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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a measurement device capable of measuring a howling margin objectively and accurately without relying on the auditory of an operator. SOLUTION: A howling margin measurement device 20 compresses and outputs an inputted voice signal at a prescribed ratio if the level of inputted voice signal is at a threshold level or higher. A control means 23 reads the compression level of a compressor 22 while gradually raising the gain of a gain adjusting means 21. Based on whether the read compression level is at least at a prescribed level or higher or not, the control means judges occurrence of howling. A howling margin is calculated based on the gain of the gain adjusting means 21 when the howling is judged to have occurred. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a frequency characteristic determination method of a dip filter that can properly determine characteristics of the dip filter, without requiring experience and skill because the dip filter is used for resonation prevention, an operator or the like of an acoustic facility relies on own hearing to hear out resonated sounds so as to decide the resonation frequency as a removal frequency of the dip filter, and sets the attenuation level and sharpness of dip by rule of thumb. SOLUTION: The resonation frequencies f2 and f3 detected in a resonated space are determined as the center frequencies of the dip. A basic amplitude frequency characteristic Ca and a target amplitude frequency characteristic Cd are obtained, on the basis of the measured values of a speaker and a microphone in the resonated space. In the target amplitude frequency characteristic Cd, smoothness on the frequency axis is larger than that of the basic amplitude frequency characteristic Ca. The attenuation level and the sharpness of the dip are determined, on the basis of the difference between the basic amplitude frequency characteristic Ca and the target amplitude frequency characteristic Cd in the center frequencies f2 and f3 of the dip and frequencies in the vicinity thereof. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the following problem; conventionally, to detect a resonance frequency, a signal for measurement has been radiated from a loudspeaker, and received by a microphone to analyze the sound signal received by the microphone, but to accurately detect the resonance frequency, not only the result of this analysis, but also it is necessary for a measuring person after all to listen to the sound and judge the resonance frequency. SOLUTION: This resonance frequency detection device 20 is provided with a sound source means 21, signal composition changeover means 26, 27, and a measuring means 25. The signal composition changeover means 26, 27 are able to change over from/to a 1st state of outputting the signal for measurement to/from a 2nd state of outputting a composite signal of the signal for measurement and an output signal from the microphone 14. The detection device 20 is so arranged as to detect the resonance frequency based on the comparison between a 1st amplitude frequency characteristic measured in the 1st state output and a 2nd amplitude frequency characteristic measured in the 2nd state. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately detect a resonance frequency without requiring experience nor skill since the resonance frequency is detected conventionally by radiating a signal for measurement from a speaker, receiving it by a microphone, and analyzing the output signal of the microphone and not only the analysis result, but also a final measurer's judgment of the resonance frequency by hearing are needed for accurate detection of the resonance frequency. SOLUTION: The resonance frequency in a sound reinforcement space is detected based upon basic amplitude frequency characteristics obtained by radiating the specified signal for measurement from the speaker 13 arranged in the sound reinforcement space 40, 1st amplitude frequency characteristics obtained by radiating the signal for measurement and a 1st delay signal generated by delaying the output of the microphone 14 by a 1st delay time of ≥0 and receiving a sound by the microphone 14, and 2nd amplitude frequency characteristics obtained by radiating the output signal of the microphone 14 and a 2nd delay signal generated by delaying the output of the microphone 14 by a 2nd delay time of ≥0 and receiving a sound. Here, the 2nd delay time and 1st delay time are different from each other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that appropriate setting requires skill even though a dip filter is sometimes used for resonance prevention and an operator, etc., for a sound facility recognizes resonance sound depending on his/her own sense of hearing to determine a resonance frequency, setting an attenuation level of a dip and the degree of its sharpness according to an empirical rule with the resonance frequency as an eliminating frequency. SOLUTION: Resonance frequencies f2 and f3 detected in a resonance space are determined as a center frequency of the dip. A basic amplitude frequency characteristic Ca and a target amplitude frequency characteristic Cd are calculated on the basis of values measured by a speaker and a microphone in the resonance space. Smoothness on a frequency base is larger in the target amplitude frequency characteristic Cd than in the basic amplitude frequency characteristic Ca. The attenuation level of the dip and the degree of sharpness are determined on the basis of a difference between the basic amplitude frequency characteristic Ca and the target amplitude frequency characteristic Cdin the center frequencies f2 and f3 of the dip and in their neighboring frequencies, wherein frequencies below a prescribed frequency are not made to be a center frequency of the dip. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a howling suppression apparatus capable of effectively suppressing a howling by making frequency information from an adaptive notch filter constant so as to easily estimate the howling frequency. SOLUTION: The howling suppression apparatus 10 is provided with: a signal input section 11; a dip filter 15; the adaptive notch filter 14; a pre-stage filter 13; and a control means 16. The pre-stage filter 13 is a high pass filter, a low pass filter, or a band pass filter. The pre-stage filter 13 after passing a signal from the signal input section 11, transmits the signal to the adaptive notch filter 14. The control means 16 estimates the howling frequency on the basis of a signal of a periodic signal outputted from the adaptive notch filter 14 on the basis of a prescribed estimate criterion and sets the estimated howling frequency as an eliminating frequency of the dip filter 15. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a howling suppression device capable of reducing an operation scale and shortening operation time. SOLUTION: In this howling suppression device provided with a digital filter 4 for turning a howling frequency included in digital input signals to a removal frequency and a control part DSP for detecting the howling frequency and setting the center frequency of the digital filter 4 to the howling frequency, the control part DSP is provided with an adaptive notch filter 12 for detecting the howling frequency.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To detect a resonant frequency while discriminating it from a feedback frequency. SOLUTION: A resonant frequency detecting method includes an attenuation characteristic measuring step of measuring the attenuation characteristic of an output signal from a microphone disposed in a resonance space by loudly sounding a reference frequency signal that continues for a prescribed time, from a speaker disposed in the resonance space and receiving the sound by the microphone. On the basis of the attenuation characteristic, a resonant frequency in the resonance space is detected. The reference frequency signal is a sine wave signal of a specific frequency or a signal having a component within a prescribed frequency width around the specific frequency. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that it is difficult to receive a pulse sound by a microphone in a state of excellent S/N ratio because the pulse sound has a small energy with respect to its amplitude, in a conventionally proposed method for measuring the propagation time of sound waves between a speaker and a microphone by using a pulse. SOLUTION: A sound wave propagation time measuring instrument 1 is provided with a sound source means 11 and an operating means 12. The means 11 outputs a time postponing pulse as a sound source signal to be inputted into the speaker 3. The means 12 calculates a cross-correlation function between the time postponing pulse and a sound-reception signal from the microphone 4 which has received the sound outputted from the speaker 3. The propagation time of the sound waves between the speaker 3 and the microphone 4 is obtained on the basis of the cross-correlation function. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microphone signal input level adjusting apparatus which enables an inexperienced or unskilled adjusting person to perform proper level adjustment. SOLUTION: The microphone signal input level adjusting apparatus is provided with an input signal level adjusting means 12, an average level detecting means 20, a comparing means 31, and a display means 33. The means 12 can receive a sound signal from a microphone and adjust the level of the input sound signal. The means 20 detects the average level of the level-adjusted sound signal by the means 12. The means 31 compares the average level detected by the means 20 with a preset reference value. The means 33 executes different display, depending on a result of comparison of the means 31. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI