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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2017
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Willem Bastiaan Kleijn, Eastbourne, NZ;
Sze Chie Lim, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/028 (2013.01); G10L 21/0308 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0308 (2013.01); G10L 21/028 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes: receiving time instants of audio signals generated by a set of microphones at a location; determining a distortion measure between frequency components of at least some of the received audio signals; determining a similarity measure for the frequency components using the determined distortion measure; and processing the audio signals based on the determined similarity measure.