Apparatus, system, and method of neural-network (NN) based active acoustic control (AAC)

An Active Acoustic Control (AAC) system comprising:

• one or more acoustic transducers;
• a plurality of noise sensing acoustic sensors to generate a plurality of noise inputs representing acoustic noise at a plurality of noise sensing locations;
• and
• a controller to process input information comprising AAC configuration information and the plurality of noise inputs, wherein the AAC configuration information comprises information representing one or more parameters affecting a real-time configuration of AAC in a sound control zone, wherein the controller is to determine a sound control pattern to control sound within the sound control zone based on the plurality of noise inputs, and to output the sound control pattern to the one or more acoustic transducers, wherein the controller comprises a Neural-Network (NN) trained to generate an NN output based on an NN input, wherein the NN input is based on the AAC configuration information, wherein the controller is configured to generate the sound control pattern based on the NN output.

A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause an Active Acoustic Control (AAC) system to control sound within a sound control zone, the instructions, when executed, to cause the AAC system to:

• process input information comprising:
• Active Acoustic Control (AAC) configuration information, the AAC configuration information comprising information representing one or more parameters affecting a real-time configuration of AAC in the sound control zone;
• and
• a plurality of noise inputs representing acoustic noise at a plurality of noise sensing locations;
• determine a sound control pattern to control sound within the sound control zone based on the plurality of noise inputs, wherein the sound control pattern is based on a Neural Network (NN) output of an NN trained to generate the NN output based on an NN input, wherein the NN input is based on the AAC configuration information;
• and
• output the sound control pattern to one or more acoustic transducers.