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Adaptive removal of disturbance in TDMA acoustic peripheral devices
Assignee: Nokia Oyj
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Filing: 1997-12-16
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Granted: 2001-07-31
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Expires: 2017-12-16
Abstract
Abstract Methods and apparatus are disclosed for suppressing transmitter burst mode disturbances in an audio band. The method and apparatus detects those signal frames wherein the input signal contains signal energy comprised substantially of only the disturbance signal; characterizes the disturbance signal in the detected signal frames to obtain a disturbance signal correction; and compensates the input signal, only for those signal frames where a transmission burst exists, using the obtained disturbance signal correction so as to remove the disturbance signal from those signal frames that contain voice, and also from certain signal frames that do not contain voice. Frequency hopping embodiments of disturbance removing circuitry are also disclosed.
Inventors
- 👤 Pertti Alapuranen
- 👤 Ingo Kuhn
- 👤 Janne Paksuniemi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-06 13:51
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04B; H04B15/00; H04B15/02; H04B2215/00; H04B2215/061
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
116 words
A method for removing a disturbance signal from an input signal that is induced by a transmitter that transmits bursts of energy using a frequency hopping technique, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of allocatable buffers each for storing information concerning a particular frequency used during the frequency hopping; computing a normalized summed square difference for each buffer to yield normalized residuals R n ; comparing each normalized residual R n against an adaptive threshold; and when all R n are larger than the adaptive threshold, allocating a new buffer; else, updating a buffer where R n is found to be the smallest and less than the adaptive threshold; and incrementing an associated buffer counter.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
116 words
A method for removing a disturbance signal from an input signal that is induced by a transmitter that transmits bursts of energy using a frequency hopping technique, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of allocatable buffers each for storing information concerning a particular frequency used during the frequency hopping; computing a normalized summed square difference for each buffer to yield normalized residuals R n ; comparing each normalized residual R n against an adaptive threshold; and when all R n are larger than the adaptive threshold, allocating a new buffer; else, updating a buffer where R n is found to be the smallest and less than the adaptive threshold; and incrementing an associated buffer counter.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
40 words
A method as set forth in claim 1 , and further comprising the steps of: periodically testing the buffer counters, and if a buffer counter is equal to or less than a threshold value, freeing the associated buffer for use.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
151 words
A method for removing a disturbance signal from an input signal that is induced by a transmitter that transmits bursts of energy using a frequency hopping technique, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of allocatable buffers each for storing information concerning a particular frequency used during the frequency hopping; computing a normalized summed square difference for each buffer to yield normalized residuals R n ; comparing each normalized residual R n against an adaptive threshold; and when all R n are larger than the adaptive threshold, allocating a new buffer; else, updating a buffer where R n is found to be the smallest and less than the adaptive threshold; and incrementing an associated buffer counter, wherein the adaptive threshold has a value that is determined using a sliding median filter that is updated on every occurrence of a residual R n being found to be smaller than the adaptive threshold.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
151 words
A method for removing a disturbance signal from an input signal that is induced by a transmitter that transmits bursts of energy using a frequency hopping technique, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of allocatable buffers each for storing information concerning a particular frequency used during the frequency hopping; computing a normalized summed square difference for each buffer to yield normalized residuals R n ; comparing each normalized residual R n against an adaptive threshold; and when all R n are larger than the adaptive threshold, allocating a new buffer; else, updating a buffer where R n is found to be the smallest and less than the adaptive threshold; and incrementing an associated buffer counter, wherein the adaptive threshold has a value that is determined using a sliding median filter that is updated on every occurrence of a residual R n being found to be smaller than the adaptive threshold.
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