Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Noise or distortion suppression – Spectral adjustment
Patent
1997-09-16
2000-10-10
Lee, Ping
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Noise or distortion suppression
Spectral adjustment
381 947, H04B 1500
Patent
active
061309494
ABSTRACT:
A time difference .DELTA..tau. between the arrival of acoustic signals from sound sources to microphones 1, 2 is detected from output channel signals L, R from microphones 1, 2. By Fourier transform, the signals L, R are divided into respective frequency bands L(f1)-L(fn), R(f1)-R(fn). Differences .DELTA..tau.i (i=1, 2, . . . n) in the time-of-arrival of L(f1)-L(fn) and R(f1)-R(fn) to the microphones 1, 2 as well as a signal level difference .DELTA.Li are detected. L(f1)-L(fn), R(f1)-R(fn) are divided into a low range of fi<1/(2 .DELTA..tau.), a middle range of 1/(2 .DELTA..tau.) <fi<1/.DELTA..tau., and a high range of fi>1/.DELTA..tau.. Utilizing .DELTA..tau.i for the low range, .DELTA.Li and .DELTA..tau.i for the middle range and .DELTA.Li for the high range, a determination is made from which sound source L(fi), R(fi) are oncoming to deliver outputs separately for each sound source. The outputs are subject to an inverse Fourier transform for synthesis separately for each sound source.
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Aoki Mariko
Aoki Shigeaki
Matsui Hiroyuki
Nishino Yutaka
Okamoto Manabu
Lee Ping
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
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