An acoustic noise reduction (ANR) headphone described herein has current detection circuitry that detects current consumed by an acoustic driver amplifier as a result of pressure changes due to a tapping of the headphone. Tapping may be performed to change an audio feature or operating mode of the audio system for the headphone. The current detection circuitry senses a characteristic of the current consumed by the acoustic driver amplifier that can be used to determine an occurrence of a tap event. Examples of a characteristic include an amplitude, waveform or duration of the sensed current. Advantageously, the ANR headphones avoid the need for control buttons to initiate the desired changes to the audio feature or operating mode.

Embodiments of active noise control (ANC) headphones and operating methods thereof are disclosed herein. In one example, a headphone includes a speaker, an internal microphone, and a processor. The speaker is configured to play an audio of interest based on an audio source signal. The internal microphone is configured to obtain a mixed audio signal including a noise signal and the audio of interest played by the speaker. The processor is configured to determine a first current system parameter of the headphone based on the mixed audio signal at a first time point, and determine if the first current system parameter of the headphone is higher than a predetermined threshold to determine if the headphone is worn by a user.

Active noise cancellation systems and methods include a feedforward path configured to receive a reference signal comprising ambient noise and adaptively generate an anti-noise signal to cancel the ambient noise. The adaptive filter is tuned in accordance with at least one parameter, which is set by a logic device configured to determine an ambient noise condition based the reference signal by estimating a fullband power of the reference signal, estimating a low-frequency power of the reference signal, comparing the fullband power and low-frequency power to one or more thresholds, and/or setting one or more ambient noise flags. The ambient noise condition may include a quiet background, a wideband noise condition, and/or a low-frequency dominant noise condition.

A headset has at least two functions of an active noise control (ANC) function, an ambient sound hear through (HT) function, or an augment hearing (AH) function. The headset includes a first microphone and a second microphone. The first microphone is configured to collect a first signal. The first signal indicates a sound in a current external environment. The second microphone is configured to collect a second signal. The second signal indicates an ambient sound in an ear canal of a user wearing the headset. The headset can be a left earphone or a right earphone. Processing modes or processing strengths of the left earphone and the right earphone may be the same or different. The headset obtains a target mode based on a scene type of the current external environment; and obtains a second audio signal based on the target mode, the first signal, and the second signal.

Methods for providing a customized audio experience to a user of an audio output device are provided. A user interface is provided on a user device communicatively coupled to the audio output device, the user interface capable of accepting user input for managing the audio experience for the user. A set of activities is provided via the user interface, wherein each activity in the set invokes a set of behaviors configured for the activity for providing the customized audio experience to the user, wherein each behavior in the set customizes the audio experience for the user. A capability is provided via the user interface for the user to launch an activity from the set for invoking the set of behaviors configured for the activity to receive the customized audio experience.

Provided is a mobile terminal capable of reducing cost for carrying out active noise control and/or active sound effect control. Provided is a mobile terminal that carries out active noise control in which, in order to reduce driving source sound transmitted from a driving source to the vehicle interior of a vehicle, a first control signal for outputting cancellation sound from a speaker provided in the vehicle interior is generated, and/or active sound effect control in which a second control signal for outputting from the speaker a sound effect resembling the driving source sound is generated, wherein the vehicle has an on-vehicle system that controls the speaker, and the first control signal and/or the second control signal is transmitted to the on-vehicle system.

Disclosed is a signal processing apparatus including a surrounding sound signal acquisition unit, a NC (Noise Canceling) signal generation part, a cooped-up feeling elimination signal generation part, and an addition part. The surrounding sound signal acquisition unit is configured to collect a surrounding sound to generate a surrounding sound signal. The NC signal generation part is configured to generate a noise canceling signal from the surrounding sound signal. The cooped-up feeling elimination signal generation part is configured to generate a cooped-up feeling elimination signal from the surrounding sound signal. The addition part is configured to add together the generated noise canceling signal and the cooped-up feeling elimination signal at a prescribed ratio.

Provided is a technique for selecting a cancellation filter coefficient that can stably cancel noise for a user using a seat of an aircraft, an automobile, or the like. A cancellation filter coefficient selection apparatus includes: a recording unit configured to record cancellation filter coefficients; a seat position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of a seat used by a user; and a cancellation filter coefficient selection unit configured to, from among the cancellation filter coefficients recorded in the recording unit, select a cancellation filter coefficient corresponding to the position of the seat as a cancellation filter coefficient to be used in filtering for generating a cancellation signal for cancelling noise at a position where quiet is desired, based on a reference signal output by a reference microphone configured to collect noise in a predetermined space. The reference microphone and a speaker for emitting sound based on the cancellation signal are installed on the seat, and positions of the reference microphone and the speaker in the predetermined space change accompanying movement of the seat.

A noise cancellation system for a vehicle, with a microphone for receiving noise and generating a corresponding noise signal; a loudspeaker for emitting an acoustic wave according to a cancellation signal to cancel the noise; a control unit comprising a memory and a controller; wherein the memory has a noise filter; and wherein the controller is configured to obtain at least a vehicle related information of the vehicle; to configure the noise filter based on the at least one vehicle related information; and to generate a cancellation signal based on the noise signal and the noise filter.

A method for controlling a sound control device in a vehicle includes obtaining at least one of a reference signal obtained from a sensor or an error signal obtained from a sound signal of a microphone, estimating a road surface environment corresponding to a road surface on which the vehicle is traveling based on the reference signal, and adjusting a gain for generating a noise control signal having a magnitude within a preset range based on at least one of the road surface environment or the error signal.