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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2011
Luke C. Walters, Miami, FL (US);
Vasu Iyengar, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Martin David Ring, Ashland, MA (US);
Luke C. Walters, Miami, FL (US);
Vasu Iyengar, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Martin David Ring, Ashland, MA (US);
Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for combining signals includes a first microphone generating a first input signal having a first voice component and a first noise component, a second microphone generating a second input signal having a second voice component and a second noise component, a mixing circuit, and an adaptive filter. The mixing circuit applies a first gain having a value α to the first input signal to produce a first scaled signal, applies a second gain having a value 1−α to the second input signal to produce a second scaled signal, and sums the first scaled signal and the second scaled signal to produce a summed signal. The adaptive filter computes an updated value of α to minimize the energy of the summed signal based on the summed signal, the first input signal and the second input signal, and provides the updated value of α to the mixing circuit.