H04R3/007

Protection of speaker from excess excursion

Systems and methods for protecting a loudspeaker from excessive excursion include an audio source, an adaptive excursion protection filter, an audio clipper, an inverse excursion protection filter, an amplifier and a loudspeaker. The system performs operations including receiving an audio signal, applying an excursion protection filter, the excursion protection filter adapting in real-time to one or more speaker conditions, clipping the audio signal, applying an inverse excursion protection filter, and amplifying, using an amplification circuit, the audio signal for output to the speaker.

Methods and apparatus for volume adjustment

Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for volume adjustment are disclosed herein. An example method includes collecting data corresponding to a volume of an audio signal as the audio signal is output through a device, when an average volume of the audio signal does not satisfy a volume threshold for a specified timespan, determining a difference between the average volume and a desired volume, and applying a gain to the audio signal to adjust the volume of the audio signal to the desired volume, the gain determined based on the difference between the average volume and the desired volume.

AUDIO MIXING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
20220417688 · 2022-12-29 ·

An audio mixing device includes: a gain setting circuit configured to set first to n-th gains based on a command input from the outside, n being an integer of 2 or more; and a mixing circuit configured to output a mixing signal obtained by mixing two or more of first to n-th multiplication data obtained by respectively multiplying first to n-th audio data by the first to n-th gains.

Voltage-to-current architecture and error correction schemes

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are generally directed to circuitry and techniques for voltage-to-current conversion. For example, certain aspects provide a circuit for signal amplification including a first amplifier; a first transistor, a gate of the first transistor being coupled to an output of the first amplifier and a drain of the first transistor being coupled to an output node of circuit; a first resistive element coupled between a first input node of the circuit and an input of the first amplifier; a second amplifier; a second transistor, a gate of the second transistor being coupled to an output of the second amplifier and a drain of the second transistor being coupled to the output node of circuit; and a second resistive element coupled between a second input node of the circuit and an input of the second amplifier.

CONTENT AND ENVIRONMENTALLY AWARE ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE COMPENSATION

Some implementations involve receiving a content stream that includes audio data, determining a content type corresponding to the content stream and determining, based at least in part on the Receiving, by a control system and via an interface system, a content stream that includes audio data content type, a noise compensation method. Some examples involve performing the noise compensation method on the audio data to produce noise-compensated audio data, rendering the noise-compensated audio data for reproduction via a set of audio reproduction transducers of the audio environment, to produce rendered audio signals, and providing the rendered audio signals to at least some audio reproduction transducers of the audio environment.

AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS

The present disclosure relates to circuitry comprising: amplifier circuitry configured to receive a variable supply voltage, wherein the supply voltage varies according to an output signal of the amplifier circuitry; monitoring circuitry configured to monitor one or more parameters of an output signal of the amplifier circuitry; and processing circuitry configured to receive an indication of the voltage of the variable supply voltage and an indication of the monitored parameters from the monitoring circuitry and to apply a correction to one or more of the monitored parameters to compensate for coupling between the variable supply voltage and the monitoring circuitry.

METHOD FOR EQUALIZING INPUT SIGNAL TO GENERATE EQUALIZER OUTPUT SIGNAL AND ASSOCIATED PARAMETRIC EQUALIZER

A parametric equalizer includes an equalizer circuit, a first protection circuit, a second protection circuit, and a first addition circuit. The equalizer circuit is arranged to receive an input signal, and process the input signal to generate an output signal. The first protection circuit is arranged to generate a first protection signal according to the output signal, the input signal, and a first processed signal. The second protection circuit is arranged to generate a second protection signal according to the input signal and a second processed signal. The first addition circuit is coupled to the first protection circuit and the second protection circuit, and is arranged to combine the first protection signal and the second protection signal to generate an equalizer output signal.

OTP programmable microphone assembly

The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for programming one-time programmable fuses of microphone assemblies. One microphone assembly includes a housing, a transducer, a filter circuit, and an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has a fuse block having a one-time programmable (OTP) fuse configurable in a programming mode of operation during which a voltage applied to the supply voltage contact is increased relative to a voltage applied to a supply voltage contact in a normal mode of operation. The microphone assembly further includes a protection circuit configured to regulate a voltage at the voltage input terminal of the integrated circuit during the programming mode of operation based on a comparison of a voltage at the voltage input terminal with a reference voltage. The voltage on the voltage input terminal of the integrated circuit tracks the reference voltage during the programming mode of operation.

CURRENT DETECTION CIRCUIT, CHIP, AND CURRENT DETECTION METHOD USED FOR SPEAKER PROTECTION
20220386023 · 2022-12-01 ·

The present application provides a current detection circuit, chip, and current detection method used for speaker protection; by means of a current detection module, power tube current mirroring technology is used to perform sampling of a speaker current and convert the current to a voltage so as to output a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal; the design of the circuit does not increase the power loss of a Class_D circuit. Furthermore, in combination with an analog-to-digital converter, the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal are converted into PDM codes to as to calculate to obtain the current value parameter on the speaker; the effective bits may be as high as 13 bits; even though the output power of a Class_D is very large, there is no need to increase the anti-cut top distortion function, and the magnitude of the speaker current can also be detected normally.

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY CONTROLLING DYNAMIC RANGE
20220385255 · 2022-12-01 · ·

An audio processing apparatus configured to limit a dynamic range of an audio signal includes a variable gain amplifier configured to generate an output signal by amplifying or attenuating an input signal, a level detector configured to detect a level of the input signal or the output signal, and a gain controller configured to perform an attack and a release based on the level and a plurality of threshold values.