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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2021
Applicant:

Mitel Networks Corporation, Ottawa, CA;

Inventors:

Mirjana Popovic, Ottawa, CA;

Dieter Schulz, Dunrobin, CA;

Roger Bastin, Ottawa, CA;

Andrew Wu, Kanata, CA;

Logendra Naidoo, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01); H04R 1/32 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); G10K 11/17823 (2018.01); H04R 1/326 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); G10K 2200/10 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1082 (2013.01); G10K 2210/12 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01); H04R 2201/40 (2013.01); H04R 2410/01 (2013.01); H04R 2430/20 (2013.01); H04R 2499/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communication system with a noise cancellation (NC) assembly providing adaptive or dynamic noise cancellation. The NC assembly includes a localizer module determining, during a communication session (active speaking or during idle times), a location of the active talker. The NC assembly includes a beam generator forming a beam in the determined direction of the active talker to enhance the active talker speech. Once the NC assembly has determined the position of the active talker, the NC assembly assigns a microphone of the microphone array or generated beam in that active direction to be the 'active signal' source. The NC assembly assigns a second microphone or beam to be the noise source for NC purposes, and this source may be selected to be in acoustic shadow of the first microphone used as the active signal source or may be the farthest away in its position from the active talker's position.


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