Enhancing audio using a mobile device
First Claim
1. A method, performed by a mobile device, for obtaining a high quality version of a first audio signal that is generated by a first audio source and is being played back on an audio system that includes a source device and at least one rendering device, the method comprising:
- identifying the first audio signal;
determining whether a quality of the first audio signal is below a quality threshold, said determining comprising;
obtaining a portion of a second audio signal having a higher quality than the first audio signal from a second audio source;
time aligning the obtained portion of the second audio signal and the identified first audio signal; and
calculating a metric based on a difference between the obtained portion of the second audio signal and the identified first audio signal, wherein the metric is calculated in accordance with;
Sq=(H*H+O*O)/(H−
O)*(H−
O)where H is the obtained portion of the second audio signal, O is the identified first audio signal and Sq is the quality of the identified first audio signal; and
in response to determining that the quality of the first audio signal is below the quality threshold, providing a location of the second audio source or a portion of the second audio signal to the source device for streaming thereby.
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Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein enable detection and improvement of the quality of the audio signal using a mobile device by determining the loss in the audio signal and enhancing audio by streaming the remainder portion of audio. Embodiments disclosed herein enable an improvement in the sound quality rendered by rendering devices by emitting an test audio signal from the source device, measuring the test audio signal using microphones, detecting variation in the frequency response, loudness and timing characteristics using impulse responses and correcting for them. Embodiments disclosed herein also compensate for the noise in the acoustic space by determining the reverberation and ambient noise levels and their frequency characteristics and changing the digital filters and volumes of the source signal to compensate for the varying noise levels.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, performed by a mobile device, for obtaining a high quality version of a first audio signal that is generated by a first audio source and is being played back on an audio system that includes a source device and at least one rendering device, the method comprising:
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identifying the first audio signal; determining whether a quality of the first audio signal is below a quality threshold, said determining comprising; obtaining a portion of a second audio signal having a higher quality than the first audio signal from a second audio source; time aligning the obtained portion of the second audio signal and the identified first audio signal; and calculating a metric based on a difference between the obtained portion of the second audio signal and the identified first audio signal, wherein the metric is calculated in accordance with;
Sq=(H*H+O*O)/(H−
O)*(H−
O)where H is the obtained portion of the second audio signal, O is the identified first audio signal and Sq is the quality of the identified first audio signal; and in response to determining that the quality of the first audio signal is below the quality threshold, providing a location of the second audio source or a portion of the second audio signal to the source device for streaming thereby. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A computer program product comprising computer executable program code recorded on a computer readable non-transitory storage medium, said computer executable program code when executed, performing a method for obtaining a high quality version of a first audio signal that is generated by a first audio source and is being played back on an audio system that includes a source device and at least one rendering device, the method comprising:
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identifying the first audio signal; determining whether a quality of the first audio signal is below a quality threshold, wherein said determining comprises; obtaining a portion of a second audio signal having a higher quality than the first audio signal from a second audio source; time aligning the obtained portion of the second audio signal and the identified first audio signal; calculating a metric based on a difference between the obtained portion of the second audio signal and the identified first audio signal, wherein the metric is calculated in accordance with;
Sq=(H*H+O*O)/(H−
O)*(H−
O)where H is the obtained portion of the second audio signal, O is the identified first audio signal and Sq is the quality of the identified first audio signal; and in response to determining that the quality of the first audio signal is below the quality threshold, providing a location of the second audio source or a portion of the second audio signal to the source device. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A mobile device configured to obtain a high quality version of a first audio signal, comprising:
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at least one microphone configured to detect the first audio signal that is generated by a first audio source and is being played back by at least one rendering device coupled to a source device; and a processing unit configured to; identify the first audio signal; determine whether a quality of the first audio signal is below a quality threshold, wherein said processing unit is configured to determine whether the quality of the first audio signal is below a quality threshold by; obtaining a portion of a second audio signal having a higher quality than the first audio signal from a second audio source; time aligning the obtained portion of the second audio signal and the identified first audio signal; calculating a metric based on a difference between the obtained portion of the second audio signal and the identified first audio signal, wherein the metric is calculated in accordance with;
Sq=(H*H+O*O)/(H−
O)*(H−
O)where H is the obtained portion of the second audio signal, O is the identified first audio signal and Sq is the quality of the identified first audio signal; and in response to a determination that the quality of the first audio signal is below the quality threshold, provide a location of the second audio source or a portion of the second audio signal to the source device. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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