Abstract
Hearing protection devices (HPDs) provide both desirable attenuation of environmental noise and undesirable attenuation of auditory warning alarms, such as vehicle backup alarms. Both warning alarm detection and localization performance are affected. A digital cross-correlation based method is described to identify a pre-selected warning alarm to bypass the attenuation of the HPD while maintaining attenuation of environmental noise outside the bandwidth of the alarm. This method can be integrated into existing digital HPD designs. Computer simulation of the algorithm demonstrates that an alarm signal can be detected at signal-to-environmental noise ratios as low as 30 dB for the military and industrial noise sources investigated. Implementation of the method using a modified commercial HPD demonstrates a 7 dB improvement in warning alarm detection threshold compared with an unmodified HPD. Alternative methods for presenting the alarm signal to the user will be discussed as well as modifications to expand the method to accommodate multiple alarm signals.
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