Systems and methods for enhancing audio quality of FM receivers

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9130643
APP PUB NO 20130195163A1
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13362244

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Systems and methods are described for enhancing the audio quality of an FM receiver. In embodiments described herein, quadrature L−R demodulation is applied to a composite baseband signal output by an FM demodulator to obtain an L−R noise signal. A channel quality measure is calculated based on the L−R noise signal and is used to control whether a pop suppression technique is applied to an L+R signal obtained from the composite baseband signal to detect and remove noise pulses therefrom. The channel quality measure and the L−R noise signal are also leveraged to perform single-channel noise suppression in the frequency domain on an L−R signal obtained from the composite baseband signal and on the L+R signal. The channel quality measure is also used to control the application of a fast fading compensation process that replaces noisy segments of the L−R and L+R signal with replacement waveforms generated via waveform extrapolation.

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AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LIMITED1 YISHUN AVENUE 7 SINGAPORE 768923

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Baker, Thomas F Dana Point, US 3 12
Chen, Juin-Hwey Irvine, US 108 3513
Garrett, David C Tustin, US 10 58
McCarthy, Evan S Irvine, US 7 101
Thyssen, Jes San Juan Capistrano, US 94 3071
Wihardja, Walter J Tustin, US 2 6

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