Noise reduction
    1.
    发明授权
    Noise reduction 有权
    降噪

    公开(公告)号:US09142221B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-09-22

    申请号:US12098570

    申请日:2008-04-07

    摘要: A signal processor for estimating noise power in an audio signal includes a filter unit for generating a series of power values, each power value representing the power in the audio signal at a respective one of a plurality of frequency bands; a signal classification unit for analysing successive portions of the audio signal to assess whether each portion contains features characteristic of speech, and for classifying each portion in dependence on that analysis; a correction unit for estimating a minimum power value in a time-limited part of the audio signal, estimating the total noise power in that part of the audio signal and forming a correction factor dependent on the ratio of the minimum power value to the estimated total noise power, the correction unit being configured to estimate the minimum power value and the total noise power over only those portions of the time-limited part of the signal that are classified by the signal classification unit as being less characteristic of speech; and a noise estimation unit for estimating noise in the audio signal in dependence on the power values output by the filter unit and the correction factor formed by the correction unit.

    摘要翻译: 用于估计音频信号中的噪声功率的信号处理器包括用于产生一系列功率值的滤波器单元,每个功率值表示在多个频带中的相应一个频带中的音频信号中的功率; 信号分类单元,用于分析音频信号的连续部分,以评估每个部分是否包含语音特征,并且根据该分析对每个部分进行分类; 校正单元,用于估计音频信号的时间有限的部分中的最小功率值,估计该部分音频信号中的总噪声功率,并形成依赖于最小功率值与估计总和的比率的校正因子 噪声功率,所述校正单元被配置为仅将所述信号分类单元分类的所述信号的所述时间有限部分的那些部分估计为较小的语音特性,估计所述最小功率值和所述总噪声功率; 以及噪声估计单元,用于根据由滤波器单元输出的功率值和由校正单元形成的校正因子来估计音频信号中的噪声。

    Noise Reduction
    2.
    发明申请
    Noise Reduction 有权
    降噪

    公开(公告)号:US20090254340A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-08

    申请号:US12098570

    申请日:2008-04-07

    IPC分类号: G10L21/02

    摘要: A signal processor for estimating noise power in an audio signal includes a filter unit for generating a series of power values, each power value representing the power in the audio signal at a respective one of a plurality of frequency bands; a signal classification unit for analysing successive portions of the audio signal to assess whether each portion contains features characteristic of speech, and for classifying each portion in dependence on that analysis; a correction unit for estimating a minimum power value in a time-limited part of the audio signal, estimating the total noise power in that part of the audio signal and forming a correction factor dependent on the ratio of the minimum power value to the estimated total noise power, the correction unit being configured to estimate the minimum power value and the total noise power over only those portions of the time-limited part of the signal that are classified by the signal classification unit as being less characteristic of speech; and a noise estimation unit for estimating noise in the audio signal in dependence on the power values output by the filter unit and the correction factor formed by the correction unit.

    摘要翻译: 用于估计音频信号中的噪声功率的信号处理器包括用于产生一系列功率值的滤波器单元,每个功率值表示在多个频带中的相应一个频带中的音频信号中的功率; 信号分类单元,用于分析音频信号的连续部分,以评估每个部分是否包含语音特征,并且根据该分析对每个部分进行分类; 校正单元,用于估计音频信号的时间有限的部分中的最小功率值,估计该部分音频信号中的总噪声功率,并形成依赖于最小功率值与估计总和的比率的校正因子 噪声功率,所述校正单元被配置为仅将所述信号分类单元分类的所述信号的所述时间有限部分的那些部分估计为较小的语音特性,估计所述最小功率值和所述总噪声功率; 以及噪声估计单元,用于根据由滤波器单元输出的功率值和由校正单元形成的校正因子来估计音频信号中的噪声。

    Portable music player
    3.
    发明授权
    Portable music player 有权
    便携式音乐播放器

    公开(公告)号:US08865991B1

    公开(公告)日:2014-10-21

    申请号:US12316670

    申请日:2008-12-15

    IPC分类号: G10H1/36

    摘要: A portable music player for the playback of a digital audio file comprises a memory for storing a plurality of digital audio files; an audio output; a control for setting a desired change in pitch or tempo; and a digital signal processor configured to process a digital audio file and recover an audio signal therefrom, perceptibly alter one of the pitch and the tempo of the audio signal in response to the desired change in pitch or tempo without perceptibly altering the other of the pitch and tempo, and output the altered audio signal to the audio output.

    摘要翻译: 用于播放数字音频文件的便携式音乐播放器包括用于存储多个数字音频文件的存储器; 音频输出; 用于设定所需音调或速度变化的控制; 以及数字信号处理器,被配置为处理数字音频文件并从其中恢复音频信号,可以响应于所需的音调或节奏变化而明显地改变音频信号的音调和速度之一,而无需明显地改变音调的另一个 和速度,并将改变的音频信号输出到音频输出。

    Speech Intelligibility
    4.
    发明申请
    Speech Intelligibility 审中-公开
    语音清晰度

    公开(公告)号:US20110125494A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-05-26

    申请号:US12623933

    申请日:2009-11-23

    IPC分类号: G10L21/02

    摘要: The perceived quality of a speech signal output from a user apparatus is improved by storing ambient noise profiles each indicating a model power distribution of a respective ambient noise type as a function of frequency; the ambient noise profile at the user apparatus is measured, the measured ambient noise profile is correlated with each of the stored ambient noise profiles, the stored ambient noise profile is selected with which the measured ambient noise profile is most highly correlated, and the speech signal is manipulated in dependence on which of the stored ambient noise profiles is selected, so as to form an improved speech signal.

    摘要翻译: 通过存储各自指示作为频率的函数的相应环境噪声类型的模型功率分布的环境噪声分布来改善从用户装置输出的语音信号的感知质量; 测量用户装置处的环境噪声分布,测量的环境噪声分布与每个存储的环境噪声分布相关联,选择存储的环境噪声分布,测量的环境噪声分布与其最高度相关,并且语音信号 根据所选择的存储的环境噪声分布中的哪一个被操纵,以便形成改进的语音信号。

    Acoustic Echo Cancellation
    5.
    发明申请
    Acoustic Echo Cancellation 失效
    声回波消除

    公开(公告)号:US20090225997A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-09-10

    申请号:US12103728

    申请日:2008-04-16

    IPC分类号: H04B3/20

    摘要: An audio processing device for reducing the effect on a first signal of echo from a second signal, the device comprising: an echo reduction processor for processing the first signal to reduce echo in it, the echo reduction unit having: a first mode of operation for reducing echo of a first function from the first signal; and a second mode of operation for reducing echo of a second function from the first signal, the second function being more complex than the first function and the echo reduction processor being such as to consume more power in the second mode of operation than in the first mode of operation; and an echo reduction controller for controlling the echo reduction processor to operate in a selected one of the first mode of operation and the second mode of operation.

    摘要翻译: 一种音频处理装置,用于减少对来自第二信号的第一回波信号的影响,该装置包括:回波减少处理器,用于处理第一信号以减少其中的回波,回波减少单元具有:第一操作模式, 从第一信号减少第一功能的回波; 以及用于从所述第一信号减少第二功能的回波的第二操作模式,所述第二功能比所述第一功能更复杂,并且回波减少处理器在第二操作模式中比在第一功能中消耗更多的功率 操作模式; 以及回波降低控制器,用于控制回波减少处理器在所选择的第一操作模式和第二操作模式中操作。

    Audio usage detection
    6.
    发明授权
    Audio usage detection 有权
    音频使用检测

    公开(公告)号:US08280449B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-02

    申请号:US12238624

    申请日:2008-09-26

    IPC分类号: H04M1/00 H04B1/38

    CPC分类号: H04M1/6091 H04M9/082

    摘要: An audio handling device comprising: a source of audio data; a microphone; a loudspeaker; a transmitter for transmitting audio data; modification means for modifying the audio data; and a control unit for controlling the operation of the device, the control unit being capable of receiving signals from the microphone and configuring the conveying of audio data from the source to one or both of the loudspeaker and the transmitter; the control unit being capable of configuring the device such that during at least a probing period the modification means modifies audio data from the source and the modified audio data is transmitted by the transmitter, and being arranged to select in dependence on data dependent on signals received from the microphone whether to apply audio data from the source to the loudspeaker.

    摘要翻译: 一种音频处理装置,包括:音频数据源; 麦克风 一个扬声器 用于发送音频数据的发射机; 用于修改音频数据的修改装置; 以及控制单元,用于控制设备的操作,所述控制单元能够接收来自所述麦克风的信号并且配置音频数据从所述扬声器和所述发射机中的一个或两者传送; 所述控制单元能够配置所述设备,使得在至少一个探测周期期间,所述修改装置修改来自所述源的音频数据,并且所述修改的音频数据由所述发射机发送,并且被布置为根据接收到的信号的数据进行选择 是否将来自源的音频数据应用于扬声器。

    Audio processing device and method for reducing echo from a second signal in a first signal
    7.
    发明授权
    Audio processing device and method for reducing echo from a second signal in a first signal 失效
    一种用于在第一信号中减少来自第二信号的回波的音频处理装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08705758B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-22

    申请号:US12103728

    申请日:2008-04-16

    IPC分类号: H04B3/20 H04M9/08

    摘要: An audio processing device for reducing the effect on a first signal of echo from a second signal, the device comprising: an echo reduction processor for processing the first signal to reduce echo in it, the echo reduction unit having: a first mode of operation for reducing echo of a first function from the first signal; and a second mode of operation for reducing echo of a second function from the first signal, the second function being more complex than the first function and the echo reduction processor being such as to consume more power in the second mode of operation than in the first mode of operation; and an echo reduction controller for controlling the echo reduction processor to operate in a selected one of the first mode of operation and the second mode of operation.

    摘要翻译: 一种音频处理装置,用于减少对来自第二信号的第一回波信号的影响,该装置包括:回波减少处理器,用于处理第一信号以减少其中的回波,回波减少单元具有:第一操作模式, 从第一信号减少第一功能的回波; 以及用于从所述第一信号减少第二功能的回波的第二操作模式,所述第二功能比所述第一功能更复杂,并且回波减少处理器在第二操作模式中比在第一功能中消耗更多的功率 操作模式; 以及回波降低控制器,用于控制回波减少处理器在所选择的第一操作模式和第二操作模式中操作。

    Two microphone noise reduction system
    8.
    发明授权
    Two microphone noise reduction system 有权
    两个麦克风降噪系统

    公开(公告)号:US08131541B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-03-06

    申请号:US12110182

    申请日:2008-04-25

    IPC分类号: G10L19/00

    摘要: A two microphone noise reduction system is described. In an embodiment, input signals from each of the microphones are divided into subbands and each subband is then filtered independently to separate noise and desired signals and to suppress non-stationary and stationary noise. Filtering methods used include adaptive decorrelation filtering. A post-processing module using adaptive noise cancellation like filtering algorithms may be used to further suppress stationary and non-stationary noise in the output signals from the adaptive decorrelation filtering and a single microphone noise reduction algorithm may be used to further provide optimal stationary noise reduction performance of the system.

    摘要翻译: 描述了两个麦克风降噪系统。 在一个实施例中,来自每个麦克风的输入信号被分成子带,然后每个子带被独立地滤波以分离噪声和期望的信号并且抑制非平稳和平稳的噪声。 使用的过滤方法包括自适应去相关过滤。 可以使用使用诸如滤波算法的自适应噪声消除的后处理模块来进一步抑制来自自适应去相关滤波的输出信号中的静止和非平稳噪声,并且可以使用单个麦克风噪声降低算法来进一步提供最佳的固定噪声降低 系统的性能。

    Speech Intelligibility
    9.
    发明申请
    Speech Intelligibility 失效
    语音清晰度

    公开(公告)号:US20110125492A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-05-26

    申请号:US12623896

    申请日:2009-11-23

    CPC分类号: G10L21/0272 G10L21/0364

    摘要: The perceived quality of a narrowband speech signal truncated from a wideband speech signal is improved by generating in a third frequency band third speech components matching first speech components in a first frequency band of the narrowband signal, and generating in a fourth frequency band fourth speech components matching second speech components in a second frequency band of the narrowband signal. A first gain factor is applied to the third speech components to generate adjusted third speech components, and a second gain factor is applied to the fourth speech components to generate adjusted fourth speech components, the gain factors being selected such that the ratios of the average powers of the adjusted third and fourth speech components to the average power of the first speech components are predetermined values.

    摘要翻译: 通过在第三频带中产生与窄带信号的第一频带中的第一语音分量相匹配的第三语音分量并在第四频带中生成第四语音分量来改善从宽带语音信号中截取的窄带语音信号的感知质量 在所述窄带信号的第二频带中匹配第二语音分量。 将第一增益因子应用于第三语音分量以产生经调整的第三语音分量,并且将第二增益因子应用于第四语音分量以产生经调整的第四语音分量,所述增益因子被选择为使得平均功率 被调整的第三和第四语音分量相对于第一语音分量的平均功率是预定值。

    Speech Intelligibility
    10.
    发明申请
    Speech Intelligibility 有权
    语音清晰度

    公开(公告)号:US20110125491A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-05-26

    申请号:US12623883

    申请日:2009-11-23

    IPC分类号: G10L21/00 G10L11/04 G10L19/14

    CPC分类号: G10L21/0364

    摘要: The perceived quality of a speech signal is improved by estimating the average power of first and second signal components and applying a first gain factor to the second signal components to generate adjusted second signal components. The first gain factor is selected such that on application of the first gain factor to the second signal components, the ratio of the average power of the first signal components to the average power of the adjusted second signal components would be a first predetermined value, the first predetermined value being such as to inhibit perceptual distortion of the improved speech signal.

    摘要翻译: 通过估计第一和第二信号分量的平均功率并将第一增益因子应用于第二信号分量来产生调整后的第二信号分量来提高语音信号的感知质量。 选择第一增益因子,使得在将第一增益因子应用于第二信号分量时,第一信号分量的平均功率与调整的第二信号分量的平均功率的比值将是第一预定值, 第一预定值是为了抑制改进的语音信号的感知失真。