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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2020
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Gurhan Saplakoglu, Acton, MA (US);
Alexander Kanaris, San Jose, CA (US);
Berkant Tacer, Bellevue, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A system configured to perform distributed echo cancellation processing to attenuate feedback echo from occurring when two devices are acoustically coupled during a communication session. To reduce the feedback echo, one of the devices is configured as a hub device and receives microphone signals, synchronizes the microphone signals, and generates a mixed microphone signal. To enable distributed echo cancellation, the system includes bidirectional feedback link(s) between the hub device and each device synchronized with the hub device. For example, a first bidirectional feedback link sends a microphone signal from a second device to the hub device and sends the mixed microphone signal from the hub device to the second device, which the second device uses to perform echo cancellation. In addition, a second bidirectional feedback link sends a playback signal from the hub device to the second device and sends the output of echo cancellation back to the hub device.