Echo cancellation for channels with unknown time-varying gain

Details Echo cancellation for channels with unknown time-varying gain Echo cancellation for channels with unknown time-varying gain

2006-06-10

2011-12-13

Harper, Kevin C (Department: 2462)

Multiplex communications

Duplex

Transmit/receive interaction control

Reexamination Certificate

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08077641

ABSTRACT:
After an initial training session, a “Dynamic Echo Canceller” (DEC) provides echo cancellation where only access to an input signal and a composite output signal are available, and the input signal is subjected to an unknown variable gain function. In one embodiment, the DEC uses echo cancellation to provide a “clean” copy of a second input signal where only a first input signal and a composite of the first and second input signal is available. An example is a “black box” amplifier coupled to a microphone and a phone line, with access to only the microphone input and a combined output signal where it is desired to retrieve a clean copy of a remote caller signal from the combined output. The DEC is applicable to many fields, including: signal separation; cancellation of echoes caused by impedance mismatches, periodic electrical noise, acoustic echoes caused by acoustic coupling, etc.

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