Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an enhanced blind source separation technique to improve separation of highly correlated signal mixtures.SOLUTION: A beamforming algorithm is used to precondition correlated first and second input signals S, S. The beamforming algorithm applies spatial filters 211 to the first signal and the second signal in order to amplify signals from a first direction while attenuating signals from other directions. Such directionality serves to amplify a desired speech signal in the first signal and attenuate the desired speech signal from the second signal. Blind source separation 210 is then performed on the beamformer output signals to separate the desired speech signal and the ambient noise and reconstruct an estimate of the desired speech signal. To enhance the operation of the beamformer and/or blind source separation, calibration is performed at one or more stages 208, 213, 215.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for noise cancellation and automatic volume control for a mobile audio device.SOLUTION: A mobile audio device performs audio dynamic range control (ADRC) 125 and automatic volume control (AVC) 126 to increase the volume of sound 127 emitted from a speaker of the mobile audio device so that faint passages of the audio can be more audible. This amplification of faint passages occurs without overly amplifying other louder passages, and without substantial distortion due to clipping. Multi-microphone active noise cancellation (MMANC) 133 functionality is used to remove background noise from audio information picked up on microphones of the mobile audio device.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce battery consumption in audio decoding in a mobile device.SOLUTION: Generated audio samples are transferred into at least one memory bank in a power saver block within a mobile device. The power to parts of a decoding system not involved in storing the generated audio samples are switched off after batch decoding of a bitstream associated with multiple audio frames is completed. The bitstream includes fewer bits than those included in one audio file. The memory bank allows power shutoff. Fetching of the decoded can be synchronized with a paging channel of a modem in the mobile device. The transferred audio samples are a lossless compression and may occur after re-encoding.