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Speech communication apparatus having an echo canceler
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Inventors: Umemoto, Yuji; Otsuka, Koki;
Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP)
Primary Examiner: Tung; Kee M.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
The invention is directed to an apparatus for speech communication that includes an echo canceler (3) for canceling an acoustic echo component input from a hands-free speech loudspeaker (13) to a microphone (14). The echo canceler (30) is provided with a volume control (36) for variably controlling the volume of a received speech signal, an amplitude limiter (35) for limiting the amplitude of an output signal from the volume control (36), an echo canceler (32, 32) for estimating a pseudo echo signal from an output from the amplitude limiter and subtracting the estimated pseudo echo signal from the transmitted speech signal input from the microphone (14), and a nonlinear filter (34) for processing an output from the echo canceler, thereby limiting the amplitude level of the received speech signal to a predetermined level or less. Accordingly, even if a received speech signal having a high received speech signal level is input to the echo canceler, the received speech is not distorted, and an acoustic echo can be sufficiently canceled by the echo canceler. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION We claim: 1.
A speech communication apparatus, comprising: transceiver means for transmitting and receiving a speech signal; loudspeaker means for outputting a speech signal received by said transceiver means; microphone means for inputting a speech signal to be transmitted; means, connected between said loudspeaker means and said transceiver means and between said microphone means and said transceiver means, for canceling an acoustic echo generated upon inputting the received speech signal output from said loudspeaker means to said microphone means; means for limiting, to a predetermined value, an amplitude of the received speech signal to means for limiting, to a predetermined value, an amplitude of the received speech signal to be input to said echo canceling means, when said amplitude exceeds the predetermined value; means, connected to an output of said amplitude limiting means, for decreasing/increasing an amplitude of the received speech signal output from said amplitude limiting means: and means for decreasing/increasing the predetermined limit value in association with an increase/decrease of the amplitude of the received speech signal by said amplitude decreasing/increasing means.
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The speech communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said echo canceling means comprises: arithmetic operation means for arithmetically operating an input signal to said echo canceling means using a coefficient for simulating an acoustic characteristic of an echo path from said loudspeaker means to said microphone means, and generating a pseudo echo signal; subtracting means for obtaining a difference between the speech signal input from said microphone means and an output of said arithmetic operation means; and means for adaptively changing the coefficient of said arithmetic operation means so that an output of said subtracting means becomes zero.
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The speech communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said arithmetic operation means comprises: a plurality of delay circuits for sequentially delaying an input signal to said echo canceling means; a plurality of amplifiers for amplifying outputs of said delay circuits in accordance with the coefficients; and an adder for adding outputs of said amplifiers
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