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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2013
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Craig Johnston, Sydney, AU;
Dong Shi, Shanghai, CN;
Xuejing Sun, Beijing, CN;
Glenn N. Dickins, Como, AU;
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method () for determining an estimate () of an echo path property of an electronic device (). The electronic device is configured to render a total audio signal using a loudspeaker (), and the electronic device is configured to record an echo of the rendered audio signal using a microphone (), thereby yielding a recorded audio signal (). The method comprises inserting (), in an inaudible manner, an auxiliary audio signal () into the total audio signal to be rendered; wherein the auxiliary audio signal () comprises a tonal audio signal at a first frequency; isolating () the echo of the auxiliary audio signal () from the recorded audio signal (); and determining () the estimate () of the echo path property based on the inserted auxiliary audio signal () and based on the isolated echo of the auxiliary audio signal ().