[PD] measuring distance between speaker and microphon

Roman Haefeli reduzierer at yahoo.de
Wed Feb 14 13:18:12 CET 2007


hi all

i'd like to create a patch, that measures the distance between the
speaker and the microphone. my first problem is, that i don't know which
kind of signal would be suitable for that purpose. the simplest is to
use a dirac impulse. but on the receiver-side it's hard to separate
unwanted artefacts from the impulse itself. also it would be nice, if it
would be possible to detect the signal reliably at different amplitudes,
since the amplitude heavily changes when moving the mic closer to and
farer from the speaker. i am looking for a method, that allows higher
precision than the usual block-size (which introduces a grid of ~0.5m @
44100Hz, which is not very accurate). also should it be possible to
detect the signal correctly, when there was reverberation added from a
room. i know, there are ultrasonic-bases devices to measure a distance
to a wall, but i don't have clue how they work, but it makes me hope,
that something similar is possible with pd. any hints are much
appreciated.

roman 




	
		
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