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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2015
Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);
Wade Torres, Attleboro, MA (US);
David Easterbrook, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Paul T. Bender, Framingham, MA (US);
David Warkentin, Boston, MA (US);
Steven H. Isabelle, Newton, MA (US);
Ryan Struzik, Hopkinton, MA (US);
BOSE CORPORATION, Framingham, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for a noise cancellation comprises an amplifier in communication with the three or more speakers disposed in an area. A system controller produces a driver signal for each of the speakers in response to a signal from at least one microphone detecting sound in the area and communicates the driver signals to the amplifier. The amplifier drives each speaker with the driver signal produced for that speaker. In response to the driver signals, the speakers emit sound that combined produces a substantially uniform sound pressure field for a particular zone within the area. The substantially uniform sound pressure field produced by the speakers has a magnitude and phase adapted to attenuate a noise field in the area corresponding to the sound detected by the at least one microphone.