US Patent Issued to Synaptics on Feb. 24 for "Single-microphone acoustic echo and noise suppression" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,176, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Single-microphone acoustic echo and noise suppression" was invented by Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari (Irvine, Calif.), Atabak Pouya (Irvine, Calif.) and Hong Qiu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for audio signal processing. The present implementations more specifically relate to speech enhancement techniques for separating microphone signals into speech, echo, and noise signals. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may include a delay estimator and an acoustic echo and noise (AEN) decoupling ...