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Method and Device for Removing Echo in an Audio Signal

Faller, Christof  
2010

Acoustic echo control and noise suppression is an important part of any "handsfree" telecommunication system, such as telephony or audio or video conferencing systems. Bandwidth and computational complexity constraints have prevented that stereo or multi-channel telecommunication systems have been widely applied. The advantages are very low complexity, high robustness, scalability to multi-channel audio without a need for loudspeaker signal distortion, and efficient integration of echo and noise control in the same algorithm. The proposed method for processing audio signals, comprises the steps of: -receiving an input signal, wherein the input signal is applied to a loudspeaker -receiving a microphone signal generated by a microphone -estimating the delay between the loudspeaker and the microphone signals and obtaining a delayed loudspeaker signal, -estimating a coloration correction values of the echo path on the delayed loudspeaker signal, -using information of the delayed loudspeaker signal, microphone signal, and coloration correction values to determine gain filter values, -apply the gain filter values to the microphone signal to remove the echo.

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EPO Family ID

35614096

Author(s)
Faller, Christof  
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Alternative title(s) : (de) Ein verfahren zum unterdrücken eines echos in einem audiosignal (fr) Un procédé pour supprimer un écho dans un signal audio (en) A method for removing echo in an audio signal

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TTO:6.0573

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DOICountry codeKind codeDate issued

US7742592

US

B2

2010-06-22

US2008192946

US

A1

2008-08-14

WO2006111369

WO

A1

2006-10-26

EP1715669

EP

A1

2006-10-25

Available on Infoscience
September 22, 2015
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