Method and apparatus for performing double-talk detection in acoustic echo cancellation
US6766019B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 21, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jul 20, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 15, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M9/082
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing double-talk detection in an acoustic echo canceller in which a detection statistic is advantageously computed based on an estimate of a cross-correlation between the far-end signal and the return signal which has been normalized with use of an estimate of a covariance matrix of the far-end signal. The estimate of the cross-correlation between the far-end signal and the return signal may be further normalized with use of either an estimate of a variance of the return signal or an estimate of a covariance matrix of the return signal. In certain illustrative embodiments of the invention, one or more of these quantities may be estimated based on signal samples sampled over a predetermined time window. And in another illustrative embodiment of the present invention, the coefficients of the adaptive filter employed in the acoustic echo canceller itself are advantageously used to compute the detection statistic. These computations may be performed in either the time domain or the frequency domain. The detection statistic so computed is compared with a predetermined threshold, which threshold may be advantageously fixed at a value close to one, in orde…
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