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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2006
Anand Venkataraman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Martin Graciarena, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Anand Venkataraman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Martin Graciarena, Menlo Park, CA (US);
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for active noise cancellation. In one embodiment, a method for recognizing user speech in an audio signal received by a media system (where the audio signal includes user speech and ambient audio output produced by the media system and/or other devices) includes canceling portions of the audio signal associated with the ambient audio output and applying speech recognition processing to an uncancelled remainder of the audio signal.