Signal processing using spatial filter
AssigneeRasmussen Digital Aps
InventorErik Witthøfft Rasmussen
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AssigneeRasmussen Digital Aps
InventorErik Witthøfft Rasmussen
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A device and method processing microphone signals from at least two microphones is presented. A first beamformer processes the signals from the microphones and provides a first beamformed signal. A power estimator processes the signals from the microphones and the first beamformed signal from the first beamformer in order to generate, in frequency bands, a first statistical estimate of the energy of a first part of an incident sound field. A gain controller processes said first statistical estimate in order to generate in frequency bands a first gain signal, and an audio processor for processing an input to the signal processing device in dependence of said generated first gain signal. The invention provides a new and improved noise reduction device and noise reduction method for use in the signal processing in devices processing acoustic signals, e.g. microphone devices.
Signal processing device for processing microphone signals from at least two microphones (121,122), comprising a combination of
Signal processing device according to any of the previous claims further comprising a multitude of beamformers (34A-D) for processing the signals from the microphones (121,122), and wherein the power estimator (10) processes the output signals from several beamformers in order to generate in frequency bands a statistical estimate of energy.
Signal processing device according to any of the previous claims further comprising an absolute value extracting device (180) for estimating the absolute value of said first beamformed signal and wherein the power estimator (10) analyzes the result of said absolute value extraction in order to produce in frequency bands said first statistical estimate of the energy of said first part of an incident sound field.
Method for processing signals from at least two microphones (121,122) in dependence of a first sound field, said method comprising
Method for processing signals from at least two microphones (121,122) in dependence on a first sound field comprising processing the microphone signals to provide at least two beamformed signals (V1,1, V2,1);
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