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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1992
Takashi Ariyoshi, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A noise eliminating apparatus includes a first feature extracting block for individually extracting a feature quantity X(f) (f =1, 2, . . . , n) of an input speech containing a noise for n channels (n is an integer), and a second feature extracting block for individually extracting a feature quantity N(f) of the noise for the n channels. The apparatus also includes a noise eliminating block for deriving a first noise eliminating variable k(f) and a second noise eliminating variable d(f) from the feature quantity X(f) of the input speech containing the noise provided for each of the n channels and the feature quantity N(f) of the noise provided for each of the n channels and for generating a feature quantity S(f) of a noise-eliminated input speech in accordance with the following formula: