US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus, methods and computer programs for reducing echo" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,905, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods and computer programs for reducing echo" was invented by Wouter Lanneer (Antwerp, Belgium), Werner Coomans (Zellik, Belgium) and Paschalis Tsiaflakis (Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods and computer programs are provided for reducing echo in microphone signals. The apparatus can be configured to obtain an echo path delay estimate and obtain information indicative of a number of future frames used by an acoustic echo cancellation filter. The apparatus can also be configured to obtain informatio...