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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Graham P Eatwell, Glen Burnie, MD (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
381 942 ;
Abstract
A noise reduction filter for enhancing noisy audio signals, such as speech or music. In accordance with the invention, a noisy signal is passed through a first adaptive prediction filter so as to obtain a first signal component corresponding to the predictable part of the noisy signal and a second signal component corresponding to a prediction error. The first and second signal components are each attenuated respectively, according to the levels of signal and noise in each component, and then recombined to form an enhanced output signal.