Speex dev - Oct 2006 - AEC Patented ?

Hello Jean-Marc Valin and all the Speex-dev team,

Today I have a little question about patents and the AEC.

I' am not a lawyer, but after a deep research in esp@cenet.com,
I found that in August 2003, an AEC called "Double talk insensitive NLMS
algorithm" (DNLMS) have been patented by Gary Q Jin, Gordon J Reesor, and
others (US 6.608.897 B1).

It uses a continuous adaptation step as speex, to avoid adaptatif filter
divergence during double-talk.

Is the computation method really the same as speex AEC (hope not) ?
Somebody who have a deep understanding of Speex AEC algorithm might have a
look at this patent ?

Thank you in advance for your answer,
Sincerly

Jean-Christophe

Don't worry. Not only does the method seems different, but it also only
applies to NLMS, while me EC is using MDF, which is a frequency-domain
echo canceller.

	Jean-Marc

Jean-Christophe.Berge@etu.enseeiht.fr a ?crit :
> Hello Jean-Marc Valin and all the Speex-dev team,
> 
> Today I have a little question about patents and the AEC.
> 
> I' am not a lawyer, but after a deep research in esp@cenet.com,
> I found that in August 2003, an AEC called "Double talk insensitive
NLMS
> algorithm" (DNLMS) have been patented by Gary Q Jin, Gordon J Reesor,
and
> others (US 6.608.897 B1).
> 
> It uses a continuous adaptation step as speex, to avoid adaptatif filter
> divergence during double-talk.
> 
> Is the computation method really the same as speex AEC (hope not) ?
> Somebody who have a deep understanding of Speex AEC algorithm might have a
> look at this patent ?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your answer,
> Sincerly
> 
> Jean-Christophe
> 
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