Apparatus for actively reducing noise for interior of enclosed space

U.S. Patent Number: 5337365

Abstract: An apparatus for reducing noise for an interior of enclosed space, e.g., a vehicular compartment using an FIR adaptive digital filter is disclosed in which a control circuit is provided which outputs drive signals to a plurality of loud speakers which generate control sounds to interfer with a noise sound propagated in the interior so that a performance function including terms of residual noise signals output from residual noise signal detecting microphones and drive signals to the loud speakers is minimized and contributivity of the drive signals to the performance function is changed according to an occurrence of divergence in the noise reducing apparatus.

Inventors: Hamabe; Tsutomu (Yokosuka, JP), Kinoshita; Akio (Fujisawa, JP), Doi; Kazuhiro (Yokohama, JP), Muraoka; Kenichiro (Yokosuka, JP), Sato; Noriharu (Katsuta, JP)

Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (Yokohama, JP) Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP)

Application Number: 07/935,100

Issued: 1994-08-09

Expired: 2006-08-09

Classes: 381/71.12

Field of search: 381/71,94

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