Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dual-microphone spatial noise suppression
- Patent Title (中): 双麦克风空间噪声抑制
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Application No.: US12089545Application Date: 2006-11-05
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Publication No.: US08098844B2Publication Date: 2012-01-17
- Inventor: Gary W. Elko
- Applicant: Gary W. Elko
- Applicant Address: US NJ Summit
- Assignee: MH Acoustics, LLC
- Current Assignee: MH Acoustics, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Summit
- Agency: Mendelsohn, Drucker & Associates, P.C.
- Agent Steve Mendelsohn
- International Application: PCT/US2006/044427 WO 20061105
- International Announcement: WO2007/059255 WO 20070524
- Main IPC: H04B15/00
- IPC: H04B15/00 ; H04R3/00

Abstract:
Spatial noise suppression for audio signals involves generating a ratio of powers of difference and sum signals of audio signals from two microphones and then performing noise suppression processing, e.g., on the sum signal where the suppression is limited based on the power ratio. In certain embodiments, at least one of the signal powers is filtered (e.g., the sum signal power is equalized) prior to generating the power ratio. In a subband implementation, sum and difference signal powers and corresponding the power ratio are generated for different audio signal subbands, and the noise suppression processing is performed independently for each different subband based on the corresponding subband power ratio, where the amount of suppression is derived independently for each subband from the corresponding subband power ratio. In an adaptive filtering implementation, at least one of the audio signals can be adaptively filtered to allow for array self-calibration and modal-angle variability.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080260175A1 Dual-Microphone Spatial Noise Suppression Public/Granted day:2008-10-23
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