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Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014

Filed:

May. 12, 2009
Applicants:

Wilfrid Leblanc, Vancouver, CA;

Jes Thyssen, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);

Juin-hwey Chen, Irvine, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wilfrid LeBlanc, Vancouver, CA;

Jes Thyssen, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);

Juin-Hwey Chen, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:

Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/02 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0208 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a far-end telephone speech signal to a user of a telephony device in the presence of near-end background noise. As described herein, the system and method improves the intelligibility of the far-end telephone speech signal in a manner that does not require user input and that minimizes the distortion of the far-end telephone speech signal. The system is integrated with an acoustic echo canceller and shares information therewith.


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