Determining the distance and/or acoustic quality between a mobile device and a base unit

摘要

To determine the distance and/or acoustic quality between a mobile device and a base unit, an acoustic signal is received by a microphone in one of said mobile device and base unit. A correlation of a second signal with the received acoustic signal is determined. An acoustic quality and/or a distance between the mobile device and the base unit is determined based on one or more peaks in the result of the step of determining the correlation.

主权项

1. A method of determining the distance and/or acoustic quality between a mobile device having a microphone and a speaker and a base unit comprising a microphone and a speaker, wherein the mobile device is configured to wirelessly communicate with the base unit and the base unit is configured to connect to a remote monitoring station via a communication network, the method comprising:
receiving an acoustic signal by a microphone in one of said mobile device and base unit; with a processor:
determining coefficients of an adaptive filter for removing a second signal from the received acoustic signal, the second signal corresponding to (a) an acoustic signal received by the microphone in the other one of said mobile device and base unit, or (b) a control signal used to control the speaker in the other one of said mobile device and base unit to output the acoustic signal, anddetermining the acoustic quality and/or the distance between the mobile device and the base unit based the determined coefficients.