Patent attributes
A universal reconfigurable system and method are provided for reducing nonlinear echo and residual echo, and for echo leakage prevention in various time-varying and complex environments is proposed in this invention. According to one embodiment an echo cancellation system includes (1) an adaptive linear filter implemented in either time-domain or frequency-domain; (2) a nonlinear echo suppression; (3) echo leakage prevention; (4) direct current (DC), low frequency residual echo and noise reduction; (5) time-domain nonlinear processor (NLP) to reduce the residual echo; and (6) frequency-domain NLP to further reduce the residual echo. The echo cancellation system is universally applicable to acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and/or electrical echo cancellation applications. In terms of AEC, this invention is reconfigurable for one or more microphones and/or one or more reference channels. The numbers of microphones and reference channels are user configurable.
