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Echo canceling apparatus and method, and voice reproducing apparatus

US6694018B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 21, 1999
Grant dateFeb 17, 2004
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Expiry dateOct 21, 2019

Classification

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

Abstract

An echo canceller is provided in which a down-sampling circuit converts a 16-kHz sampling frequency of a wide-band voice signal output to an 8-kHz sampling frequency of a narrow-band voice signal supplied at an input terminal, an adaptive filter estimates, from the wide-band voice signal whose sampling frequency has been down-sampled to 8 kHz in the down-sampling circuit, an echo signal coming from a speaker to a microphone and having an echo path characteristic imparted to the echo signal by an echo path filter, and a subtraction circuit subtracts from the microphone input signal the echo signal having been estimated by the adaptive filter.

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