Mobile radiotelephone with handsfree device

• US 5,835,607 A
• Filed: 06/12/1995
• Issued: 11/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Janse, Kees, Knibbler, Charles, Kellermann, Walter, Martin, Rainer
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DUC MINH
• Application Number:
  US08/424,257
• Time in Patent Office: 1,247 Days
• Field of Search: 381/94, 381/71, 381/92, 379/58, 379/59, 379/410, 367/119, 367/121, 367/123, 367/125
• US Class Current: 381/94.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/19 Arrangements of transmitters, receivers, or complete sets to prevent eavesdropping, to attenuate local noise or to prevent undesired transmission; Mouthpieces or receivers specially adapted therefor circuit arrangements for preventing eavesdropping H04M1/68; telephone cabinets E04H1/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/13 Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/005 for combining the signals of two or more microphones specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/407
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/04 for correcting frequency response

Abstract

A mobile radio transceiver comprising a hands-free facility, which hands-free facility combines at least two acoustic input signals to produce an output signal, and an adaptive filter is provided for filtering the combined output signal. To achieve an improved speech quality, a high-pass filter is provided for filtering the acoustic input signals.

Claims

1. A mobile radio transceiver with a hands-free facility, said hands-free facility comprising:

means for combining at least two acoustic input signals and providing a combined output signal, said means for combining comprising a delay equalization circuit for equalizing delays between the input signals, said delay equalization circuit comprising plausibility examining means for examining whether a defined distance and/or direction from a starting point of the input signals to a speaker exceeds a predeterminable limit value;

an adaptive filter for filtering the combined output signal of said combining means; and

means for high-pass filtering each of the acoustic input signals.

2. The mobile radio transceiver as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an arrangement for computing parameter of said adaptive filter from an autocorrelation function and a cross-correlation function of the input signals, wherein the autocorrelation function and/or cross-correlation function are averaged with time.

3. The mobile radio transceiver as claimed in claim 2, further wherein for computing the cross-correlation function the autocorrelation function is scaled and the cross-correlation function is affected by the autocorrelation function.

4. The mobile radio transceiver as claimed in claim 3, further comprising switching means for not using the adaptive filter when there is a coefficient overflow during a computation of the autocorrelation function and/or the cross-correlation function.

5. The mobile radio transceiver as claimed in claim 4, wherein the adaptive filter is a Wiener filter.

6. A hands-free facility comprising:

means for combining at least two acoustic input signals and providing a combined output signal, said means for combining comprising a delay equalization circuit for equalizing delays between the input signals, said delay equalization circuit comprising plausibility examining means for examining whether a defined distance and/or direction from a starting point of the input signals to a speaker exceeds a predeterminable limit value;

an adaptive filter for filtering the combined output signal of said combining means;

a high-pass filter for filtering the acoustic input signals; and

a further high-pass filter for filtering an output signal of said adaptive filter, the limit frequency of the further high-pass filter lying in the range from 200to 400 Hz.

7. The hands-free facility as claimed in claim 6, further comprising an arrangement for computing parameters of said adaptive filter from an autocorrelation function and a cross-correlation function of the input signals, wherein the autocorrelation function and/or crosscorrelation function are averaged with time.

8. The hands-free facility as claimed in claim 7, further wherein for computing the cross-correlation function the autocorrelation function is scaled and the crosscorrelation function is affected by the autocorrelation function.

9. The hands-free facility as claimed in claim 8, further comprising switching means for not using the adaptive filter when there is a coefficient overflow during a computation of the autocorrelation function and/or the cross-correlation function.

10. The hands-free facility as claimed in claim 9, wherein the adaptive filter is a Wiener filter.