Stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation using non-linear transfo

Details Stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation using non-linear transfo Stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation using non-linear transfo

1996-11-12

1998-10-27

Harvey, Minsun Oh

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

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379410, 379406, H04B 320

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058287566

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for estimating individual impulse responses for a stereophonic communication system, such as a teleconferencing system, which involves selectively reducing the correlation between the individual channel signals of the stereophonic system. Selective reduction of stereophonic source signal correlation advantageously results in the estimation of individual impulse responses of a receiving room of the stereophonic communication system. The selectively reduced-correlation source signals are provided to conventional adaptive filters and the receiving room loudspeakers. Automatic echo cancellation is performed in a conventional fashion, but on the selectively reduced-correlation source signals. Specifically, selective reduction of source signal correlation between two stereophonic channels of a teleconferencing system is achieved by introducing a small non-linearity into each channel in order to reduce the interchannel coherence. In accordance with certain illustrative embodiments of the present invention, each channel signal has added thereto a non-linear function of the channel signal itself, thereby reducing the interchannel coherence while preserving the quality of the signal. In one particular embodiment, the non-linear function comprises the half-wave rectifier.

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