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AssigneeESS Technology, Inc.
InventorsA. Martin Mallinson, Robert Lynn Blair, Christian Leth Petersen, Paul Christopher Scowen
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An improved system and method for reducing the ambient noise experienced by a user listening to an earpiece without the use of a microphone is disclosed. An “ambient noise signal” created by the sound pressure wave of the ambient noise acting on the earpiece transducer is obtained. In some embodiments, the ambient noise signal is inverted and fed back, and the inverted signal is added to the intended audio signal being sent to the earpiece so that the ambient noise is cancelled. In other embodiments, a processor receives the ambient noise signal and predicts the modification to the intended audio signal needed to counteract the ambient noise. The ambient noise signal may be obtained by comparing the actual signal across the earpiece transducer to the intended audio signal, or by detecting variations in the current across the transducer from the current generated to drive the transducer.
A circuit for determining a signal that is representative of, and reducing, an environmental effect on an electrical load while the electrical load is operating based on an input signal, comprising:
A method for determining a signal that is representative of, and reducing, an effect of an environmental effect on an electrical load while the electrical load is operating based on an input signal, comprising:
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