WO2004100603A1 - アレースピーカーシステム - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an array speaker system in which a plurality of speaker units are arranged in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array.
- Figures 13A to 13E show the simulation results for radiation characteristics when 15 speaker units are arranged vertically in a straight line at 2.5 cm intervals and sound is emitted in the same phase from each speaker unit. It is shown. That is, Fig. 13A to Fig. 13E show the specified horizontal cross-section and the sound frequency of 50 OHz, 1000Hz, 5000Hz, 10kHz, and 15kHz, respectively, generated from the specified speaker installation location. It shows the sound emission characteristics in a vertical section and the sound emission characteristics (ie, sound pressure distribution) on a projection plane at a distance of 2 m from the front of the speaker system.
- the white part indicates that the sound pressure is higher than the black part.
- Bessel array which makes a sound radiation characteristic spherical by weighting with a coefficient sequence based on a Bessel function of one kind, is known.
- Japanese Patent Publication No. 11-25480 discloses a simplified Vessel array.
- FIG. 14 is a circuit diagram showing a main part of an array speaker system to which a Bessel array is applied.
- Numerals 12-15 denote weighting means for adding weighting factors C1-C15 to the 'signals supplied to the corresponding speaker units 111-1-1-15.
- a power amplifier is inserted between the weighting means 12_1 to 12-15 and the corresponding speaker unit 11-11 to 11-15, but these are not shown in this specification. .
- an amplifier or the like having a gain corresponding to the weight coefficient can be used as the weighting means 12_1 to 12-15.
- weight coefficients C 1 to C 15 are derived by a Bessel function of the first kind defined by the following equation.
- 15A to 15E show the simulation results of the sound radiation characteristics when the speaker units 11-1 to 11-15 are driven with the weight coefficients C1 to C15 based on the Bessel function of the first kind.
- the sound radiating characteristics at the specified horizontal and vertical sections when sound frequencies of 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, 5000 Hz, 10 kHz, and 15 kHz, respectively, are generated at the specified location of the spike force are shown.
- the sound emission characteristics on the projection plane at a distance of 2 m from the front of the speaker system.
- the present invention covers a wide range from a low frequency region to a high frequency region. It is another object of the present invention to provide an array speaker system capable of efficiently emitting sound while preventing the sound emission characteristics from being beamed or combed. Disclosure of the invention
- the array speaker system according to the present invention is configured by arranging a plurality of speaker units. All the speaker units are driven in phase with respect to a signal in a low frequency range, and are driven in phase with a signal in a high frequency range. Each speaker unit is driven by weighting with a weight coefficient based on a Bessel function. Alternatively, all loudspeaker units may be driven with the same phase and the same gain for signals in the low frequency range.
- an all-pass filter whose phase is set to rotate 180 ° in the 'high-frequency region' is placed, and the speed unit whose weight coefficient based on the Bessel function takes a negative value passes through the all-pass filter.
- the signal is driven by weighting the signal with the absolute value of the weighting factor.
- the speaker unit whose weighting factor based on the Bessel function does not take a negative value does not pass through the all-pass filter. And is driven.
- an all-pass filter whose phase is set to rotate by 180 ° in a high frequency region and a speaker unit whose weight coefficient based on the Bessel function takes a negative value are provided.
- a means for inputting a signal that has been connected to each other and passing through an all-pass filter, and assigning a gain characteristic equivalent to the absolute value of the weighting coefficient to the signal component in the high-frequency region, and weighting based on the Bessel function Means are provided, each of which is connected to a speaker unit whose coefficient does not take a negative value, and which imparts a gain characteristic corresponding to a weight coefficient to a signal component in a high frequency region.
- the above-described all-pass filter may be set so that the phase rotation amount becomes 90 ° in the vicinity of a frequency corresponding to a wavelength corresponding to the arrangement width of the plurality of speaker units.
- the input signal Filter means for dividing a signal component in a high-frequency area into a signal component in a high-frequency area; and weighting means connected to each speaker unit for assigning a weight to the signal component in the high-frequency area using a weighting coefficient based on a Bessel function.
- a signal component in the high frequency region which is connected to each speaker unit and is weighted by a weighting coefficient based on the Bessel function by the corresponding weighting means, is added to the signal component in the low frequency region. And adding means for outputting to the speaker unit.
- the plurality of speaker units are attached to, for example, a common enclosure or a bass reflex type common enclosure.
- FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing a main part of an array speaker system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2A shows a configuration example of the all-pass filter shown in FIG.
- FIG. 2B shows the phase characteristics of the all-pass filter.
- FIG. 3A shows a sound radiation characteristic when a sound frequency of 500 Hz is generated in the array speaker system according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 3B shows sound radiation characteristics when a sound frequency of 1000 Hz is generated in the array speaker system according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 3C shows a sound radiation characteristic when a sound frequency of 500 Hz is generated in the array speaker system according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 3D shows a sound radiation characteristic when a sound frequency of 10 kHz is generated in the array speaker system according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 3E shows a sound radiation characteristic when a sound frequency of 15 kHz is generated in the array speaker system according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 4A shows a configuration example of an IIR digital all-pass filter.
- FIG. 4B shows the phase characteristics of the IIR digital all-pass filter.
- FIG. 5 is a circuit diagram showing a main part of an array speaker system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6A shows a configuration example of an amplifier connected to a predetermined speaker unit.
- FIG. 6B shows a configuration example of a shelving type high-pass filter connected to a predetermined speaker unit.
- FIG. 6C shows a configuration example of a shelving type high cut filter connected to a predetermined speaker unit.
- FIG. 7 shows gain characteristics of the circuits configured as shown in FIGS. 6A to 6C.
- FIG. 8A shows a circuit configuration example of a filter connected to each speaker unit in the array speaker system according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8B shows the gain characteristic of the filter shown in FIG. 8A.
- FIG. 8C shows the phase characteristics of the filter shown in FIG. 8A.
- FIG. 9A shows another circuit configuration example of the above filter.
- FIG. 9B shows the gain characteristic of the filter shown in FIG. 9A.
- FIG. 9C shows the phase characteristics of the filter shown in FIG. 9A.
- FIG. 10 is a circuit diagram showing a main part of an array speaker system according to a third embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 11A shows the sound emission characteristics when the gain of each speaker unit is set to “1” and a sound frequency of 900 Hz is generated.
- Fig. 11B shows the sound radiation characteristics when the gain of each speaker ut is set to "1" and a sound frequency of 1000 Hz is generated.
- Fig. 11C shows the sound emission characteristics when the gain of each speaker unit is set to "1" and a sound frequency of 1200 Hz is generated.
- FIG. 11D shows the sound radiation characteristics when the gain of each speaker unit is set to “1” and a sound frequency of 150 kHz is generated.
- FIG. 12 is a circuit diagram showing a main part of an array speaker system according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 13A shows a conventional array speaker system with a speech frequency of 500 Hz.
- Fig. 6 shows the sound emission characteristics when a number is generated.
- Figure 13B shows the sound radiation characteristics when a sound frequency of 1000 Hz is generated in the conventional array speaker system.
- Figure 13C shows the sound radiation characteristics when a conventional array speaker system generates a sound frequency of 500 Hz.
- Figure 13D shows the sound emission characteristics when a sound frequency of 10 kHz is generated in a conventional array speaker system.
- Figure 13E shows the sound radiation characteristics when a conventional array speaker system generates a sound frequency of 15 kHz.
- FIG. 14 is a circuit diagram showing a main part of an array speaker system to which a Bessel array is applied.
- Fig. 15A shows the sound emission characteristics when a sound frequency of 500 Hz is generated in the array speaker system to which the Bessel array is applied.
- FIG. 15B shows a sound radiation characteristic when a sound frequency of 100 Hz is generated in the array speaker system to which the Bessel array is applied.
- FIG. 15C shows a sound radiation characteristic when a sound frequency of 500 Hz is generated in the array speaker system to which the Bessel array is applied.
- Figure 15D shows the sound emission characteristics when a sound frequency of 10 kHz is generated in the array speaker system to which the Bessel array is applied.
- Figure 15E shows the sound radiation characteristics when a sound frequency of 15 kHz is generated in an array speaker system to which the Bessel array is applied.
- a predetermined sound frequency and the same phase are output from all the speed units constituting the array speaker system.
- the sound is emitted without weighting based on the Bessel function. Beaming and combing of the radiation characteristics are not seen. Therefore, in the present invention, in the low frequency region where the beaming and combing of the sound radiation characteristics do not pose a problem, the speaker radiation units are driven in the positive phase to prevent the sound radiation characteristics from deteriorating.
- each speaker unit is driven by weighting with a weighting factor based on the Bessel function. This makes it possible to efficiently emit sound while preventing the sound emission characteristics from being beamed or combed in a wide frequency range from a low frequency range to a high frequency range.
- FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing a main part of a first embodiment of the array speaker system according to the present invention.
- an array speaker system is composed of 15 speaker units as in the conventional example, and weight coefficients based on the Bessel function are set in the same manner as in C1 to C15 described above.
- the present invention is not limited to the above-described configuration, and can be similarly applied to an array speaker system having a plurality of (for example, five or more) speaker units, and the weight coefficient is also applicable. Other values other than the aforementioned C1 to C15 may be used.
- each speaker unit is driven in the positive phase in the low frequency range.
- weighting is applied by a weighting factor based on the Bessel function to drive. For this reason, in this embodiment, an all-pass filter whose phase changes by 180 ° in a high frequency region is used.
- Numeral 15 denotes weighting means for weighting the signals supplied to the corresponding speaker units 11 1 to 11 with weight coefficients based on the Bessel function of the first kind. These correspond to the reference numerals 111-1-11-115 and the reference numbers 12-1-12-15 shown in FIG. However, unlike FIG. 14, in FIG. 1, the weighting factors assigned to the weighting means 2-1 to 2_15 are described by absolute values. That is, in the array speaker system shown in FIG. 14, negative values were set for the weighting factors C1, C3, C5, C6, C9, and C10, but in the array speaker system shown in FIG. , Weighting means 2-1, 2-3, 2-5, 2-6, 2-9, and 2-10 are weighted coefficients C by predetermined absolute values, respectively.
- Symbol 3 indicates that the all-pass is set so that its amplitude characteristic is flat over the entire frequency range, and its phase characteristic changes to 0 ° in the low frequency range and changes by 180 ° in the high frequency range to be in antiphase. Show the filter.
- FIG. 2A shows an example of the configuration of an all-pass filter
- FIG. 2B shows its phase characteristics.
- the phase rotation amount is 0 ° in the low frequency region, and the phase rotation amount gradually increases as the frequency increases, and the phase rotation amount increases at about 700 Hz. It has a phase characteristic of 90 ° and a phase rotation amount of 180 ° in a high frequency region of 10 kHz or more.
- the input signal supplied to the signal input terminal is a weighting means 2—2, 2—4, 2—7, 2—8, in which the weight coefficient based on the Bessel function takes a positive value.
- weighting means 2 ⁇ 1, 2 ⁇ 3, 2 ⁇ 5, 2 — 6, 2, 9 and 2 1-10 are supplied with the input signal via all-pass filter 3.
- the input signal supplied in this manner is weighted by individual weighting factors in weighting means 2— :! to 2-15, and output to the speaker loudspeakers 1-1 to 1-115.
- Each one for one five A signal to which a corresponding weighting factor is added in the locating means is supplied.
- the amount of phase rotation by the all-pass filter 3 is For signals in the low-frequency region that does not exceed 90 °, weights based on the Bessel function are given the same phase (that is, the same polarity) as the weight given to the speaker unit whose positive value takes a positive value. Is done.
- the weighting coefficient based on the Bessel function is opposite to the weighting given to the speaker unit having a positive value (ie, , Reverse polarity).
- 3A to 3E show the simulation results of the sound radiation characteristics in the present embodiment, in which sound frequencies of 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, 5000 Hz, 10 kHz, and 15 kHz were generated at predetermined speaker installation locations, respectively. It shows the sound emission characteristics at the specified horizontal and vertical cross sections, and the sound emission characteristics at a projection plane at a distance of 2 m from the front of the speaker system.
- FIGS. 13A to 13E In comparison with the sound radiation characteristics shown in FIGS. 13A to 13E, as shown in FIGS. Can be.
- the all-pass filter 3 does not need to be constituted by an analog filter as shown in FIG. 2A, and may be constituted by a digital filter having an AZD converter and a DZA converter before and after it.
- the transfer function of the analog all-pass filter 3 shown in Figure 2A is l + CRS
- This digital filter can be constituted by an IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) filter shown in FIG. 4A, which has a phase characteristic shown in FIG. 4B.
- IIR Infinite Impulse Response
- the weight coefficient based on the Bessel function is different for each speaker unit.
- C 5 — 0.1148
- the gainer is about 3.15 times different. For this reason, the speech conversion efficiency in the low frequency region where weighting by the weighting factor based on the Bessel function is not required is also reduced.
- a filter having the same gain in the low frequency region and having a gain corresponding to the weight coefficient based on the Bessel function in the high frequency region is used as the weighting means.
- the standard speaker unit The reference speaker unit shall have a flat gain characteristic.
- the gain in the low frequency region is equivalent to the gain of the reference speaker unit, and in the high frequency region, it corresponds to the ratio between the weight coefficient of the reference speaker unit and the weight coefficient of each speaker unit.
- a filter having such a gain characteristic is used as weighting means.
- the output of the all-pass filter 3 is directly supplied to a speed cut whose weight coefficient based on the Bessel function takes a negative value.
- reference numerals 1 1 to 1 to 15 indicate speaker units
- reference numeral 3 indicates an all-pass filter
- reference numerals 4 _ :! to 4 1 to 15 indicate speaker units 1-1-1-15.
- 2 shows a circuit for giving a predetermined weight to the circuit.
- the absolute values of the weighting factors assigned to the speaker units 1-2 to 1-4, 1 to 6: 1 to 10 and 1 to 11 to 1 to 14 are determined by the above-described reference speaker unit. Since the absolute value of the weighting factor given to the is larger than 0.129, they are referred to as so-called shelving types. , And 4 1 1 2 to 4-14 are connected.
- This high-pass filter has a flat gain characteristic in the low-frequency region, and increases in the high-frequency region according to the ratio of the reference weighting factor CI (C15) to the weighting factor assigned to the corresponding speaker unit. It has gain characteristics.
- the shelving type high-cut filter has a flat gain characteristic in the low frequency region and a gain characteristic that decreases in the high frequency region in accordance with the ratio of the corresponding weight coefficient to the reference weight coefficient C1. Is connected.
- FIG. 6A shows a configuration example of the amplifiers 411 and 4-15.
- FIG. 6B shows a configuration example of the high-pass filters 4-2 to 4-4, 4-6 to 4-10, and 4-12 to 4-14.
- FIG. 6C shows a configuration example of the high cut filters 415 and 4-11.
- the DC gain (that is, the gain in the low frequency region) is determined by the ratio (R2ZR1) between the resistors R2 and R1.
- the same value is used for each of the resistors R1 and R2. Therefore, the gain in the low frequency region of the signal supplied to each of the speaker units 111 to 115 is the same.
- the gain in the high-frequency region is adjusted to correspond to the ratio between the absolute value of the corresponding weight coefficient and the reference weight coefficient (0.1296).
- the values of resistor R3 and capacitor C are selected respectively.
- R3 36 kQ
- C 3300 pF for high-pass filter 4-6
- 3 2 L4
- FIG. 7 shows the gain characteristics of the circuits indicated by the signs 4— :! to 415 set as described above. As shown in FIG. 7, the gain in the low frequency region in each circuit is the same and flat, and the gain in the high frequency region changes according to the corresponding weighting factor.
- a signal with the same phase and the same gain applied to each speaker unit is obtained.
- a weighted signal based on the Bessel function is provided. Therefore, in the present embodiment, it is possible to completely prevent a decrease in the sound radiation efficiency in low-pitched sounds, and to prevent the sound radiation characteristics from being beamed or combed.
- the speaker unit 1-1 is selected as the reference speaker unit in the above embodiment, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and any speaker unit may be used as the reference speaker unit. You can choose. Further, the high-pass filter and the high-cut filter can be constituted by digital filters instead of analog filters.
- FIGS. 5, 6A to 6C, and 7 the gains in the low frequency region are equalized, and in the high frequency region, the gain is based on the Bessel function.
- a third embodiment of the present invention configured to assign weights based on weight coefficients will be described with reference to FIGS. 8A to 8C, 9A to 9C, and 10. FIG.
- the desired gain can be obtained.
- Frequency characteristics In other words, by connecting a filter whose weight coefficient based on the Bessel function takes a negative value to the speaker unit as a weighting circuit, the weight of the speaker unit based on the Bessel function takes a negative value.
- the above-mentioned all-pass filter 3 provided commonly is omitted.
- FIG. 8A shows a circuit configuration example of the above filter.
- the gain characteristics shown in Fig. 8B and the phase characteristics shown in Fig. 8C are realized. can do. That is, the DC gain is 0 dB, the gain characteristic is 9.97 dB in the high frequency region, and the phase rotation in the low frequency region is 0 °, and the phase rotation is 180 ° in the high frequency region. Phase characteristics can be presented.
- weighting factors of the filters connected to other speaker units are Even in the same manner as described above, a predetermined circuit constant can be determined corresponding to each gain characteristic.
- a filter having a gain characteristic according to a ratio between the weight coefficient and the reference weight coefficient may be used. This can be realized by the circuit shown in FIG. 9A.
- circuit constants can be similarly determined for the filters connected to the other speaker units and corresponding to the weight coefficients having positive values.
- FIG. 10 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration of an array speaker system according to a third embodiment of the present invention in which the filter shown in FIG. 8A is configured using the filter shown in FIG. 9A.
- the weighting factors C3 and C13 having the largest absolute values among the weighting factors based on the Bessel function are selected as reference weighting factors, and the speaker unit 1 in which the weighting factor has a negative value is selected.
- the speaker unit 1 in which the weighting factor has a negative value is selected.
- speaker units 1-1, 1-5, 1-6, 1-9, and 1-10 whose weighting factors take negative values have the absolute value of the reference weighting factor (ie, , 0.3621) and the filter shown in Fig. 8A that has a gain in the high frequency region that corresponds to the ratio of the absolute value of the weighting factor assigned to the corresponding speaker unit.
- speaker units 112, 1-4, 1-7, 1-8, 1-1-1, 1-112, 1-114, and 1-1-15 whose weighting factors take positive values
- speaker units 112, 1-4, 1-7, 1-8, 1-1-1, 1-112, 1-114, and 1-1-15 whose weighting factors take positive values
- the same phase and the same gain are given to each speaker unit, and in the high frequency region. Is given a weighting factor by weighting based on the Bessel function. Therefore, it is possible to completely prevent the lowering of the sound emission efficiency of low-pitched sound, and it is also possible to prevent the sound emission characteristic from being beamed or combed. Further, an all-pass filter commonly provided in the speaker unit can be omitted.
- the above embodiment has been described as using an analog filter, this can be realized using a digital filter that has been subjected to SZ conversion (for example, bilinear conversion) as shown in FIG. 4A.
- the reference speaker unit can be arbitrarily selected.
- FIGS. 11A to 11D show simulation results in which the weights for the 15 speaker cuts are all set to “1”.
- FIG. 16A, FIG. 16B, FIG. 16C, and FIG. 16D are 90 OHz, 100 000 Hz, 120 000 Hz, and 150 000, respectively.
- the sound radiation characteristics for the sound frequency of Hz are shown.
- the center frequency of the phase rotation of the all-pass filter (corresponding to a phase rotation amount of 90 °) near the frequency corresponding to the wavelength of the width of the speaker unit row of the array speaker system.
- the configuration is made using an analog or digital all-pass filter (or the filter shown in FIG. 8A).
- the present invention can be realized by other methods.
- FIG. 12 shows a main part of a circuit configuration of an array speaker system according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention, which is configured without using the all-pass filter.
- reference numerals 11 to 11 denote speaker units similar to those described above
- reference numeral 6 denotes a single-pass filter for filtering a signal component in a low frequency region from an input signal
- reference numeral 7 denotes an input signal.
- a high-pass filter that filters signal components in the high-frequency region from the symbol 8— :! 8 to 15 are provided corresponding to the corresponding speaker units 1-1 to 1-15, respectively, and are weighting coefficients based on the Bessel function for the signal components in the high frequency region supplied from the high-pass filter 7.
- C 1 to C 15 The weighting means for assigning weights is shown below.
- the adder that supplies each speaker unit 111 to 115 is shown.
- the same cutoff frequency is set in the low-pass filter 6 and the high-pass filter 7, thereby dividing the input signal into a signal component in a low frequency region and a signal component in a high frequency region. I have.
- the low-pass filter 6 and the high-pass filter 7 may be constituted by either an analog filter or a digital filter.
- the input signal is divided into a signal component in the low frequency region and a signal component in the high frequency region using a frequency corresponding to the wavelength of the width of the speaker unit row, and the signal in the low frequency region is divided.
- the components are weighted with a gain of ⁇ 1 '' for all of the corresponding loudspeakers, and the signal components in the high frequency region are weighted by weighting coefficients based on the Bessel function, and those signal components are added.
- Output As a result, as in the above-described embodiments using the all-pass filter, sufficient gain is ensured in the low-frequency region, and beaming or combing of the sound radiation characteristics in the high-frequency region is prevented. Can be.
- the array speaker system is configured using 15 speaker cuts.
- the present invention is effectively applied to an array speaker system having five or more speaker units. It works.
- the weight coefficient based on the Bessel function does not need to be limited to the values described above.
- the weight coefficient based on the Bessel function takes a negative value.
- the car cut is driven by weighting with a weight coefficient based on the Bessel function, it is possible to prevent the sound from being beamed or combed. Therefore, in a wide frequency range from the low frequency range to the ⁇ frequency range, efficient sound emission such that the sound field becomes spherical while preventing beaming and combing of sound emission characteristics is prevented. Can be realized.
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