Inventor · Vancouver, BC, CA

Franck Beaucoup

25Patents
11h-index
6Co-inventors
64Inventor score

Filing activity: May 22, 2000 → Jul 18, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7970123B2 Adaptive coupling equalization in beamforming-based communication systems Electricity 51 Active
US8842851B2 Audio source localization system and method Electricity 49 Active
US7831036B2 Method to reduce training time of an acoustic echo canceller in a full-duplex beamforming-based audio conferencing system Electricity 48 Active
US6990193B2 Method of acoustic echo cancellation in full-duplex hands free audio conferencing with spatial directivity Electricity 44 Expired
US8233352B2 Audio source localization system and method Electricity 43 Active
US7724891B2 Method to reduce acoustic coupling in audio conferencing systems Electricity 43 Active
US8213596B2 Method of accelerating the training of an acoustic echo canceller in a full-duplex beamforming-based audio conferencing system Electricity 42 Active
US9357080B2 Spatial quiescence protection for multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation Electricity 35 Active
US7130797B2 Robust talker localization in reverberant environment Electricity 19 Expired
US6643617B1 Method to generate telephone comfort noise during silence in a packetized voice communication system Physics 14 Expired
US8184180B2 Spatially synchronized audio and video capture Electricity 13 Active
US6535844B1 Method of detecting silence in a packetized voice stream Physics 11 Expired
US6711537B1 Comfort noise generation for open discontinuous transmission systems Physics 10 Expired
US7630502B2 Method for optimal microphone array design under uniform acoustic coupling constraints Electricity 10 Active
US9609141B2 Loudspeaker localization with a microphone array Electricity 6 Active
US7991146B2 Anti-howling structure Electricity 4 Active
US8644517B2 System and method for automatic disabling and enabling of an acoustic beamformer Electricity 1 Active
US9215328B2 Beamforming apparatus and method based on long-term properties of sources of undesired noise affecting voice quality Electricity 1 Active
US6999378B2 Parallel GCS structure for adaptive beamforming under equalization constraints Electricity 1 Expired
US9491561B2 Acoustic echo cancellation with internal upmixing Electricity 1 Active
US8265263B2 Delayed adaptation structure for improved double-talk immunity in echo cancellation devices Electricity 1 Active
US9491306B2 Signal processing control in an audio device Electricity 0 Active
US8582754B2 Method and system for echo cancellation in presence of streamed audio Electricity 0 Active
US7085715B2 Method and apparatus of controlling noise level calculations in a conferencing system Physics 0 Expired
US7221755B2 Method of capturing constant echo path information in a full duplex speakerphone Electricity 0 Expired

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