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A Multi-Channel Wireless Active Noise Control Headphone With Coherence-Based Weight Determination Algorithm

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Active Noise Control (ANC) headphones are commonly employed to create a quiet zone around the ears of users. In conventional ANC technique, the ambient noise is picked up by the reference microphones on the earcups of ANC headphones then relayed to the ANC controller, which generates anti-noise to suppress it. In wireless ANC system, the reference microphone is situated close to the noise source to acquire the high-quality primary noise via wireless communication which significantly improves its noise reduction performance. In this paper, a multi-channel feedforward wireless ANC system is implemented in a headphone. Furthermore, a coherence-based weight determination algorithm is proposed to improve the noise reduction performance of headphones. To validate the efficacy of the proposed wireless ANC headphone, the numerical simulations along with the real-time experiments are performed.

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The research of the project was supported by Ministry of Education, Singapore, under grant AcRF TIER 2-2017-T2-2-060.

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Shen, X., Shi, D., Peksi, S. et al. A Multi-Channel Wireless Active Noise Control Headphone With Coherence-Based Weight Determination Algorithm. J Sign Process Syst 94, 811–819 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-022-01749-4

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