Patent ID: 7352869

Claim:
An apparatus for actively controlling vibratory noise, comprising: reference signal generating means for outputting, as reference signals, a reference sine wave signal and a reference cosine wave signal having a frequency based on the frequency of vibration from a vibratory noise source; a first adaptive notch filter for outputting a first control signal based on said reference cosine wave signal and a second adaptive notch filter for outputting a second control signal based on said reference sine wave signal in order to cancel generated vibratory noise which is generated based on the vibration from said vibratory noise source; vibratory noise canceling means for inputting a sum signal representing the sum of said first control signal and said second control signal, and outputting canceling vibratory noise to cancel the generated vibratory noise; error signal detecting means for outputting an error signal based on the difference between said generated vibratory noise and the canceling vibratory noise output from said vibratory noise canceling means; correcting means for correcting said reference cosine wave signal and said reference sine wave signal based on corrective values corresponding to signal transfer characteristics from said vibratory noise canceling means to said error signal detecting means with respect to the frequencies of said reference signals, and outputting the corrected reference cosine wave signal and the corrected reference sine wave signal respectively as first and second reference signals; and filter coefficient updating means for sequentially updating filter coefficients of said first adaptive notch filter and said second adaptive notch filter to minimize said error signal based on said error signal and said first and second reference signals; wherein said correcting means outputs, as said first reference signal, a signal produced by subtracting the product of a sine corrective value based on the sine value of the phase characteristics of the signal transfer characteristics and said reference sine wave signal from the product of a cosine corrective value based on the cosine value of the phase characteristics of the signal transfer characteristics and said reference cosine wave signal, and outputs, as said second reference signal, a signal produced by adding the product of said sine corrective value and said reference cosine wave signal and the product of said cosine corrective value and said reference sine wave signal to each other; and wherein said filter coefficient updating means successively updates the filter coefficients of said first adaptive notch filter based on said first reference signal and said error signal and successively updates the filter coefficients of said second adaptive notch filter based on said second reference signal and said error signal.