Adaptive howling canceller

Details Adaptive howling canceller Adaptive howling canceller

2011-03-01

2011-03-01

Lee, Ping (Department: 2614)

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

One-way audio signal program distribution

Public address system

C379S406050, C381S066000

Reexamination Certificate

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07899195

ABSTRACT:
An adaptive howling canceller has a plurality of adaptive filters. A delay adds a time delay of an acoustic feedback path to an electric signal fed from an amplifier of a sound-reinforcement system. Each adaptive filter filters the output signal of the delay with a filter coefficient, which is periodically updated at an update interval. The update interval of each adaptive filter is set to decrease successively from a first one to a last one of the adaptive filters. Adders are arranged in correspondence to the adaptive filters in series between a microphone and the amplifier. Each adder subtracts the output signal of the corresponding adaptive filter from an output signal fed from a preceding adder to thereby provide an output signal to a succeeding adder. The output signal from each adder is inputted into the corresponding adaptive filter. The audio signal from the microphone is inputted to the first adder, while the output signal from the last adder is inputted through the amplifier to the speaker and to the delay as the electric signal. The filter coefficient of each adaptive filter is updated so as to simulate a transfer function of the acoustic feedback path based on the output signals of the corresponding adder and the delay.

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