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Method and apparatus for multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation

US5661813A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 24, 1995
Grant dateAug 26, 1997
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Expiry dateOct 24, 2015

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M9/082
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A variation in the cross-correlation between current received signals of different channels is extracted which corresponds to the cross-correlation between previous received signals, and the extracted variation is used as an adjustment vector to iteratively adjust the estimation of the impulse response of each echo path. Furthermore, by additionally providing a function of actively varying the cross-correlation between the received signals to such an extent as not to produce a jarring noise, it is possible to reconstruct acoustic signals by individual loudspeakers and utilize received signal added with the cross-correlation variation to obtain the adjustment vector for an estimated echo path vector.

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