DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE ANR FILTER AND SIGNAL PROCESSING TOPOLOGY

摘要

An ANR circuit, possibly of a personal ANR device, incorporates an signal processing topology to support the provision of feedback-based ANR, feedforward-based ANR and pass-through audio in which the topology incorporates a branch in which feedback anti-noise sounds are generated from feedback reference sounds received from a feedback microphone, a branch in which feedforward anti-noise sounds are generated from feedforward reference sounds, and a branch in which modified pass-through audio sounds are generated from pass-through audio sounds received from an audio source, wherein these three branches are combined to combine the generated sounds of each branch into a single output by which an acoustic driver, possibly of the personal ANR device, is driven. For each of these pathways, ANR settings for interconnections of each of the pathways, coefficients of each of the filters, gain settings of any VGA, along with still other ANR settings, are dynamically configurable wherein dynamic configuration is performed in synchronization with the transfer of one or more pieces of digital data along one or more of the pathways.