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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2004
David Giesbrecht, Vancouver, CA;
Phillip Hetherington, Port Moody, CA;
David Giesbrecht, Vancouver, CA;
Phillip Hetherington, Port Moody, CA;
QNX Software Systems (Wavemakers), Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, CA;
Abstract
A signal enhancement system improves the understandability of speech or other audio signals. The system reinforces selected parts of the signal, may attenuate selected parts of the signal, and may increase SNR. The system includes delay logic, an adaptive filter, and signal reinforcement logic. The adaptive filter may track one or more fundamental frequencies in the input signal and outputs a filtered signal. The filtered signal may approximately reproduce the input signal approximately delayed by an integer multiple of the signal's fundamental frequencies. The reinforcement logic combines the input signal and the filtered signal output to produce an enhanced signal output.