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Patent No.:

US 8331583 B1

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Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012

Filed:

Feb. 18, 2010
Applicant:

Kazuhiko Ozawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Kazuhiko Ozawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 15/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A noise reducing apparatus includes: a voice signal inputting unit inputting an input voice signal; a noise occurrence period detecting unit detecting a noise occurrence period; a noise removing unit removing a noise for the noise occurrence period; a generation source signal acquiring unit acquiring a generation source signal with a time duration corresponding to a time duration corresponding to the noise occurrence period; a pitch calculating unit calculating a pitch of an input voice signal interval; an interval signal setting unit setting interval signals divided in each unit period interval; an interpolation signal generating unit generating an interpolation signal with the time duration corresponding to the noise occurrence period and alternately arranging the interval signal in a forward time direction and the interval signal in a backward time direction; and a combining unit combining the interpolation signal and the input voice signal, from which the noise is removed.


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Ozawa, Kazuhiko. (2012). Noise reducing apparatus and noise reducing method (U.S. Patent No. 8331583). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8331583

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