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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2007
Richard Henry Erving, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Robert Raymond Miller, Ii, Convent Station, NJ (US);
Richard Henry Erving, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Robert Raymond Miller, II, Convent Station, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
In a speakerphone device identification of signals (i.e., voice input or speaker output) in a process for reducing acoustic feedback, in a communication device, is accomplished by adding a signature noise (i.e., an identification mark) to output signals radiated by the speaker to enable these signals to be separated from speech input to the microphone. Having identified the signal (i.e., speech output) likely to cause a 'singing' phenomenon, appropriate insertion loss to reduce the feedback may be added to the appropriate speech path within the communication device, to reduce a probability of singing.