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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2016
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Shannon M. Short, Atlanta, GA (US);

William A. Hartselle, Norcross, GA (US);

Vernon Meadows, Lilburn, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 15/00 (2006.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01); H04M 1/60 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/1784 (2013.01); H04M 1/6008 (2013.01); H04R 3/002 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1081 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3036 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3045 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for reducing or entirely canceling background or ambient noise from a voice transmission from a communications device. A communications device, such as a mobile telephone, is configured with an ambient noise compensation signal generator that is connected between a first microphone and a mixer. A second microphone is employed to detect ambient noise. An original output of the first microphone and a compensation signal generated by the ambient noise compensation signal generator are mixed together prior to being passed to a transmitter. A buffer is provided between the microphone and the mixer to help synchronize the timing of the signals to be mixed and an output of the mixer is provided to an antenna.


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