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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2006
Phillip A. Hetherington, Port Moody, CA;
Shreyas A. Paranjpe, Vancouver, CA;
Phillip A. Hetherington, Port Moody, CA;
Shreyas A. Paranjpe, Vancouver, CA;
QNX Software Systems Co., Ottawa, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A system improves the perceptual quality of a speech signal by dampening undesired repetitive transient noises. The system includes a repetitive transient noise detector adapted to detect repetitive transient noise in a received signal. The received signal may include a harmonic and a noise spectrum. The system further includes a repetitive transient noise attenuator that substantially removes or dampens repetitive transient noises from the received signal. The method of dampening the repetitive transient noises includes modeling characteristics of repetitive transient noises; detecting characteristics in the received signal that correspond to the modeled characteristics of the repetitive transient noises; and substantially removing components of the repetitive transient noises from the received signal that correspond to some or all of the modeled characteristics of the repetitive transient noises.