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US 6,856,653 B1Granted
Digital signal sub-band separating/combining apparatus achieving band-separation and band-combining filtering processing with reduced amount of group delay
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsShohei Taniguchi, Masayuki Ito, Yutaka Banba
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Abstract
An apparatus having a band-separating filter bank for separating a digital signal into a plurality of sub-band signals, to be processed or transmitted, and a band-combining filter bank for subsequently combining the resultant sub-band signals into a single digital signal, wherein each of the band-separating filter bank and band-combining filter bank incorporates a FIR low pass filter having an asymmetric impulse response, as the prototype filter of the filter bank. A significant reduction can thereby be achieved in the amount of overall group delay that results from the processing performed by these filter banks.
Claims2
An echo canceller apparatus comprising:
- loudspeaker means for audibly reproducing a first input digital audio signal which is transmitted from a remote location;
- microphone means for generating a second input digital audio signal in response to incident sound waves;
- first sub-band separating means for converting said first input digital audio signal to a first plurality of sub-band signals;
- second sub-band separating means for converting said second input digital audio signal to a second plurality of sub-band signals;
- a plurality of adaptive filters for controllably filtering said first plurality of sub-band signals to obtain corresponding modified sub-band signals;
- means for deriving respective differences between said modified sub-band signals and corresponding ones of said second sub-band signals, as respective error signals;
- filter coefficient updating means for utilizing values of said error signals to modify filter coefficients of respective ones of said adaptive filters;
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- sub-band combining means for combining said error signals into a single digital audio signal, to be transmitted to said remote location, wherein;
- each of said first and second sub-band separating means comprises a digital signal sub-band separating apparatus including:
- a plurality of filters corresponding to respective frequency bands, for separating said input digital audio signal into said plurality of sub-band signals;
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- decimation means for applying digital signal sample decimation to each of said sub-band signals, wherein;
- said digital signal sub-band separating apparatus comprises, as a prototype filter of said plurality of filters, a FIR (finite impulse response) low-pass filter which is configured to have an asymmetric impulse response.
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An echo canceller apparatus comprising:
- loudspeaker means for audibly reproducing a first input digital audio signal which is transmitted from a remote location;
- microphone means for generating a second input digital audio signal in response to incident sound waves;
- first sub-band separating means for converting said first input digital audio signal to a first plurality of sub-band signals;
- second sub-band separating means for converting said second input digital audio signal to a second plurality of sub-band signals;
- a plurality of adaptive filters for controllably filtering said first plurality of sub-band signals to obtain corresponding modified sub-band signals;
- means for deriving respective differences between said modified sub-band signals and corresponding ones of said second sub-band signals, as respective error signals;
- filter coefficient updating means for utilizing values of said error signals to modify filter coefficients of respective ones of said adaptive filters;
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- sub-band combining means for combining said error signals into a single digital audio signal, to be transmitted to said remote location, wherein;
- said sub-band combining means comprises a digital signal sub-band combining apparatus including:
- a plurality of filters corresponding to respective frequency bands, for filtering corresponding ones of said plurality of error signals supplied thereto and outputting a plurality of filtered output signals;
- interpolation means for applying digital signal sample interpolation to corresponding ones of said plurality of filtered output signals;
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- means for additively combining respective outputs of said interpolation means to form said single digital audio signal, wherein;
- said apparatus comprises, as a prototype filter of said plurality of filters, a FIR (finite impulse response) low-pass filter which is configured to have an asymmetric impulse response.
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