JPH0611095B2 - Automatic mixer device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of use] The present invention is connected to a plurality of audio signal sources, and turns on the channel to which the audio signal source that has generated the audio signal is turned on. The present invention relates to an automatic mixer device that adjusts a gain according to the number of audio signals.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, as an automatic mixer device as described above, for example, there is one described in the specification of US Pat. No. 3,814,856. This automatic mixer device is generally configured as follows. That is, a channel is provided for each of a plurality of microphones, and these channels include a gate circuit that turns on and off an audio signal supplied from the microphone to the channel, and a circuit that detects the level of the audio signal supplied to the channel. , And a comparator to which the level of this audio signal is supplied. Separately, a microphone for detecting ambient noise and a detection circuit for detecting the level of the ambient noise signal from this microphone are provided, and the ambient noise level detected by this detection circuit is compared with the comparator of each channel. Is supplied as a reference signal to the. These comparators provide the gate circuit with a signal that opens the gate circuit when the level of the audio signal being supplied is greater than the ambient noise level. Also, the audio signals that have passed through each channel are added and amplified by an amplifier, which is provided with a circuit that reduces the gain of this amplifier according to the number of channels in which the gate circuit is open. ing. Therefore, when only a certain speaker talks to a certain microphone, the level of the audio signal from the microphone becomes higher than the ambient noise level,
The gate circuit of the channel corresponding to the microphone is opened, and the audio signal is supplied to the amplifier. At this time,
The gain of the amplifier is maximum because there is only one speaker. In this state, when another speaker starts talking to another microphone, the gate circuit of the channel corresponding to the other microphone opens in the same way as described above, and the voice signal of the other speaker is also supplied to the amplifier. To be done. At this time, the gain of the amplifier is lowered because the number of channels in which the gate circuit is open is increased. The reason why the gain of the amplifier is reduced according to the number of channels in which the gate circuit is open is to obtain the maximum loudspeaker gain that does not cause howling.
Further, the reason why only the gate circuit of the channel corresponding to the microphone generating the audio signal is opened is to improve the S / N ratio by operating only the minimum necessary number of channels.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the above-described automatic mixer device, when a speaker starts speaking into one microphone, another microphone picks up the voice and a gate circuit for a plurality of channels. May open at the same time. At this time, since there are many microphones generating audio signals, there is a problem that the gain of the amplifier is reduced and the intelligibility is lowered even though only one person is actually speaking. Also, even if another microphone does not directly pick up the speaker's voice, this speaker's voice is amplified by the amplifier and is amplified by the speaker. There is also a problem that the gain of the amplifier is lowered and the clarity is lowered. Further, since the above-mentioned automatic mixer device is configured to compare the level of the ambient noise with the level of the audio signal, a microphone for detecting the ambient noise, a detection circuit for the ambient noise level, etc. are required, and the configuration is complicated. There was also a problem that became.

An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic mixer device that solves the above problems.

[Means for Solving the Problem] In order to achieve the above object, in the first aspect of the present invention, the maximum value of the level of the audio signal of each channel is detected. Then, the channel generating the maximum value is activated to pass the audio signal.

In the second aspect of the present invention, in each channel, the level of the audio signal of the channel is compared with the reference signal, and when the level of the audio signal is higher than the reference signal,
The channel is activated, but the audio signal of the channel is added to the reference signal of the comparison means of the channel which is not activated.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when detecting the level of the audio signal, the level of the audio signal is detected by the level detecting means after passing the audio signal through the filtering means for noise removal. After the level of the signal has risen above the reference signal and the channel has been activated, the bypass means provided in parallel with this filtering means are activated to even supply noise to the level detection means.

[Operation] In the first aspect of the present invention, the channel having the highest audio signal level among the channels operates. Therefore,
Even if another microphone picks up a voice signal spoken to a certain microphone or another microphone picks up a loud sound from a speaker, the other channel does not operate.

Further, in the second aspect, since the level of the audio signal of the channel is added to the reference signal of the comparing means of the channel which is not operating, the audio signal spoken toward a certain microphone is changed to another signal. Even if the microphone picks up or another speaker picks up the loud sound from the speaker, it is possible to prevent the other channels from operating.

According to the third aspect, the level detection signal of the audio signal supplied to the comparing means of the operating channel includes noise and the like by bypassing the filtering means, and the level is increased accordingly. . Therefore, the activated channel is unlikely to be inactivated.

[Embodiment] FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment has two channels 2a, 2b. Since these channels 2a and 2b have the same configuration, the same reference numerals are given to the same parts among the components, and those of channel 2a have a as a suffix to the reference symbols and those of channel 2b have a suffix. Is added as b, and detailed description is on the channel
Do only for 2a.

Channel 2a has an audio signal input terminal 4a, and this terminal
A microphone, for example, is connected to 4a, and an audio signal from this microphone is supplied to an audio signal transmitting means, for example, a voltage control amplifier 8a, via a variable resistor 6a for level adjustment. The voltage control amplifier 8a is, for example, μPC1252H2 manufactured by NEC Corporation or 2150 manufactured by dbX, Inc. in the United States.
A, 2155, 2151 and the like can be used, and the conceptual diagram of the operating principle is as shown in FIG. That is, the audio switch 10a and the attenuation circuit 11a are connected in parallel, and the attenuation circuit 12a is connected in series to this parallel circuit. When a signal is supplied to the on / off control terminal 14a, the attenuation amount of the attenuation circuit 11a is reduced. When the signal becomes smaller than a predetermined value, the audio switch 10a is turned on, and when the control signal is supplied to the attenuation control terminal 16a, the attenuation amount changes according to the value of the control signal. It is a thing. It should be noted that FIG. 2 is merely a principle diagram, and in reality, one attenuator circuit is controlled by two signals, and the voice switch 10a and the attenuator circuit 1 are controlled.
It works as if 1a and 12a existed. The output signal of the voltage controlled amplifier 8a is supplied to the input side of the combining means, for example, the amplifier 18. Of course, the output signal of the voltage controlled amplifier 8b of the channel 2b is also supplied to the input side of the amplifier 18. The output signal of the amplifier 18 is supplied to the input side of the amplifier 22 via the variable resistor 20 for level adjustment, and the output signal of the amplifier 22 is supplied to the output terminal 24.

Returning to the channel 2a again, the audio signal from the variable resistor 6a is supplied to filtering means for noise removal, for example, a bandpass filter 26a. The bandpass filter 26a, when the microphone is connected to the audio signal input terminal 4a, when a person is holding the microphone,
The cutoff frequency is selected to remove low frequency noise from the audio signal generated by contact between the microphone and the hand.

The output signal of the bandpass filter 26a is amplified by the amplifier 28a, then full-wave rectified by the full-wave rectifier circuit 30a, and then smoothed by the smoothing circuit 32a. Therefore, the output signal of the smoothing circuit 32a represents the level of the audio signal from the microphone connected to the audio signal input terminal 4a. That is, the full-wave rectifier circuit 30a and the smoothing circuit 32a function as an audio signal level detection circuit. The output signal of the smoothing circuit 32a is supplied to one input terminal of the comparator 34a.

On the other hand, the output signal of the bandpass filter 26a is supplied to the mixing circuit 36 provided outside the channel 2a. The mixing circuit 36 includes a bandpass filter 26 for channel 2b.
The output signal of b is also supplied. Since the mixing circuit 36 is composed of an inverting addition amplifier, the output signal of the mixing circuit 36 is an inverted sum of the audio signals of the channels 2a and 2b.
It is supplied to the adders 38a and 38b of 2a and 2b.

The output signal of the bandpass filter 26a is also supplied to the adder 38a, and the output signal of the adder 38a is channel 2
It is the inverse of the audio signal of b. The output signal of the adder 38a is amplified by the amplifier 40a, full-wave rectified by the full-wave rectification circuit 42a, and then smoothed by the smoothing circuit 44a. Therefore,
The output signal of the smoothing circuit 44a represents the level of the audio signal of channel 2b. The amplification degree of the amplifier 40a is
It is about 20 dB lower than the amplifier 28a.

The output signal of the smoothing circuit 44a is supplied to the adder 46a. This adder 46a is also supplied with a noise threshold signal that is set to be slightly higher than the noise level by the variable resistor 48a, and the output signal of the smoothing circuit 32a that is supplied via the electronic switch 50a. The control of the electronic switch 50a will be described later. The output signal of the adder 46a is supplied to the comparator 34a as a reference signal.

The comparator 34a has a hysteresis characteristic and has a fourth characteristic.
The output signal of the smoothing circuit 32a is the adder 46a as shown in FIG.
When it becomes larger than the reference signal a from H, an output signal of H level is generated, and when it becomes smaller than the off level b set a little smaller than the reference signal a by the diode 35a and the resistors 37a and 39a, An L level output signal is generated.

The output signal of the comparator 34a is a bypass means connected in parallel to the bandpass filter 26a, for example, an electronic switch.
Supplied to 52a. This electronic switch 52a is a comparator
It is closed when the output signal of 34a is at H level.

The output signal of the comparator 34a is also supplied to the adder 53a. The adder 53a is also supplied with the output signal of the sub-controller 55a which amplifies the output signal of the full-wave rectifier circuit 30a. The output signal of the adder 53a is supplied to the on / off control terminal 14a of the voltage controlled amplifier 8a. Sub controller 55a
Is composed of a high gain amplifier, for example, an amplifier having an amplification degree of 60 dB, generates an output signal proportional to the input signal level until the input signal level reaches a predetermined value, and the input signal exceeds a predetermined value. Then, the output signal is held at a constant value. When this constant-value output signal is supplied to the on / off control terminal 14a of the voltage control amplifier 8a, the audio switch 14a is turned on and the attenuation circuit 1
The attenuation amount of 1a becomes almost O, and the output signal of the sub-controller 55a until it reaches this value is supplied to the on / off control terminal 14a to control the attenuation amount of the attenuation circuit 11a.

The output signal of the comparator 34a is also supplied to the electronic switch 58a of the control voltage generating circuit 56 via the inverter 54a. The electronic switch 58a is closed when an L level signal is supplied, and supplies a constant voltage to the inverting amplifier 60 of the control voltage generating circuit 56. Similarly, the output signal of the comparator 34b of the channel 2b is also supplied to the electronic switch 58b of the control voltage generating circuit 56 via the inverter 54b. This electronic switch 58b is also closed when an L level signal is supplied, and supplies a constant voltage to the inverting amplifier 60 of the control voltage generating circuit 56. Therefore, when only the comparator of one channel, for example 34a, generates an H level output signal, this H level output signal is inverted by the inverter 54a and supplied to the electronic switch 58a, which closes the electronic switch 58a. Inverting amplifier 60
Is amplified by. Also, a comparator for both channels 2a, 2b
When both 34a and 34b generate an H level output signal, both electronic switches 58a and 58b are closed and the inverting amplifier
The output signal of 60 generates a voltage twice as high as that when only one of the comparators outputs the H level output signal. The output signal of the inverting amplifier 60 is amplified by the logarithmic amplifier 62 and then supplied to the attenuation control terminals 16a and 16b of the voltage control amplifiers 8a and 8b of both channels 2a and 2b through the level adjusting variable resistor 64. To be done. The voltage-controlled amplifiers 8a and 8b are provided when the comparators 34a and 34b both generate an L level output signal or when the comparators 34a and 34b generate an H level output signal. Attenuation is set to OdB and the attenuation is 3 dB when both comparators 34a and 34b generate H level output signals.
A control signal that satisfies the above is supplied from the logarithmic amplifier 62.

The output signals of the smoothing circuits 32a and 32b of each channel are
It is supplied to the maximum value detection circuit 66. This maximum value detection circuit 66
The output signals of the smoothing circuits 32a and 32b are diodes 68a and 68b.
It has comparators 70a and 70b which are supplied to one terminal via a diode 72, and the output signals of the smoothing circuits 32a and 32b are diode 72
It has inverting amplifiers 74a, 74b supplied via a, 72b. The cathodes of the diodes 72a and 72b are connected to each other, and the outputs of the inverting amplifiers 74a and 74b are supplied to the terminals of the comparators 70a and 70b to which the output signals of the smoothing circuits 32a and 32b are supplied. Also, the comparators 70a, 7
The reference signal is supplied to the other terminal of 0b. Since the cathodes of the diodes 72a and 72b are connected to each other, the output signals of the smoothing circuits 32a and 32b are inverted only when the level of the output signal of the smoothing circuit 32a is high, for example, when the level of the output signal of the smoothing circuit 32a is high. It is supplied to the amplifiers 74a and 74b. The output signal of the smoothing circuit 32a is an inverting amplifier 74a,
After being inverted by 74b, it is supplied to the comparators 70a and 70b.
Here, the input signal to the comparator 70a is the sum of the output signal of the smoothing circuit 32a and the inverted signal of the smoothing circuit 32a, and thus becomes O, and the output signal of the comparator 70a becomes L level. On the other hand, the input signal to the comparator 70b is the sum of the output signal of the smoothing circuit 32b and the inverted signal of the output signal of the smoothing circuit 32b, and thus is negative. Therefore, if the reference signal is set to a value slightly negative than O, the comparator 70a to which the output signal of the smoothing circuit 32a having the maximum value is supplied is at the L level, and the smoothing circuit 32b having the non-maximum value is supplied. The output signal of the comparator 70b that has been turned to the H level.

The output signal of the comparator 70a is supplied to the control terminal of the electronic switch 50a via the diode 76a, and the output signal of the comparator 34a inverted by the inverter 54a is also supplied to this control terminal via the diode 78a. Similarly, the electronic switch 50b of the channel 2b is also supplied with the output signal of the comparator 70b of the maximum value detection circuit 66 and the output signal of the comparator 34b inverted by the inverter 54b via the diodes 76b and 78b. The electronic switch 50a is closed when the output signal of the inverter 54a is H level (the output of the comparator 34a is L level) and the output of the comparator 70a of the maximum value detection circuit 66 is H level. Is configured. Similarly, the electronic switch 50b is closed when the output signal of the inverter 54b is H level (the output of the comparator 34b is L level) and the output of the comparator 70b of the maximum value detection circuit 66 is H level. Is configured.
That is, the electronic switches 50a, 50b are closed when the audio signal of the channel to which the electronic switch belongs has a lower level than the audio signals of the other channels.

Hereinafter, the operation of the automatic mixer device will be described, but for convenience of description, the operation will be described assuming that the sub-controllers 55a and 55b are inactive, and then the operation of the sub-controllers 55a and 55b will be described. Now, each electronic switch 50a, 50b, 52a, 52b, 58a, 58b
Are all open.

As shown in the first cycle of FIG. 3, in a state where no audio signal is input from the microphone to either of the audio signal input terminals 4a and 4b, even if the microphone picks up some noise, the bandpass filter 26a, Since they are removed by 26b, the outputs of the smoothing circuits 32a and 32b are both O, and these are supplied to the comparators 34a and 34b. At this time, the output of the mixing circuit 36 that adds the output signals of both bandpass filters 26a and 26b is also O. Therefore, the adders 38a and 38b that add the output signals of both bandpass filters 26a and 26b are added. Is also O, and the outputs of the smoothing circuits 44a and 44b that generate signals obtained by rectifying and smoothing these are also O. Therefore,
Variable resistors 48a and 48b are provided as reference signals to the comparators 34a and 34b.
Since only the noise threshold signal set in step 3 is supplied, the output signals of the comparators 34a and 34b are L level, and the L level control signal is supplied to the on / off control terminals 12a of the voltage control amplifiers 8a and 8b. , The respective audio switches 10a and 10b maintain the off state. Further, since the output signals of the smoothing circuits 32a and 32b are both O, the comparators 70a and 7 of the maximum value detection circuit 66 are
The output signals of 0b are both at the L level. Also, comparators 34a, 3
Since the output signal of 4b is at L level, the output signals of the inverters 54a and 54b are at H level. Therefore, the electronic switch 50
The open state of a and 50b is also maintained. Further, since the output signals of the inverters 54a and 54b are at the H level, the electronic switches 58a and 58b of the control voltage generating circuit 56 are also kept in the open state, and the control voltage is not generated.

In such a state, when an audio signal is input to the audio signal input terminal 4a of the channel 2a as shown in the second cycle, it is rectified and smoothed and supplied to the comparator 34a.
On the other hand, a signal obtained by inverting the audio signal of channel 2a is generated in the mixing circuit 36, and this signal is supplied to the adder 38a where it is added with the audio signal of channel 2a, and the addition value becomes O, which is rectified and smoothed. , And is supplied to the adder 46a.
Therefore, the noise threshold signal set by the variable resistor 48a is supplied to the comparator 34a as a reference signal. Since the output signal of the rectifying / smoothing circuit 32a is larger than this reference signal, the output signal of the comparator 34a becomes H level. As a result, the audio switch 10a of the voltage controlled amplifier 8a is turned on, and the audio signal of the channel 2a is supplied to the amplifier 18a. Further, the electronic switch 52a is closed by the output signal of the comparator 34a being at the H level, and noise generated by holding the microphone in addition to the audio signal is rectified and smoothed and supplied to the comparator 34a. As a result, the level of the signal supplied to the comparator 34a increases, and the comparator 34a easily maintains the H level.

On the other hand, the inverted audio signal of the channel 2a from the mixing circuit 36 is supplied to the adder 38b and is added to the audio signal of O of the channel 2b. Since this is rectified and smoothed and supplied to the adder 46b, the sum of the audio signal of the channel 2a and the noise threshold signal set by the variable resistor 48b is supplied to the comparator 34b as a reference signal. As a result, the output signal of the comparator 34b maintains the L level. Therefore, the voice switch 10b of the voltage controlled amplifier 8b remains open.

At this time, since there is an audio signal only in the channel 2a, the comparator 70b of the maximum value detection circuit 66 becomes H level. Also,
Since the comparator 34b is at L level, the output of the inverter 54b is at H level.
It becomes a level. Therefore, the electronic switch 50b is closed,
The level of its own audio signal is also added to the reference signal of the comparator 34b. Therefore, the comparator 34b does not invert its output to the H level.

At this time, since the output signal of the comparator 34a is at the H level, the electronic switch 58a of the control voltage generating circuit 56 is closed, the control voltage is generated by the control voltage generating circuit 56, and is amplified by the logarithmic amplifier 62. After that, the voltage is supplied to the attenuation control terminals 16a and 16b of both the voltage control amplifiers 8a and 8b, but in this state, the attenuation amount remains OdB.

In this state, channel 2b audio signal input terminal 4a
Even if an audio signal is input to the
If it is lower than the audio signal level of, the maximum value detection circuit 66
Since the output signal of the comparator 70a maintains the L level and the output of the comparator 70b maintains the H level, the state in which only the audio signal of the channel 2a is transmitted does not change as described above.

When the level of the audio signal of the channel 2b is higher than the level of the audio signal of the channel 2a, the comparator 70a of the maximum value detection circuit 66 is at the H level and the output of the comparator 70b is as shown in the third cycle of FIG. It becomes the L level. The output signal of the comparator 70b is at L level, and the output of the inverter 54b is at H level (comparator 3
Since the output of 4b is L level), the electronic switch 50b is opened, the state in which the level of the audio signal of channel 2b is supplied to the comparator 34b is released, and the output signal of the smoothing circuit 44b and the variable resistor 48b are used. The set noise threshold signal is supplied as a reference signal. Here, the smoothing circuit 44b
Output signal of the mixing circuit 66 (channel 2a,
2b) and the channel 2b audio signal are added, that is, the channel 2a audio signal is rectified and smoothed, so the output signal of the comparator 34b becomes H level, Voltage controlled amplifier 8b voice switch
10b is turned on and the audio signal of channel 2b is also amplified.
Is supplied to. Further, the electronic switch 52b is also closed, and noise and the like are rectified and smoothed and supplied to the comparator 34b.

On the other hand, the reference signal of the comparator 34a of the channel 2a is the sum of the level of the audio signal of the channel 2b and the noise threshold signal set by the variable resistor 48a, but the amplifier 40a has a higher level than the amplifier 28a. Since the amplification degree is 20 dB smaller, the output of the smoothing circuit 32a is larger and the output of the comparator 34a maintains the H level unless the sound signal of the channel 2b becomes larger than the sound signal of the channel 2a by 20 dB. Therefore, the audio signal of the channel 2a is also supplied to the amplifier 18.

Also, since the outputs of both comparators 34a and 34b are at the H level,
The electronic switches 58a and 58b of the control voltage generation circuit 56 are both closed, and the control voltage generated by the control voltage generation circuit 56 becomes large. This is a dual voltage controlled amplifier 8 via a logarithmic amplifier 62.
It is supplied to the attenuation control terminals of a and 8b, and as a result, the attenuation amount of the attenuation circuits 12a and 12b of both voltage control amplifiers 8a and 8b is set to 3 dB, and the audio signal attenuated by 3 dB is applied to the channel 2a,
It is supplied to the amplifier 18 from 2b, and the maximum gain is set to the extent that howling does not occur.

In this state, if the audio signal from the channel 2a is interrupted, the output of the comparator 34a becomes L level, the audio switch 8a of the voltage control amplifier 8a is opened, and the electronic switch is also switched.
52a is opened, electronic switch 50a is closed, transmission of the audio signal from channel 2a is interrupted, and comparator 34a
The output signal of is maintained at the L level. Also an electronic switch
58a is opened, the voltage generated by the control voltage generation circuit 56 becomes small, and the attenuation amount of the voltage control amplifier 8b becomes OdB. Thereafter, the same operation is performed.

Next, the functions of the sub controllers 55a and 55b will be described. For example, when an audio signal as shown in FIG. 4 (a) is input, its envelope becomes as shown in FIG. 4 (b). At this time, assuming that the reference signal supplied to the comparators 34a and 34b is a and the off level due to hysteresis is b, the output signals of the comparators 34a and 34b are as shown in FIG. If the signals are directly supplied to the on / off control terminals 12a and 12b of the control amplifiers 8a and 8b, the voice signals in the shaded portions in FIG. 6 (b) are cut off, resulting in breaks in the on-peak sound, breaks in the busy sound, and breaks in the endings. , Unnaturalness becomes a problem. Therefore, in this embodiment, the on / off control terminal 12 is obtained by adding the output signals of the sub-controllers 55a and 55b and the output signals of the comparators 34a and 34b by the adders 53a and 53b.
It is supplied to a and 12b. The sub-controllers 55a and 55b are shown in FIG.
As shown in, until the output signals of the full-wave rectifier circuits 30a, 30b reach near a certain level, the output signals increase in proportion to the envelope of the output signals of the full-wave current circuits 30a, 30b, After reaching a level near a certain level, when the output signal of the full-wave rectifier circuits 30a, 30b becomes smaller than a certain level, the output signal of the full-wave rectifier circuits 30a, 30b is proportional to the envelope. The output signal is reduced. Even when this level is set to a constant value, when the outputs of the comparators 34a and 34b become the H level, the electronic switches 52a and 52b are closed and the output level of the full-wave rectifier circuit 30a becomes large.
Almost at the same time that the outputs of the comparators 34a and 34b become H level, the output signals of the sub control circuits 55a and 55b are held at constant values.
That is, the output signals of the sub-controllers 55a and 55b are proportional to the level of the audio signal until the level of the audio signal reaches the vicinity of the reference signal a or the off level b, but after reaching, it becomes a constant level. Become. Therefore, when the sum of the output signals of the sub-controllers 55a and 55b is added to the output signals of the comparators 34a and 34b by the adders 53a and 53b and supplied to the on / off control terminals 12a and 12b of the voltage control amplifiers 8a and 8b, Until the outputs of the sub-controllers 55a, 55b reach a constant value, the attenuation amount of the attenuating circuit 11a becomes smaller, and when the output signals of the sub-controllers 55a, 55b become smaller than a constant value, the corresponding And the amount of attenuation increases. Therefore, as shown in FIG.
Even when the output signal of b is at the L level, the voice signal is not abruptly cut off in the voltage controlled amplifiers 8a and 8b, and therefore, no break in the talk sound, break in the busy sound, or break in the ending word occurs. , There is no unnaturalness.

In the above embodiment, the number of channels is two for convenience of explanation, but the number of channels can be arbitrarily increased depending on the situation. In this case, the voltage control amplifiers corresponding to the voltage control amplifiers 8a and 8b need to have an attenuation amount of 10 logn (dB), where n is the number of voltage control amplifiers that are on. Further, in this case, since the mixing circuit 36 is supplied with the audio signals of the respective channels and the mixing circuit 36 generates a signal of the sum of the audio signals of the respective channels, the addition corresponding to the adders 46a and 46b in the respective channels is performed. A signal proportional to the sum of the levels of the audio signals of the other channels is supplied to the container. In the above embodiment, the voltage control amplifiers 8a and 8b are also provided.
Although the amount of attenuation is adjusted, the gain of the amplifier 18 or 22 may be adjusted, for example. In addition, the voltage control amplifier 8a,
Although 8b controls the amount of attenuation, amplification means may be provided in the voltage control amplifier to control the gain of this amplification means. Further, although the band pass filter is used in the above embodiment, a low pass filter may be used instead. Further, in the above embodiment, the comparators 34a and 34b are provided with hysteresis, but it is unnecessary in some cases.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the gain control of the voltage control amplifiers 8a and 8b is performed by using the common amplifier 62 and the variable resistor for level adjustment.
The common signal from 64 is used for uniform control, but each channel 2a, 2b may be controlled individually. At this time, the individual channel control signal is generated by combining the signals obtained from the comparators 34a and 34b, the mixing circuit 36, the maximum value detection circuit 66 and the like. By controlling the gain individually for each channel 2a and 2b in this manner, it becomes possible to meet various system specifications and requirements. For example, when applied to a conferencing system, it gives priority to the chairman unit and, for members of the parliamentary unit, who always tend to speak quietly or audibly, has more or less amplification or less attenuation. It can be set to be smaller or larger. That is, the method according to the present invention is more flexible in terms of system configuration or design, as compared with the conventional method in which the voltage control amplifier provided at the final stage of the system uniformly controls the gain.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the maximum value detection circuit is provided to transmit the audio signal of the channel in which the maximum value is generated. While listening to the sound, another microphone picks up this voice, or another microphone picks up the loud sound from the speaker. Therefore, the clarity does not decrease.

In addition, since the audio signal of the own channel is supplied as a reference signal to the comparators other than the operating channel, when another microphone is talking to a certain microphone, this microphone is Even if there is only one speaker, a plurality of channels operate and the clarity is not deteriorated by picking up a voice or picking up a loud sound from a speaker by another microphone.

Furthermore, when such a channel operates, the noise removal filter is cut off so that even the noise level is supplied to the comparator. , Perform stable operation.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, a microphone and a detection circuit for detecting ambient noise are not required, so that the circuit configuration can be simplified.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an automatic mixer device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a principle diagram of a voltage control amplifier used in the embodiment, and FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory view of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is an operation explanatory view of the sub-controller used in the embodiment. 2a, 2b …… Channel, 4a, 4b …… Audio signal input terminal,
8a, 8b ... Electrostatic thickness control amplifier (signal transmission means), 18 ... Amplifier (combining means), 26a, 26b ... Band pass filter (filtering means), 34a, 34b ... Comparator, 46a, 46b .. Adder, 52a, 52b ... Electronic switch (bypass means), 66 ...
… Maximum value detection circuit.

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of audio signal input terminals, a plurality of channels provided for each of these audio signal input terminals, and an output terminal, which activates and operates a channel to which an audio signal is supplied. In the automatic mixer device that adjusts the signal generated at the output terminal according to the number of channels, the audio signal transmission means that is provided for each of the channels and that transmits the input audio signal when the control signal is supplied, The maximum voice is included including a synthesizing means for synthesizing the output signal of the audio signal transmitting means and supplying it to the output terminal, and a means for selecting the maximum value of the audio signals supplied to the audio signal input terminals. An automatic mixer device comprising: a control means for supplying the control signal to the audio signal transmission means connected to an input terminal to which a signal is supplied. 2. The control means is provided for each of the channels to detect the level of the audio signal of the corresponding channel, and the control means is provided for each of the channels to detect the level of the corresponding level detecting means of the channel. A plurality of comparing means for supplying the control signal to the audio transmitting means of the corresponding channel when the signal is compared with the reference signal and the level detection signal is larger than the reference signal, and the output of the maximum value selecting means. Means for adding the level detection signal of the channel to the reference signal of the comparing means of each of the channels to which a non-maximum audio signal is supplied in response.
The described automatic mixer device. 3. The automatic mixer apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the reference signal includes a signal proportional to a sum of level detection signals from level detection means of another channel. 4. A plurality of audio signal input terminals, an output terminal,
A channel provided for each of the audio signal input terminals, which transmits an audio signal input when a control signal in the first state is supplied and an audio signal input when a control signal in the second state is supplied. Proportional to a plurality of channels including audio signal transmitting means for blocking signal transmission, combining means for combining output signals of the respective channels and supplying to the output terminal, and proportional to the number of the audio signal transmitting means in transmission state Reducing means for reducing the audio signal of the audio signal transmitting means in the transmission state, a plurality of rectifying and smoothing means provided for each channel for rectifying and smoothing the audio signal supplied to the corresponding channel, and each channel. The rectifying / smoothing output signal from the corresponding rectifying / smoothing means provided for each of the rectifying / smoothing means is compared with the reference signal, and when the rectifying / smoothing signal is larger than the reference signal, the corresponding chan The control signal in the first state is supplied to the audio signal transmitting means of the channel, and when the rectified and smoothed signal from the corresponding rectifying and smoothing means is smaller than the reference signal, the control signal in the second state is applied to the audio signal of the corresponding channel. Means for adding the rectifying / smoothing signals of the rectifying / smoothing means supplied to the comparing means to the reference signals of the comparing means generating the second control signal, and the plurality of comparing means supplied to the signal transmitting means. An automatic mixer device comprising: 5. The automatic mixer apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the reference signal includes a signal proportional to the sum of signals obtained by rectifying and smoothing audio signals of channels other than the channel to which the comparing means to which the reference signal is supplied belongs. . 6. The automatic mixer apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the reducing means is provided for each of the channels. 7. A plurality of audio signal input terminals and an output terminal,
A channel provided for each of the audio signal input terminals, which transmits an audio signal input when a control signal in the first state is supplied and an audio signal input when a control signal in the second state is supplied. Proportional to a plurality of channels including audio signal transmitting means for blocking signal transmission, combining means for combining output signals of the respective channels and supplying to the output terminal, and proportional to the number of the audio signal transmitting means in transmission state And a reducing means for reducing the audio signal of the audio signal transmitting means in the transmission state, a filtering means for filtering the audio signal of the corresponding channel provided for each channel, and a filtering means provided for each channel. A plurality of rectifying and smoothing means for rectifying and smoothing the output signal of the filtering means of the channel to be
The rectifying / smoothing signal of the corresponding rectifying / smoothing means provided for each channel is compared with a reference signal, and when the rectifying / smoothing signal is larger than the reference signal, the control signal in the first state is the audio signal of the corresponding channel. When the rectified and smoothed signal is supplied to the transmission means and is smaller than the reference signal, the second
A plurality of comparing means for supplying the control signal of the above state to the audio signal transmitting means of the corresponding channel, and the comparing means of the corresponding channel provided in parallel with the filtering means for each of the channels are in the first state. And a bypass means for forming a bypass path when the control signal is generated. 8. The automatic mixer apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the reference signal includes a signal proportional to a sum of signals obtained by rectifying and smoothing audio signals of channels other than the channel to which the comparing means to which the reference signal is supplied belongs. . 9. The automatic mixer circuit according to claim 7, wherein the reducing means is provided in each of the channels.