Detailed Description
In this application, it will be understood that terms such as "including" or "having," or the like, are intended to indicate the presence of the disclosed features, integers, steps, acts, components, parts, or combinations thereof, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, acts, components, parts, or combinations thereof.
It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.
The application is further described with reference to examples of embodiments shown in the drawings.
Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of the present application provides a method of noise reduction in a building space.
The building space is for example a separate room or a lobby. Taking a room as an example, the maintenance structure includes floors between floors, walls of the room, windows, and the like.
Specifically, referring to fig. 4 and 5, a plurality of noise reducers are fixedly disposed on an inner side surface of a maintenance structure of a room. The noise reducer can be positioned below an upper floor of a room, or can be positioned on the inner side of a side wall of the room or the inner side of a window of the room. The noise reducers may be equally spaced or non-equally spaced. Any one of the plurality of noise reducers has a reference microphone, a speaker, and an error microphone. And the vertical distance from the reference microphone, the loudspeaker and the error microphone in any noise reducer to the maintenance structure where the any noise reducer is located is gradually increased. Preferably, the reference microphone, the speaker and the error microphone are spaced apart from each other in a direction perpendicular to the maintenance structure, thereby reducing mutual interference between the reference microphone, the speaker and the error microphone. The size of the space is not limited in the application, and the skilled person can debug the space according to the test effect. The plurality of noise reducers can be distributed on the inner surface of a single-sided wall body or the inner surface of a multi-sided wall body. The plurality of noise reducers may be provided only below the floor, or may be provided both below the floor and inside the window.
If the noise reducer is located in the same plane of the closed structure, the whole inner side surface of the partial closed structure can be a plane or a curved surface.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 4, a plurality of noise reducers are arranged in a matrix inside a single-sided window. Of course, the plurality of noise reducers may be distributed in a diamond shape, a honeycomb shape, or other distribution. In the embodiment shown in fig. 5, a plurality of noise reducers are provided below the floor between two floors. The noise reducer is fixedly arranged on the floor slab.
The distance between adjacent noise reducers is not limited, and the cost and the noise reduction effect can be balanced by a person skilled in the art.
The method shown in fig. 1 comprises the following steps.
Step 101, determining a first reference microphone facing a noise source according to strength information of reference noise signals picked up by the reference microphones, and selecting a plurality of reference microphones around the first reference microphone as a second reference microphone, wherein noise reducers where the first reference microphone and the second reference microphone are located form a noise reduction network.
Generally, the closer a reference microphone is to the center of the noise source, the greater the strength of the reference noise signal it picks up.
Based on this, for example, a reference microphone with the largest signal strength of the reference noise signal and the signal strength exceeding a first set threshold may be selected as the first reference microphone. The first setting threshold is, for example, 3db, and can be set empirically.
Step 102, for any noise reducer in the noise reduction network, filtering the reference noise signal picked up by the reference microphone in any noise reducer according to the reference noise signal picked up by the reference microphones of all noise reducers in the noise reduction network and the residual noise signal picked up by the error microphone in any noise reducer, or filtering the reference noise signal picked up by the reference microphone in any noise reducer according to the reference noise signal picked up by the reference microphone of any noise reducer and the residual noise signal picked up by the error microphone of all noise reducers in the noise reduction network, so as to reduce the average power of the residual noise signal picked up by the error microphone in the noise reduction network.
In the case of a building space, external noise to be shielded is considered to be propagated around a point by vibration. The problem that noise is transmitted to the periphery cannot be perfectly solved by a single noise reducer, and a noise reduction network in a region needs to be formed by the surrounding noise reducers, so that a good noise reduction effect is achieved in a relatively large space region. Furthermore, when any noise reducer in the noise reduction network performs noise reduction, the reference noise signal detected by the noise reducer is not cancelled in an isolated manner, but the reference noise signal detected by all reference microphones in the noise reduction network or the error noise signal detected by all error microphones in the noise reduction network needs to be further referred, so that when the noise reduction network cancels the noise transmitted outside the building space, a better noise reduction effect can be obtained. The average power of the residual noise signal in the area where the noise reduction network is located is as small as possible, so that a user located in the building space experiences very little outdoor noise no matter where he is located.
In some embodiments, the filtering process of step 102 further needs to refer to a position relationship of the any noise reducer with respect to the noise reduction network. This is equivalent to further re-distributing the noise reduction tasks undertaken by the noise reducers (i.e., the noise reduction networks) according to the position relationship between the selected noise reducers and each other, and further accelerating the speed of reducing the average power of the residual noise signal, i.e., accelerating convergence.
Referring to fig. 2, in some embodiments, two filtering operations are performed on a reference noise signal picked up by a reference microphone of any one of the noise reducers in the noise reduction network;
in the first filtering of the two filtering, step 1021 is executed, the reference noise signal picked up by the reference microphone in any one of the noise reducers is filtered according to a first filter coefficient, so as to obtain a first inverted noise signal, wherein the first filter coefficient is updated according to the reference noise signal picked up by the reference microphone in any one of the noise reducers and the residual noise signal picked up by the error microphone in any one of the noise reducers; in the second filtering of the two filtering, step 1022 is executed, the first inverse noise signal is filtered according to a second filter coefficient, so as to obtain a second inverse noise signal for the speaker in any one of the noise reducers to play, wherein the second filter coefficient is updated according to a residual noise signal picked up by an error microphone in any one of the noise reducers, a scale coefficient determined according to a position relationship of any one of the noise reducers with respect to the noise reduction network, and a reference noise signal picked up by a reference microphone in all the noise reducers in the noise reduction network.
In the first filtering, the noise reducers are independent of each other, and the first inverse noise signal can be generated by referring to the existing noise reduction method.
The purpose of the second noise reduction is to take the lowest overall average noise in a certain space region as a target, and weight corresponding to the sound attenuation is respectively carried out on the noise reduction tasks born by the noise reducers by utilizing the attenuation of sound in the transmission process and the distance between the noise reducers, so that the overall noise reduction in the certain space region is realized. For example, in some cases, noise reducers closer to the center of the noise source take on a larger noise reduction task.
Specifically, for the jth noise reducer in the noise reduction network, the first filtering of the two filtering processes is performed according to the following formula:
nanti,j(t)=Hj(t)*Xj(t),
nanti,j(t) is the first inverse noise intensity value corresponding to the jth noise reducer at time t, hj (t) is the filter coefficient vector of the first filter of the jth noise reducer at time t, Xj(t) is a reference noise vector picked up by a reference microphone of the jth noise reducer at the moment of cut-off t, "+" represents convolution operation;
the first filter coefficients hj (t) are updated as follows:
Hj(t+1)=Hj(t)+μ·ej(t)·Xj(t),
hj (t) is the filter coefficient vector for the first filtering of the jth noise reducer at time t, μ is the learning step size, ej (t) is the residual noise intensity value picked up by the error microphone of the jth noise reducer at time t, Xj (t) is the reference noise vector picked up by the reference microphone of the jth noise reducer at time t, Xj(t) is the same length as H (t) vector;
the second filtering of the two filtering is performed according to the following formula:
nanti,j(t) is a first inverse noise intensity value, n ', corresponding to the j-th noise reducer at time t'anti,j(t) is the second inverse noise intensity value, W, output by the jth noise reducer at time tj(t) a second vector of filter coefficients for the jth noise reducer at time t, of length K, each vector element denoted wj,k(t), k is coefficient number;
second filter coefficient Wj(t) is updated as follows:
Wj(t) is the second filter coefficient vector, P, of the jth noise reducer at time tjIs a scale coefficient determined according to the position relation of the jth noise reducer relative to the noise reduction network, mu is a learning step length, ej (t) is a residual noise intensity value picked up by the jth noise reducer at the time t, and Xk(t) is the reference noise vector picked up by the reference microphone of the kth noise reducer in the noise reduction network, Xk(t) and Wj(t) the vectors are of the same length, M being the number of all first and second reference microphones.
In updating the second filter coefficients, reference is made to a reference noise signal vector picked up by all reference microphones in the noise reduction network.
In some simplified models, PjIs constant at 1, i.e. the position information of the noise reducer is not taken into account.
In yet another embodiment, and with reference to fig. 3, two filtering operations are performed on the reference noise signal picked up by the reference microphone of any one of the noise reducers in the noise reduction network,
in the first filtering of the two filtering, step 1021a is executed, and a residual noise signal picked up by an error microphone in any one of the noise reducers is filtered according to a first filter coefficient to obtain a corrected residual noise signal, wherein the first filter coefficient is updated according to a reference noise signal picked up by a reference microphone in any one of the noise reducers, a scaling coefficient determined by a position relation of any one of the noise reducers with respect to the noise reduction network, and the residual noise signal picked up by the error microphone in the noise reducer where the error microphones of all the noise reducers in the noise reduction network are located;
in the second filtering of the two filtering, step 1022a is executed, the reference noise signal picked up by the reference microphone in any one of the noise reducers is filtered according to the second filter coefficient, so as to obtain an inverted noise signal for the speaker in any one of the noise reducers to play, wherein the second filter coefficient is updated according to the reference noise signal picked up by the reference microphone in any one of the noise reducers and the corrected noise signal.
The first filtering is to use the attenuation of sound in propagation and the distance of noise reducers to respectively weight the overall average residual noise, so as to reasonably distribute the residual noise processed by each noise reducer.
And filtering each noise reducer for the second time according to the residual noise intensity distributed by each noise reducer, and outputting corresponding reverse phase noise.
Specifically, for the jth noise reducer in the noise reduction network, the first filtering of the two filtering processes is performed according to the following formula:
nerr,j(t) is a residual noise intensity value, n ', picked up by an error microphone of the jth noise reducer at time t'err,j(t) obtaining a corrected residual noise intensity value W of the corrected residual noise signal at the time t after the residual noise signal picked up by the jth noise reducer is subjected to first filteringj(t) a first vector of filter coefficients for the jth noise reducer at time t, of length K, each vector element being denoted wj,k(t), k is coefficient number;
first filter coefficient Wj(t) is updated as follows:
Wj(t) is the first filter coefficient vector, P, of the jth noise reducer at time tjScaling factor determined for the positional relationship of the jth noise reducer with respect to the noise reduction network (in some simplified models, PjConstant 1, i.e. without taking into account the position information of the noise reducer), μ is the learning step size, ek(t) is the residual noise intensity value, X, picked up by the noise reducer k at time tj(t) is the reference noise vector picked up by the reference microphone of the jth noise reducer at time t, Xj(t) and Wj(t) the vectors are of the same length, M being the number of all first and second reference microphones;
the second filtering of the two filtering is performed according to the following formula:
nanti,j(t)=Hj(t)*Xj(t),
nanti,j(t) is the inverse noise intensity value H to be played by the jth noise reducer at the time tj(t) is the filter coefficient vector of the second filtering of the jth noise reducer at time t, Xj(t) is a reference noise vector picked up by a reference microphone of the jth noise reducer at the moment of cut-off t, and a symbol "+" represents convolution operation;
second filter coefficient Hj(t) is updated as follows:
Hj(t+1)=Hj(t)+μ·ej(t)·Xj(t),
Hj(t) is the filter coefficient vector of the second filtering of the jth noise reducer at time t, μ is the learning step size, ej(t) is the residual noise intensity value, X, picked up by the jth noise reducer at time tj(t) is the reference noise vector picked up by the reference microphone of the jth noise reducer at the time t is cut off, Xj(t) is the same length as the vector of H (t).
In the above two embodiments, it may be further determined whether the noise source is close to the maintenance structure or far from the maintenance structure according to the strength information of the reference noise signal picked up by the first reference microphone. If the noise source is far away from the maintenance structure, the difference between the intensity and the propagation direction of the noise in the space where each noise reducer is located is considered to be small, and at this time, P isj1. If the noise source is close to the maintenance structure, then the noise received by each noise reducer in the noise reduction network can be considered to have significant attenuation. For example, when the measured noise source is close to the dimensional structure, the ratio of the reference noise signal intensity picked up by the second reference microphone to the reference noise signal intensity picked up by the first reference microphone may be used as the proportional coefficient P corresponding to the position relationship between the twoj。
There are two ways of determining whether the noise source is close enough or far enough from the maintenance structure.
The first method is to judge that the noise source is a sufficiently close noise source when the intensity value of the noise signal picked up by the first reference microphone is greater than a second set threshold value. Obviously, the second set threshold is greater than the first set threshold. The second setting threshold is, for example, 6 db, and can be set empirically.
And a second method is that the intensity of the noise picked up by a first reference microphone positioned at the center is set as a (db), the intensity of the noise picked up by a second reference microphone farthest from the first reference microphone is set as b (db), if a-b is smaller than a third set threshold value, the sound source is judged to be a long-distance sound source, and if not, the sound source is judged to be a short-distance sound source. The third setting threshold is, for example, 3dB, and can be set empirically.
In some embodiments, the method further comprises: the signal strengths of the reference noise signals picked up by all reference microphones in the root noise reduction network update the numbers of the noise reducers that make up the noise reduction network.
When the noise source moves, the position with the strongest reference noise will also move, which is usually a gradual process, so that the number of the first reference microphone, and correspondingly the number of the second reference microphone, can be updated from the already selected microphones.
In some embodiments, the method further comprises: after the number of the noise reducers in the noise reduction network is determined, the reference microphones of the rest of the noise reducers are closed.
Since the remaining microphones do not need to take on the noise reduction task, turning them off can reduce the power consumption of the overall system. Of course, the noise reducer in which these reference microphones are located may further be turned off.
In some embodiments, all of the reference microphones are in an operational state before the first reference microphone is first determined.
For example, when the system is turned on, all reference microphones need to pick up the reference noise signal, and when the first reference microphone is determined, the microphones other than the first reference microphone and the second reference microphone are turned off.
Of course, for the purpose of reducing power consumption, the respective reference microphones are operated in turn in time slots after the system is turned on, or when there is not enough noise outside the room so that no reference microphone is determined as the first reference microphone.
Based on the same inventive concept as the previous embodiment, referring to fig. 6, an embodiment of the present application also provides a building space noise reduction apparatus 1. And fixedly arranging a plurality of noise reducers on the inner side surface of the maintenance structure of the building space, wherein any one of the noise reducers is provided with a reference microphone, a loudspeaker and an error microphone, and the vertical distance from the reference microphone, the loudspeaker and the error microphone to the maintenance structure where the any one of the noise reducers is positioned is gradually increased. The device includes: the filtering module 11 is configured to determine, according to strength information of reference noise signals picked up by the reference microphones, a first reference microphone that is directly facing a noise source, and select a plurality of reference microphones around the first reference microphone as a second reference microphone, where noise reducers where the first reference microphone and the second reference microphone are located form a noise reduction network; the noise reduction module 12 is configured to, for any noise reducer in the noise reduction network, filter a reference noise signal picked up by a reference microphone in the any noise reducer according to a reference noise signal picked up by reference microphones of all noise reducers in the noise reduction network and a residual noise signal picked up by an error microphone in the any noise reducer, or filter a reference noise signal picked up by a reference microphone in the any noise reducer according to a reference noise signal picked up by a reference microphone of the any noise reducer and a residual noise signal picked up by all noise reducer error microphones in the noise reduction network, so as to reduce an average power of the residual noise signal picked up by the error microphone in the noise reduction network.
The processing procedures of the modules can refer to the description of the foregoing embodiments, and are not repeated here.
Referring to fig. 7, an embodiment of the present application also provides a noise reduction apparatus 1 for a building space. And fixedly arranging a plurality of noise reducers on the inner side surface of the maintenance structure of the building space, wherein any one of the noise reducers is provided with a reference microphone, a loudspeaker and an error microphone, and the vertical distance from the reference microphone, the loudspeaker and the error microphone to the maintenance structure where the any one of the noise reducers is positioned is gradually increased. The device includes: a memory 11a and a processor 12a, the memory 11a storing instructions and the processor 12a executing the instructions to perform the aforementioned room noise reduction method.
With reference to fig. 4 and 5, embodiments of the present application further provide a building space noise reduction system, comprising: a plurality of noise reducers 2 for fixing on an inside surface of a maintenance structure of a building space, each of the plurality of noise reducers 2 comprising a reference microphone 21, a loudspeaker 22 and an error microphone 23, wherein the vertical distance of the reference microphone 21, the loudspeaker 22 and the error microphone 23 of any one of the noise reducers to the maintenance structure where said any one of the noise reducers 2 is located is gradually increased, the system further comprises the aforementioned building space noise reducing apparatus 1.
The embodiments in the present application are described in a progressive manner, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments can be referred to each other, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from the other embodiments.
The protective scope of the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and it is apparent that various modifications and variations can be made to the present application by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the present application. It is intended that the present application also include such modifications and variations as come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.