Granted Patent B2

US 10,056,092 · App. 15/508,140 · Granted Aug 21, 2018

Abstract

Claims (42)

1. A method of reducing a residual interference in an output signal from an adaptive interference cancellation (AIC) module that operates on an input signal and a reference signal, the output signal comprising a corrected input signal superposed with the residual interference, the method comprising:

by a power spectral density (PSD) module, forming a time series of PSD values for the reference signal;

by a real-valued finite impulse response (FIR) forming an AIC filter misalignment estimate signal by operating on the time series of PSD values;

by a reverberation filter, forming a late reverberation estimate signal using an exponential decay over time using the time series of PSD values; and

subtracting the AIC filter misalignment estimate signal and the late reverberation estimate signal from the AIC module output signal.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the reverberation filter comprises an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the FIR filter has a number of taps.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the IIR filter includes a delay element with delay proportional to the number of taps.

5. The method according to claim 3 , further including using the same weight for all taps.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further including estimating a residual interference using gradient descent by the FIR filter, the reverberation filter, or both.

7. The method according to claim 6 , further including receiving, by the reverberation filter as an input, a non-estimated reverberation signal.

8. The method according to claim 6 , further including the gradient descent using a logarithmic cost function.

9. The method according to claim 1 , further including:

determining a parameter A in the reverberation filter for a strength of a late reverberation;

determining a parameter B in the reverberation filter for an exponential decay of the late reverberation in relation to reverberation time of an enclosure; and

adapting a parameter C, in the FIR filter for scaling the AIC filter misalignment estimate signal, as a function of a time series of PSD values for the output signal and a time series of PSD values for the late reverberation estimate signal.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein determining the parameters A and B includes fitting a substantially straight line to the logarithm of the magnitude of coefficients in a filter of the AIC module.

11. The method according to claim 1 , further including controlling a step size of the AIC module.

12. The method according to claim 11 , further including dynamically adjusting a length of the FIR filter corresponding to a reverberation time and/or the ratio of early and late residual interference.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the reference signal comprises a loudspeaker signal and the residual interference PSD estimate is applied for residual echo suppression.

14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the reference signal is a microphone signal and the second component corresponding to the PSD of the late reverberation is used for dereverberation.

15. An article, comprising a non-transitory storage medium having stored instructions that enable a machine to perform a method of reducing a residual interference in an output signal from an adaptive interference cancellation (AIC) module that operates on an input signal and a reference signal, the output signal comprising a corrected input signal superposed with the residual interference, the method comprising;

by a power spectral density (PSD) module, forming a time series of PSD values for the reference signal;

by a real-valued finite impulse response (FIR) filter, forming an AIC filter misalignment estimate signal by operating on the time series of PSD values;

by a reverberation filter, forming a late reverberation estimate signal using an exponential decay over time as a function of the time series of PSD values; and

subtracting the AIC filter misalignment estimate signal and the late reverberation estimate signal from the AIC module output signal.

16. The article according to claim 15 , wherein the reverberation filter comprises an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter.

17. A system, comprising:

an adaptive interference cancellation (AIC) module to receive an input signal and a reference signal and generate an AIC output signal comprising a corrected input signal superposed with a residual interference;

a first power spectral density (PSD) module to receive the AIC output signal and generate a first PSD output signal;

a second PSD module to receive the reference signal and generate a second PSD output signal;

a real-valued finite impulse response (FIR) filter to receive the second PSD output signal and form an AIC filter misalignment estimate output;

a reverberation filter to receive the second PSD output signal and form a late reverberation estimate output; and

a residual echo suppression module to process the AIC filter misalignment estimate output, the late reverberation estimate output, and the AIC output.

18. A system, comprising:

an adaptive interference cancellation (AIC) module to receive an input signal and a reference signal and generate an AIC output signal comprising a corrected input signal superposed with a residual interference;

a first power spectral density (PSD) module to receive the AIC output signal and generate a first PSD output signal;

a second PSD module to receive the reference signal and generate a second PSD output signal;

a real-valued finite impulse response (FIR) filter to receive the second PSD output signal and form an AIC filter misalignment estimate output;

a reverberation filter to receive the second PSD output signal and form a late reverberation estimate output;

a beamforming module to receive the input signal and the reference signal and generate a beamforming output signal; and

a dereverberation module to process the late reverberation estimate output and the beamforming output, wherein the AIC filter misalignment estimate output is not processed by the dereverberation module.

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