A food waste disposer system (300) has active noise control of food waste disposer noise that is generated by the food waste disposer (302) when a motor of the food waste disposer (302) is running. The food waste disposer (302) has a food conveying section that conveys food waste to a grinding section. The grinding section has a rotatable shredder plate that is rotated by a motor of a motor section. Active noise sound waves (310) are radiated into an area (313) where the food waste disposer noise is to be controlled at an amplitude and frequency to at least cancel or mask the food waste disposer noise.

A method to suppress noise emanating from an electrical power generator including the steps of: receiving sound emanating from the electrical power generator, wherein the sound is received in a duct for cooling air having passed through the generator; analyzing the received sound and, based on the analysis, generating a sound signal which represents a destructive sound to the received sound, and broadcasting a destructive sound into the duct, wherein the destructive sound corresponds to the sound signal.

A scent neutralizing unit includes a housing, an odor neutralizing gas emitter, and an active noise canceling system. The odor neutralizing gas emitter is coupled to the housing and is configured to provide an odor neutralizing gas that neutralizes odor particles. The active noise canceling system includes a microphone configured to generate a captured signal representing a noise signal, an acoustic transducer configured to emit audio signals, and a controller operatively coupled to the microphone and the acoustic transducer and configured to receive the captured signal from the microphone. The controller is configured to control the acoustic transducer to emit an anti-noise signal based on the captured signal where the anti-noise signal is configured to attenuate the noise signal.

An active noise cancellation system for a toilet comprising a lid configured to cover a bowl of the toilet, a microphone configured to detect noises associated with the toilet, and a coil coupled to the lid and configured to causes vibrations in the lid to emit sounds derived from the detected noises associated with the toilet.

To achieve the objects described above, the cleaner according to some embodiments of the present disclosure includes a main body forming an airflow path through which air is sucked and exhausted; a dust separation unit disposed in the airflow path and configured to separate dust from air; a fan module disposed in the airflow path and configured to move the air in the airflow path; and a noise control module including a speaker and a detection unit detecting noise or vibration, and configured to cause an output of the speaker to be reduced a level of the noise of at least one frequency range of 1500 Hz or less the noise generated when the fan module is operated, based on the detection signal of the detection unit. wherein the main body includes an exhaust outlet through which air in the airflow path is exhausted and a sound outlet through which the sound of the speaker is exhausted, wherein the exhaust outlet and the sound outlet look the same direction relative to the main body.

An image capture device detects a wind whistle using two or more microphones. The image capture device includes a processor that obtains microphone signals from the two or more microphones and measures coherence values between the microphone signals across a frequency band. The frequency band includes frequency bins, and the processor measures a coherence value for each frequency bin. Based on a detection of an elevated coherence value in a frequency bin, the processor determines the presence of a whistle. The processor attenuates the frequency bin based on a determination that the elevated coherence value is above a threshold.

Provided are a signal processing device, a program, a range hood device, and a selection method for frequency bins in a signal processing device with which it is possible to reduce the load on computation processing for computing filter coefficients and provide an excellent muting effect even when there are a peak band and a notch band in transmission characteristics from a speaker to an error microphone. A parameter setter sets an update parameter such that a filter coefficient W is corrected, only for a first frequency bin that corresponds to a frequency band of a first noise and a second frequency bin that corresponds to a frequency band of a second noise.

A smart-home device may include a recording device configured to record sound during a first time interval and a memory device comprising a plurality of stored sound profiles. The smart-home device may also include a processing system configured to receive an environmental input, select a stored sound profile from the plurality of stored sound profiles based on the environmental input, and perform a noise-cancelation routine on the sound recorded during the first time interval. The stored sound profile may be used as an initial background noise profile for the noise-cancelation routine.

Sufficient sound pressure is obtained in the mid-low range, to provide a SoT module 100 which can be applied to a variety of applications. A SoT module 100 comprises a plate-shaped piezoelectric composite 105 for generating bending vibration by the impression of an AC voltage, a plurality of elastic bodies, one ends of which are bonded to the main surface of the piezoelectric composite 105, the elastic bodies 120a and 120b transmitting vibration of the piezoelectric composite 105 and a vibration plate 130 has a main surface which is bonded to the other ends of the elastic bodies 120a and 120b, wherein the piezoelectric composite 105 comprises piezoelectric elements 110a, 110b formed in a rectangular plate, and there is a position of the centroid of the piezoelectric composite 105 between the plurality of elastic bodies 120a and 120b.

An image capture device detects a wind whistle using two or more microphones. The image capture device includes a processor that obtains microphone signals from the two or more microphones and determines coherence values between the microphone signals across a frequency band. The processor determines a coherence value for each frequency bin of the frequency band. Based on a detection of an elevated coherence value in a frequency bin, the processor determines the presence of a whistle. The processor attenuates the frequency bin based on a determination that the elevated coherence value is above a threshold.