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- From: cristja1@netnews.jhuapl.edu (John A. Cristion)
- Subject: Re: Active Noise Cancellation Algorithm
- Message-ID: <BzBCzs.97A@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <Bz3vHr.LKK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec15.160603.17752@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:35:52 GMT
- Lines: 60
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- m22257@mitre.org (Jeff Correia) writes:
-
- >In article <Bz3vHr.LKK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ja51359@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- >(axelrod) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> Hi. I know this is possible because I've heard the military does it for
- >> helicopter headsets; and I heard that the car companies will be doing it
- >> too. Does someone know of how the basics work behind active noise can-
- >> cellation?
- >>
- >> What I'm interested in is a system where you have a speaker or two
- >> somehow produce a signal that is directly out of phase with the ambient
- >> noise. This seems impossible, since a speaker radiates in all directions,
- >> thereby having a different phase at different points in the room. Is
- >> there some way of getting an average phase or something, in order to
- >> decrease the noise in the room/car?
- >>
- >> I'd like references to articles on this subject, along with a simple
- >> explanation if possible.
- >>
- >> Thanks
- >>
- >>
-
- > The type of cancellation you are referring to is one that I have heard
- >most commonly called reference cancelling. The idea is pretty much as you
- >have described it. You have one primary channel, and 1 or more reference
- >channels. The primary channel contains your desired signal corrupted by
- >unwanted noise, the reference channels contain noise which is (hopefully)
- >highly correlated with the unwanted noise in your primary channel, but
- >contain no trace of your desired signal.
-
- > A classic paper on this topic is by Bernie Widrow. While trying to
- >examine the heartbeat of a fetus, the heartbeat of the mother is a strong
- >interfering signal. Using a primary channel of mother+fetus and being able
- >to locate a position to get a "clean" but maybe slightly out of phase
- >refernce of the mother's heartbeat only, they were able to obtain the
- >desired results. I'm sorry I don't have the exact reference.
-
-
-
-
- There is a book "Adaptive Signal Processing," Widrow and Stearns, which deals
- with this subject. There are also many articles in the Signal Processing
- and Biomedicl Engineering literature. As Jeff has already noted the main
- requirement for using the algorithms in the book is a set of independantly
- measured, correlated noise signal, which may be cancelled from the reference
- signal. The algorithms also assume that the signal are linearly combined.
- If Nonlinear signal processing is needed then Neural Network models may be
- needed. Currently, here at JHU/APL, we are using Widrow's LMS algrothms
- for deriving fetal EKG signals from non-invasive measurements from the
- mother. If there is any interest, please post here or e-mail me.
-
-
- --
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- _______________________________________________________________
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- John A. Cristion
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