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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2010
Applicant:
Esfandiar Zavarehei, Cambridge, GB;
Inventor:
Esfandiar Zavarehei, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for estimating the noise spectrum of an audio signal occupying a certain frequency range. The amplitude of the audio signal is measured at only a subset of the frequency range having a low expected signal to noise ratio at the time of measuring such that the measured amplitude is indicative of noise amplitude at that subset of the frequency range. A predefined noise spectral shape is then adapted by fitting to the noise amplitude so as to form the estimated noise spectrum. The noise spectrum so estimated is used to remove interference noise from the audio signal.