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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2009
Cornelis Pieter Janse, Eindhoven, NL;
Leon C. A. Van Stuivenberg, Eindhoven, NL;
Harm Jan Willem Belt, Eindhoven, NL;
Bahaa Eddine Sarroukh, Eindhoven, NL;
Mahdi Triki, Eindhoven, NL;
Cornelis Pieter Janse, Eindhoven, NL;
Leon C. A. Van Stuivenberg, Eindhoven, NL;
Harm Jan Willem Belt, Eindhoven, NL;
Bahaa Eddine Sarroukh, Eindhoven, NL;
Mahdi Triki, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention proposes extracting one or more speech signals (-) as well as one or more ambient signals () from sound signals captured by microphones, wherein each of the speech signals corresponds to a different speaker. The invention proposes to transmit both the one or more speech signals (-) and the one or more ambient signals () to a rendering side, as opposed to sending only speech signals. This enables to reproduce the speech and ambient signals in a spatially different way at the rendering side. By reproducing the ambient signals a feeling of 'being together' is created. In an embodiment, the invention enables reproducing two or more speech signals spatially from each other and from the ambient signals so that speech intelligibility is increased despite the presence of the ambient signals.