Coordination of beamformers for noise estimation and noise suppression

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10482899
APP PUB NO 20180033447A1
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15225707

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An audio system has a housing in which are integrated a number of microphones. A programmed processor accesses the microphone signals and produces a number of acoustic pick up beams based groups of microphones, an estimation of voice activity and an estimation of noise characteristics on each beam. Two or more beams including a voice beam that is used to pick up a desired voice and a noise beam that is used to provide information to estimate ambient noise are adaptively selected from among the plurality of beams, based on thresholds for voice separation and thresholds for noise-matching. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

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Andersen, Esge B Campbell, US 46 1060
Atkins, Joshua D Los Angeles, US 47 938
Dusan, Sorin V San Jose, US 46 1233
Iyengar, Vasu Pleasanton, US 48 1981
Pruthi, Tarun Fremont, US 18 290
Ramprashad, Sean A Los Altos, US 55 1589
Theverapperuma, Lalin S Cupertino, US 8 271

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