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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1993
Thomas E Miller, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Kenneth L Kantor, Oakland, CA (US);
Jeffrey Barish, Boulder, CO (US);
Duane K Wise, Boulder, CO (US);
Other;
Abstract
This invention comprises a system to compensate for the noise level inside a vehicle by measuring the music level and the noise level in the vehicle through the use of analog to digital conversion and adaptive digital filtering, including a sensing microphone in the vehicle cabin to measure both music and noise; preamplification and analog to digital (A/D) conversion of the microphone signal; A/D conversion of a stereo music signal; a pair of filters that use an adaptive algorithm such as the known Least Mean Squares ('LMS') method to extract the noise from the total cabin sound; an estimation of the masking effect of the noise on the music; an adaptive correction of the music loudness and, optionally, equalization to overcome the masking effect; digital to analog (D/A) conversion of the corrected music signal; and transmission of the corrected music signal to the audio system.