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Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 11, 2015
Applicant:

Cirrus Logic Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Erik Sherwood, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Carl Grundstrom, Sandy, UT (US);

Assignee:

Cirrus Logic, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02165 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for adjusting a degree of filtering applied to an audio signal includes modeling a probability density function (PDF) of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) coefficient of a primary channel and reference channel of the audio signal; maximizing at least one of PDFs to provide a discriminative relevance difference (DRD) between a noise magnitude estimate of the reference channel and a noise magnitude estimate of the primary channel. The method further includes emphasizing the primary channel when the spectral magnitude of the primary channel is stronger than the spectral magnitude of the reference channel; and deemphasizing the primary channel when the spectral magnitude of the reference channel is stronger than the spectral magnitude of the primary channel. The emphasizing and deemphasizing includes computing a multiplicative rescaling factor and applying the multiplicative rescaling factor to a gain computed in a prior stage of a speech enhancement filter chain when there is a prior stage, and directly applying a gain when there is no prior stage.


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