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“#Canceling unnecessary and unwanted noise<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Reporting in the journal Scientific Reports<\/i>, the team of Tong Xiao, Xiaojun Qiu and Benjamin Halkon highlight the positive impacts for health and wellbeing of their ‘virtual Active Noise Control\/Cancelation (ANC) headphone’ and its enhanced ability to reduce ambient noise.<\/p>\n

By integrating laser-based technology<\/a>\u2014which can deal with high frequencies\u2014into headrests they eliminate the need for users to wear head\/ear phones or buds.<\/p>\n

So, in an open plan or home office, you can cancel out colleagues’ chatter, ringing phones, the neigbour’s mower, the dog barking, and the kettle whistling while you work without the discomfort \/ inconvenience of a set of headphones\u2026<\/p>\n

And, in enclosed spaces such as cars and aircraft, the virtual headset can significantly reduce all the extraneous noises that can enter the environment, decreasing distractions and making work\/rest easier. For machinery and equipment operators, it provides a solution that reduces fatigue often caused by enclosed wearable headphones.<\/p>\n

“What we achieved for this ANC headrest\/chair is that the ANC performance is significantly improved over the current state-of-the-art result. In particular, some of the high-pitched noise, previously difficult to cancel out, can now be reduced,” said Tong Xiao.<\/p>\n

Attempts to deliver a practical ANC headset have been decades in progress.<\/p>\n


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The system they describe is a remote acoustic app<\/a>roach using a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) and a small, lightweight and retro-reflective membrane pick-up placed in the cavum concha of a user’s ear.<\/p>\n

LDVs typically have very high sensitivity with commercially available instruments able to resolve vibration displacements down to pm and velocities down to nm\/s resolution. The membrane pick-up can be designed to be small and lightweight and have a wide dynamic range.<\/p>\n

“The results show that more than 10 dB sound attenuation can be obtained for an ultra-broadband frequency range up to 6 kHz in the ears for multiple sound sources and for various types of common environmental noise,” said Xiao.<\/p>\n

“This virtual ANC headphone system has significantly better performance than any other virtual error sensing solution in the published literature thus far.”\n <\/p>\n\n

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Pump down the volume: Study finds noise-cancelling formula<\/a>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Tong Xiao et al. Ultra-broadband local active noise control with remote acoustic sensing, Scientific Reports<\/i> (2020). DOI: 10.1038\/s41598-020-77614-w<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n
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