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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2002
Hugh J. McLaughlin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tamara L. Logan, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jeff L. Schenck, San Jose, CA (US);
Signalworks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
In a speakerphone system, the signal that is directed to a loudspeaker is filtered by a dynamically controllable highpass filter. The filter characteristics are adjusted on the basis of the power of the signal and the degree of recent microphone activity. The filtered signal is a far-talker signal, while the microphone activity is represented as a near-talker signal that includes an echo component as a consequence of loudspeaker-to-microphone coupling. The degree of microphone activity is determined by a subband analyzer. A noise floor estimator may be used to determine the degree to which the near-talker signal is comprised of background noise, so that the noise can be eliminated in the process of controlling the highpass filter.