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7627129 Apparatus and method for suppressing feedback  
An apparatus for suppressing feedback in an environment where a microphone and a loudspeaker are located, comprises a means for embedding a test signal into a loudspeaker signal, a microphone...
7627287 On-channel repeater  
An on-channel repeater has a receiving antenna for receiving an RF signal and a transmitting antenna for transmitting on the same frequency as the input signal. An amplification path between the...
7609841 Frequency shifter for use in adaptive feedback cancellers for hearing aids  
A decorrelation method for improving feedback cancellation utilizes a small frequency shifting ratio, on the order of 0.3 percent. Frequency shifting is applied only to the high frequency portion...
7602925 Audio feedback processing system  
A signal processing system improves signal quality by accurately locating and eliminating a feedback signal in an input signal, such as an audio signal. The signal processing system interpolates...
7552050 Speech recognition system and method utilizing adaptive cancellation for talk-back voice  
A voice recognition system includes an adaptive filter and a subtractor. The adaptive filter generates a simulated talk-back voice y(n) by setting a filter coefficient simulating a transfer system...
7542576 Howling detection circuit  
In a howling detection circuit, an audio signal voltage generator generates an audio signal voltage based on a level of an input audio signal. A capacitor is chargeable and dischargeable by the...
7542577 Input sound processor  
An input sound processor compares power at each frequency component of an input sound with a reference value, and sets multiplication points indicating frequency components at which the total power...
7515703 Method and system for determining conference call embellishment tones and transmission of same  
A method for providing an embellishment representation of a noise information is discloses. The method comprises measuring a level of the background noise information, wherein the measured level is...
7443989 Adaptive beamforming method and apparatus using feedback structure  
An adaptive beamforming apparatus and method includes a fixed beamformer that compensates for time delays of M noise-containing speech signals input via a microphone array having M microphones (M...
7415117 System and method for beamforming using a microphone array  
The ability to combine multiple audio signals captured from the microphones in a microphone array is frequently used in beamforming systems. Typically, beamforming involves processing the output...
7391877 Spatial processor for enhanced performance in multi-talker speech displays  
Optimal head related transfer function spatial configurations designed to maximize speech intelligibility in multi-talker speech displays by spatially separating competing speech channels combined...
7386142 Method and apparatus for a hearing assistance system with adaptive bulk delay  
A hearing assistance system having adjustable bulk delay for cancellation of a time varying acoustic feedback path. The hearing assistance system including an FIR filter, coefficient update module,...
7324651 Feedback suppression  
Acoustical signals impinging on an input converter are converted into a first electric signal by a controllably variable transfer characteristic. The transfer characteristic is dependent on the...
7302070 Oscillation detection  
The invention relates to oscillation detection and, more particularly, concerns a method and apparatus for identifying oscillation in a signal due to feedback, permitting appropriate action to be...
7292699 Band-limited adaptive feedback canceller for hearing aids  
An improved method for adaptively cancelling acoustic feedback in hearing aids and other audio amplification devices. Feedback cancellation is limited to a frequency band that encompasses all...
7280958 Method and system for suppressing receiver audio regeneration  
The invention concerns a method ( 500 ) and system ( 100 ) for suppressing receiver audio regeneration. The method ( 500 ) includes the steps of receiving a communication signal ( 502 ), at a Radio...
7242781 Null adaptation in multi-microphone directional system  
Improved approaches to adaptively suppress interfering noise in a multi-microphone directional system are disclosed. These approaches operate to adapt the direction null for the multi-microphone...
7227959 Multi-channel digital feedback reducer system  
The present invention provides method and apparatus that improve processing of acoustic signals by reducing acoustic feedback in an acoustic system. An aspect of the invention is a multi-channel...
7203328 Hearing aid, and method for reducing feedback therein  
Feedback reduction in hearing aids is simplified and improved in an amplification device that has two separate compensation paths, an acoustic input and an inductive input. In the first...
7203324 Audio feedback processing system  
This invention is an audio system capable of identifying frequencies of feedback signals and filters these feedback signals. Frequency interpolation is utilized on a sampled frequency spectrum...
7190800 Howling control device and howling control method  
A howling control apparatus and howling control method for controlling time up to the cancellation of howling suppression according to a howling occurrence situation, thereby eliminating the...
7162044 Audio signal processing  
Systems, devices, and methods are provided to inhibit at least one feedback component of an input audio signal by adjusting a feedback-inhibiting filter through a narrowband subaudible signal. The...
7155022 Electromagnetic feedback reduction in communication device  
The invention relates to a method for reducing feedback caused by electromagnetic interference between an induction coil and an output transducer, a voltage supply or an amplifier or a combination...
7136495 Loudspeaker device  
A loudspeaker device comprising a power amplifier ( 13 ) to which an input signal is delivered via a subtracter ( 6 ), a speaker unit ( 1 ) for reproducing output signals delivered from the power...
7092532 Adaptive feedback canceller  
A system and method for adaptively removing feedback in audio systems and, more particularly, hearing aid systems. The audio system comprises an analysis unit, for receiving an input signal and...
7068798 Method and system for suppressing echoes and noises in environments under variable acoustic and highly feedback conditions  
Method and system for canceling echoes and noises in environments with variable acoustic conditions and high feedback, such as the interior of an automotive vehicle, permitting audible...
7058185 Acoustic echo and noise cancellation  
Stereo echo cancellation is necessary to overcome the objections observed by, for example, teleconferencing, voice controlled video/audio apparatuses, etc. To improve the existing filters, an...
7054451 Sound reinforcement system having an echo suppressor and loudspeaker beamformer  
A sound reinforcement system includes several microphones, a microphone beamformer coupled to the microphones, adaptive echo compensator (EC) coupled to the microphone beamformer for generating an...
7027604 Circuit to prevent acoustic feedback for a cellular speakerphone  
This invention includes a circuit for the prevention of acoustic feedback between an electronic device and an audio accessory. In a preferred embodiment, the circuit prevents audio feedback between...
7024011 Hearing aid with an oscillation detector, and method for detecting feedback in a hearing aid  
In a hearing aid having an oscillation detector and a method for establishing the presence of oscillations in a hearing aid, sinusoidal input signals of the microphone can be detected, and so...
7013015 Method for the operation of a hearing aid device or hearing device system as well as hearing aid device or hearing device system  
For reducing feedback-conditioned oscillations in a hearing aid device, microphone signals of a first microphone and of a distanced, second microphone are compared to one another. When oscillations...
7010129 Method and device for operating voice-controlled systems in motor vehicles  
A device for operating voice-controlled systems, such as communication and/or intercommunication systems in motor vehicles, includes a plurality of microphones and at least one loudspeaker. Voice...
6999594 Method and apparatus for reduction of unwanted feedback  
An RF active deflector is described for use with orthogonal frequency division multiplex signals. An input antenna receives an RF input signal and an output antenna transmits an RF signal on...
6980663 Process and device for compensating for signal loss  
For an especially low loss and echo free communication between several participants in a room ( 1 ) an inventive process for the compensation of losses of a signal(S) along a transmission path...
6931123 Echo cancellation  
An audio conferencing system in which each participant in the conference generates a monaural signal for transmission on an output channel to the other participants, and receives a plurality of...
6895093 Acoustic echo-cancellation system  
A multi-channel acoustic cancellation system 40 with, for example, stereo speakers and a pair of microphones in the transmitting and receiving rooms ( 11 and 21 ) has time varying all-pass...
6885338 Adaptive digital beamformer coefficient processor for satellite signal interference reduction  
Filter coefficients of a beamformer are computed based on a segment of input samples. The segment of input samples is divided into a plurality of blocks of input samples wherein the plurality of...
6810124 Adaptive resonance canceller apparatus  
An adaptive resonance canceller system and method for attenuating narrowband noise signals within an input signal, where the narrowband noise signals may vary significantly in frequency. The sensor...
6683961 Process and apparatus for eliminating loudspeaker interference from microphone signals  
Filter system designed to remove loudspeaker-generated sound signals from a microphone signal, comprising a stereo sampling unit for sampling the interference-bearing microphone signal as well as...
6674863 Microphone-speaker apparatus  
Herein disclosed is a microphone-speaker apparatus, comprising: audio signal dividing means for dividing the audio signal into a plurality of raw component signals each indicative of the raw wave...
6674451 Preventing audio feedback  
A method for enabling a user to proactively reduce the likelihood of audio feedback in an application requiring audio input and output, comprising the steps of: generating a graphical user...
6671379 Ear microphone apparatus and method  
An earset including a housing positionable with respect to an ear of a person, a microphone disposed with respect to the housing for insertion into the ear of a person, the microphone operable to...
6665411 DVE system with instability detection  
A digital voice enhancement, DVE, communication system includes an instability detector detecting an unstable acoustic feedback condition from a loudspeaker to a microphone by sensing a condition...
6625286 Precise amplitude correction circuit  
Amplitude is corrected by subtracting a component signal from a composite signal to produce a remainder signal, correlating the remainder signal with the component signal to produce a product...
6611600 Circuit and method for the adaptive suppression of an acoustic feedback  
A circuit for adaptive suppression of acoustic feedback forms part of a digital hearing aid, comprising a microphone ( 1 ), subtracter ( 3 ), hearing correcting means ( 4 ), receiver ( 6 ), delay...
6608898 Band pass and notch filters for echo reduction with less phase distortion  
A complementary comb filter includes a plurality of band pass filters and a plurality of notch filters, wherein the notch filters have the same center frequencies as the band pass filters or the...
6590974 Howling controller  
A digital signal processing algorithm to cancel howling in a telephone circuit, the telephone circuit being characterized by a receive path and a transmit path in an effective closed loop...
6535609 Cabin communication system  
The present invention teaches a system for improving the clarity of a voice spoken within an enclosed space. The system comprises a first microphone, positioned at a first location, for receiving...
6535111 Wave-discriminating inductive electronic device  
A wave-discriminating inductive electronic device includes a special integrated circuit that is inducible by a proximity feeble electromagnetic signal generated by a general mobile phone during...
6466674 Method and apparatus for eliminating audio feedback  
The present invention is embodied in a method and apparatus for eliminating audio feedback which includes an active microphone coupled to an amplifier which transmits signals received at the active...
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