HELLOSOFT, INC. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140064476 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ECHO & NOISE CANCELLATION IN VOICE COMMUNICATION - In an example, time and frequency domain speech enhancement is implemented on a platform having a programmable device, such a PC or a smartphone running an OS. Echo cancellation is done first in time domain to cancel a dominant portion of the echo. Residual echo is cancelled jointly with noise reduction during a subsequent frequency domain stage. The time domain block uses a dual band, shorter length Adaptive Filter for faster convergence. Non-linear residual echo is cancelled based on an echo estimate and an error signal from the adaptive filters. A controller locates regions that had residual echo suppressed and which do not have speech and injects comfort noise. The controller can be full-duplex and operate non-linearly. An AGC selectively amplifies the frequency bins, based on the Gain function used by the residual echo and noise canceller. | 03-06-2014 |
20130218558 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF ONSET OF NEAR-END SIGNAL IN AN ECHO CANCELLATION SYSTEM - A method, a system and a computer program product for fast detection of the onset of a near-end signal is provided. An Acoustic Echo Canceller (AEC) attenuates an acoustic echo present in a tele-communication network. The AEC includes an adaptive filter that estimates the acoustic echo and generates an error signal. The error signal is the difference between the acoustic echo and the estimate of acoustic echo plus a near-end signal, if present. The method comprises computing an onset indicator parameter from the error signal and the estimate of acoustic echo. Several other parameters are subsequently calculated by using the onset indicator parameter, the error signal and the estimate of acoustic echo. | 08-22-2013 |