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Acoustic feedback correction

CA 2249283 C · Owner: Ensor, Jonathan Edward · Inventors: Lewis, Alwyn Vaughan; Ensor, Jonathan Edward

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In a video conference facility, an echo cancelling device is provided which comprises an adaptive finite impulse response filter (38) operable to sample the input signal to a loudspeaker (30) and to model on the basis of that , signal, the signal fed back to a microphone (32). The echo cancelling device further comprises a combiner (36) for subtracting the model feedback signal from the microphone output signal to provide a corrected microphone output signal, and a microprocessor (40) programmed to read the corrected and uncorrected microphone output signal and to compute updates to the weights of the filter (38), the computation including a multiplication by a variable scaling …

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  • Filed April 2, 1997 and granted June 3, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 2, 2017.
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FiledApril 2, 1997
GrantedJune 3, 2003
Term endedApril 2, 2017
Patent numberCA 2249283 C
Classification (IPC)H04R3/02 +2 more

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