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- Patent Title: Apparatus suppressing acoustic echo signals from a near-end input signal by estimated-echo signals and a method therefor
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Application No.: US14575328Application Date: 2014-12-18
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Publication No.: US10090882B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Naoya Kawabata
- Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.
- Priority: JP2014-038701 20140228
- Main IPC: H04B3/23
- IPC: H04B3/23 ; H04R3/02

Abstract:
In an echo suppressing apparatus suppressing from a near-end input signal acoustic echo signals caused by a far-end signal, an estimated-echo path characteristic is multiplied by a far-end signal to produce an estimated-echo signal for each frame, and frames of the estimated-echo signals thus obtained are stored in an estimated-echo signal storage. A delay amount estimator calculates the total of differences between the near-end input signal and each estimated-echo signal thus stored, and determines the amount of frame delay having its total of differences minimal. A delay estimated-echo signal calculator uses the amount of frame delay to read out an optimum frame and near frames respectively preceding and following the optimum frame and to calculate a corrected, delay estimated-echo signal. An echo suppressor uses the estimated-echo signal thus corrected to suppress the acoustic echo signals from the near-end input signal.
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