Consolidated voice activity detection and noise estimation

Details Consolidated voice activity detection and noise estimation Consolidated voice activity detection and noise estimation

2006-05-02

2006-05-02

Tran, Sinh (Department: 2646)

Telephonic communications

Echo cancellation or suppression

Combined diverse function

C379S406010, C379S406020, C379S406040, C379S406050, C379S406070, C379S406160

Reexamination Certificate

active

07039181

ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus compensating for background noise associated with a transmitted signal. In a first embodiment, an adder combines an echo estimate with the the transmitted signal to form a processed signal, a noise reduction circuit uses a background noise estimate to subtract the background noise from the processed signal, and a non-linear processor uses the background noise estimate to combine a compensating background noise signal with the proccssed signal. In another embodiment, the noise reduction circuit divides the processed signal into sub-bands. With variations of an embodiment, the nonlinear processor is a sub-band non-linear processor, the processed signal is divided into sub-bands, and the background estimate includes sub-band noise estimates.

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