possible by superimposing the two sound signals by means of destructive interference.
  • one or more microphones integrated in the headphones measure the ambient noise and then use the headphones' acoustic transfer function to calculate the amount that would remain on the ear.
  • the opposite polarity signal is generated in the headphones for compensation and output by means of a loudspeaker, via which the useful sound is also reproduced.
  • Modern ANC headphones usually use fixed feedforward and feedback filters for this purpose and thus enable an attenuation of up to 30 dB at low frequencies, but the filter performance depends sensitively on the respective seat of the headphones and the respective ear shape of the user.
  • adaptive algorithms can also be considered in order to improve the level of noise suppression.
  • Such adaptive algorithms require a high computing power and are therefore unsuitable at present in headphones, hearables or hearing aids.
  • Most commercially available ANC headphones are equipped with a built-in loudspeaker and two microphones. One of the microphones is directed towards the headphone environment in order to measure a reference signal in the form of ambient noise and is often referred to as a reference microphone.
  • the other microphone is directed towards the ear canal or eardrum of the user in order to determine an internal error signal and is also known as the error microphone.
  • the acoustic transmission from the external reference microphone to the internal error microphone is called the primary path, the transmission from the loudspeaker to the error microphone is called the secondary path.
  • the secondary path can be measured using the loudspeaker and the inner microphone, whereby the signal-to-noise ratio at the inner microphone is quite high due to the passive isolation of the headphones costly and not easy to carry out for end users.
  • the invention makes use of the knowledge that, in particular with in-ear headphones, but also with headphones with other designs, there can be a significant correlation between the frequency spectra of primary and secondary paths and this can be used to even without measuring the Primary path to achieve an optimization of the noise suppression.
  • a transfer function for a secondary path between a loudspeaker and an error microphone is measured.
  • a transfer function for a primary path between a reference microphone and the error microphone is estimated.
  • filter coefficients for filtering to generate the cancellation signal are determined.
  • At least one reference microphone detects interfering sound signals
  • a loudspeaker outputs a canceling signal
  • an error microphone detects the remaining signal after the canceling signal has been superimposed on the interfering sound signal.
  • active noise suppression is carried out when reproducing a useful audio signal using headphones, with one or more reference microphones being located on the outside of the headphones and the error microphone being located on the inside of the headphones.
  • the transfer function for the secondary path is preferably measured individually for a user and an individual transfer function for the primary path is estimated for the user based on the individually measured transfer function for the secondary path.
  • the filtering is advantageously carried out by means of a forward FIR filter or IIR filter.
  • an estimation function for the primary path is determined by measuring and analyzing both the transfer function for the secondary path and the transfer function for the primary path in advance in a training process for different people and / or fits of the headphones.
  • a main component analysis with subsequent dimensional reduction of the measured values obtained in the training process is carried out for measured values in frequency ranges of the transfer functions in which there are deterministic changes for the primary path and the secondary path; complex gain vectors for the primary paths and the secondary paths are determined based on principal components and mean values determined by the principal component analysis; and a linear mapping which minimizes the error between the determined and the estimated gain vectors of the primary paths is determined.
  • the digital filter is designed as an FIR filter or IIR filter.
  • the invention also relates to headphones that are set up to carry out the method according to the invention or have a device according to the invention, as well as a computer program with instructions which cause a computer to carry out the steps of the method according to the invention.
  • 1 shows schematically an in-ear headphone with a primary and secondary acoustic path
  • 2 shows a flow chart of the method according to the invention for active noise suppression
  • Fig. 3 shows a block diagram of a headphone according to the invention
  • Figure 7 shows a box graph for the energy ratio for various primary path estimates
  • Fig. 8 shows schematically the use of headphones in connection with an external computing device
  • the inventive method can in particular for active
  • Noise suppression in in-ear headphones can be used.
  • the in-ear headphones 10 are located on the ear of a user, with an ear insert 14 of the in-ear headphones being introduced into the external auditory canal 15 in order to hold them in place.
  • the ear insert can, depending on the individual position in the ear canal, partially shield external interference noises so that they are Interfering noises then only reach the eardrum 16 of the user at a reduced level.
  • An interfering sound signal x (t) arriving from the environment on the headphones is recorded with a reference microphone 11, which is directed away from the ear canal 13, which is located in the vicinity of the error microphone 12, on.
  • a cancellation signal y (t) can be output by means of the loudspeaker 13.
  • the error microphone 12 detects the remaining signal e (t) after a superposition of the cancellation signal y (t) with the interfering sound signal x (t).
  • the primary acoustic path P a (s) describes the transfer function from the reference microphone 11 to the error microphone 12
  • the secondary acoustic path S a (s) describes the transfer function from the loudspeaker 13 to the error microphone 12.
  • the in-ear headphones shown only have one reference microphone, but several reference microphones can also be used, for each of which a separate primary path exists
  • FIG. 2 shows schematically the basic concept for a method for active noise suppression, as it can be carried out, for example, with such in-ear headphones.
  • a transfer function for a secondary path between the loudspeaker and the error microphone is measured.
  • a transfer function for a primary path between the reference microphone and the error microphone is then estimated. For this purpose, use is made of the relationships between the primary path and secondary path in the present headphones, which are determined in a training phase, which will be described below.
  • the estimated transfer function then allows filter coefficients to be determined for a filter for generating the cancellation signal.
  • the filter can then be adapted so that the output cancellation signal enables the best possible compensation of the interference signal to prevent or at least reduce impairment of the user's perception by interfering noises when a useful audio signal is played back by means of the in-ear headphones.
  • the user can also suppress background noise without playing a Useful audio signal can be perceived as more pleasant, for example when it is traveling by train or plane and the volume level is reduced as a result.
  • FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a device according to the invention, the analog unit 30 with the hardware components from FIG the loudspeaker 13 is connected.
  • the electronic backend comprises a digital filter unit 34 and a processor unit 35.
  • the device according to the invention can be fully integrated into an ANC headset or also partially part of an external device, such as a smartphone.
  • the processor unit 35 can be part of such an external device.
  • the processor unit 35 here has one or more digital signal processors, but can also contain processors of other types or combinations thereof.
  • the digital filter 34 is designed as a time-invariant FIR forward filter W (z), which receives the digitally converted interference signal x (n) and generates the cancellation signal y (n).
  • the digital filter 34 can also be designed as an IIR filter, usually as a biquad filter.
  • the digital signal processor 35 generates a measurement signal m (n) and evaluates the digitized error signal e (n) in order to measure the secondary path.
  • the filter coefficients of the digital filter W (z) are adapted by the digital signal processor Procedure to be carried out.
  • the overall transfer function H (s) describes the transfer function from reference microphone 11 to error microphone 12 and, in contrast to the primary path, includes the influence of the ANC system.
  • the primary path P (z) and the secondary path S (z) contain the influence of the analog-digital converter and the digital-analog converter, the loudspeaker and the microphones.
  • the overall transmission path is then defined as
  • H (z) P (z) - W (z) S (z).
  • s and z denote the complex frequency parameters of the Laplace and z transformation and n denotes a discrete time index.
  • the optimal FIR forward filter iv minimizes the average of the energy of the entire transmission path, such as by the the following cost function is defined: with the primary path vector expanded by zeros and convolution matrix s ; for the
  • the individual secondary path can be measured with the loudspeaker and the internal error microphone of the headphones. Then if the individual secondary paths for all S j are replaced in the above formula and the average of the primary paths in T, ie is used as an estimate for p, one obtains for the optimal filter for a given individual secondary path:
  • this correlation can be used to establish an estimator for an individual primary path based on the characteristics of a measured individual secondary path.
  • the frequency ranges of the transfer functions that are affected by deterministic changes are extracted with window functions Q p (z) and Q s (z) in the z domain
  • PCA principal component analysis
  • the complex gain vectors g p, j and g s, j minimize the Euclidean distance between the reconstructed frequency domain vectors based on the main components and the frequency domain vectors of the primary path and secondary path.
  • a linear map is then used that represents the Gain vectors g p, j of the primary path are projected onto the gain vectors of the secondary path g s, j
  • the window function Q s (z) in the z-range is applied to the measured secondary path and then the gain vector g s, j for the secondary path is calculated using the main components and the mean value of the secondary path.
  • the gain vector g p, j for the primary path is then first of all determined by means of the linear mapping estimated, followed by an estimate of the primary path based on the principal components as well as the mean of the primary path and the estimated gain vector g p, j for the primary path. Finally, by replacing with the estimate of the the individual forward filter for each primary path.
  • the effectiveness of the proposed estimator was checked with simulations, the results of which are presented below. For this purpose, measurements were carried out on in-ear headphones for 25 test persons and different fits, with a sampling rate of 48 kHz being used.
  • FIG. 4 shows the spectra of the measured primary paths (a) and secondary paths (b).
  • the shaded frequency range 40 indicates the range of the selected frequency range window.
  • the set of measured primary and secondary paths was randomly divided into two subsets, with a training set 80% and a validation set the other 20% of the set of measured paths.
  • the training set was used to train the estimator as described above.
  • the performance of the estimator was then validated by testing the overall transfer path, with the measurement 100 times being random divided subsets was repeated.
  • FIG. 5 shows the measured magnitude spectra ⁇ H (z) ⁇ , the filter design in a) being based on the individual secondary paths and the average primary path and in b) on the individual secondary paths and the respective estimated primary path 50% percentiles 52 and 90% percentiles 53 of ⁇ H (z) ⁇ also the median 51 of the primary path
  • FIG. 6 shows the median of the primary path
  • H avg (z) is based on the mean value of the primary paths of the training set
  • H est (z) is based on a primary path estimate, as is H ppg (z), but with a perfect PCA gain vector (PPG) g p instead of it Estimate is used
  • H opt (z) is based on the actual primary path.
  • > 0, marks the frequency range in which H (z) is influenced by the primary path estimator.
  • the figure shows that the median of the spectrum
  • the box graph in FIG. 7 shows the energy ratio in dB for the various primary path estimates from FIG. 6 (a) mean, b) estimate, c) estimate with PPG, d) optimum when the actual primary path is known).
  • the energy ratio e of the total windowed transmission path and the primary path using Q p (z) is defined as
  • the median and the minimum, the so-called lower whisker, and the maximum, the so-called upper whisker are shown as horizontal lines and the lower quartile and upper quartile as a rectangle surrounding the median
  • the energy ratio e is reduced by 3.1 dB compared to the use of the mean value (a) when using the estimator (b) of the median, while the difference between the maximum values, the so-called upper whiskers, is 5.0 dB
  • FIG. 8 schematically shows the use of headphones 10, such as a so-called hearable, in connection with an external computer device 80.
  • the external computer device 80 can in particular be a mobile terminal that is suitable for audio playback , a so-called wearable, such as a smartwatch, a fitness bracelet or data glasses, or a computer tablet are connected to the headphones.
  • the devices communicate wirelessly via a radio link such as Bluetooth. After the connection has been established, audio signals can be transmitted from the external computer device 80 to the headphones 10 and then reproduced in a conventional manner with one or more loudspeakers integrated in the headphones.
  • a radio link such as Bluetooth.
  • the active noise suppression according to the invention can also be carried out by means of the external computer device 80.
  • the external computer device 80 in particular when a user is using the headphones 10 for the first time, can transmit a measurement signal to the headphones, which is then output by a loudspeaker integrated in the headphones.
  • the error microphone detects the error signal, which is transmitted to the external computer device 80.
  • the external computer device 80 calculates the secondary path, estimates the primary path and then determines the filter coefficients for the filter for generating the cancellation signal.
  • the filter coefficients are then sent via the wireless connection from the external computer device 80 to the headphones 10, in which the filter is adapted accordingly, so that interfering noises are largely suppressed when the audio signals are reproduced.
  • the invention can be used for active noise suppression in any areas of audio reproduction technology.

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Selon l'invention, le procédé permettant de supprimer activement un bruit d'interférence consiste à mesurer une fonction de transfert d'un trajet secondaire entre un haut-parleur et un microphone d'erreur (20). Une fonction de transfert d'un trajet primaire entre un microphone de référence et le microphone d'erreur est estimée (21) à partir de la fonction de transfert mesurée du trajet secondaire. Des coefficients de filtre d'une unité de filtre permettant de générer le signal d'effacement sont ensuite déterminés (22) à partir de la fonction de transfert estimée du trajet primaire.
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