Multi-channel feedforward active noise control system for reducing snore noise with snore noise-term detection

Abstract

In this paper, a multi-channel feedforward active noise control system for reducing snore noise with noise-term detection is proposed. The snore noise consists of a noise-term and a silent-term, and it is difficult to reduce the snore noise by the active noise control system. Since the conventional multi-channel feedforward active noise control system updates the noise control filters even in the silent-term, the conventional active noise control system updates the noise control filters unnecessarily. Therefore, the proposed multi-channel feedforward active noise control system introduces threshold processing to update the noise control filters only in the noise-term. Owing to this process, it is possible to reduce the update count of the noise control filters. Simulation results show that the proposed active noise control system can reduce the snore noise as same as the conventional active noise control system and can reduce the update count of the noise control filters compared to the conventional active noise control system.