Terminal, and operation method for terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10735869-B2
Application number	US-201615750739-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 3, 2016
Priority date	Aug 6, 2015
Publication date	Aug 4, 2020
Grant date	Aug 4, 2020

Abstract

An operation method of a terminal may include: executing a voice call service between the terminal and at least one terminal; determining at least one short-range terminal existing within a preset range from among the at least one terminal, based on location information of the terminal; detecting a howling frequency band in which howling occurs between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal from among a plurality of frequency bands in which the voice call service is performed, based on information of the plurality of frequency bands; and removing the howling by adjusting a gain of the howling frequency band.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An operation method of a terminal, the operation method comprising:
executing a voice call service between the terminal and at least one terminal;
determining at least one short-range terminal existing within a preset range from among the at least one terminal, based on location information of the terminal;
detecting a howling frequency band in which howling occurs between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal from among a plurality of frequency bands in which the voice call service is performed, based on information of the plurality of frequency bands; and
removing the howling by adjusting a gain of the howling frequency band.

2. The operation method of claim 1 , wherein the information of the plurality of frequency bands comprises at least one from among a peak value and an energy value of each of the plurality of frequency bands.

3. The operation method of claim 2 , wherein the detecting of the howling frequency band in which the howling occurs between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal from among the plurality of frequency bands in which the voice call service is performed, based on the information of the plurality of frequency bands comprises:
obtaining an energy change rate of each of the plurality of frequency bands based on input voice information of the at least one short-range terminal and output voice information of the terminal; and
detecting the howling frequency band, based on the energy change rate of each of the plurality of frequency bands.

4. The operation method of claim 3 , wherein the detecting of the howling frequency based, based on the energy change rate of each of the plurality of frequency bands comprises, when an energy change rate of a predetermined frequency band from among the plurality of frequency bands exceeds a preset change rate, detecting the predetermined frequency band as the howling frequency band.

5. The operation method of claim 3 , further comprising obtaining voice loop cycle information of the voice call service,
wherein the detecting of the howling frequency band, based on the energy change rate of each of the plurality of frequency bands comprises detecting a predetermined frequency band whose energy change rate is periodically changed according to the voice loop cycle information from among the plurality of frequency bands as the howling frequency band, based on the voice loop cycle information.

6. The operation method of claim 1 , wherein the removing of the howling by adjusting the gain of the howling frequency band comprises adjusting the gain of the howling frequency band, based on at least one from among the information of the plurality of frequency bands, voice loop cycle information of the voice call service, a distance between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal, and a number of the at least one short-range terminal.

7. The operation method of claim 6 , wherein the adjusting of the gain of the howling frequency band, based on the distance between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal comprises:
determining a filter coefficient so that the gain of the howling frequency band decreases as the distance between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal decreases; and
determining the filter coefficient so that the gain of the howling frequency band increases as the distance between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal increases.

8. The operation method of claim 1 , further comprising sharing, with the at least one short-range terminal, at least one from among the information of the plurality of frequency bands, a distance between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal, voice call delay time information of the voice call service, and volume information of the terminal.

9. The operation method of claim 8 , wherein the voice call delay time information is obtained based on a voice delay by the terminal and a network formed between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal.

10. The operation method of claim 1 , wherein the removing of the howling by adjusting the gain of the howling frequency band in which the howling occurs is performed by a notch filter of the terminal.

11. A terminal comprising:
a controller configured to execute a voice call service between the terminal and at least one terminal, determine at least one short-range terminal existing within a preset range from among the at least one terminal, based on location information of the terminal, detect a howling frequency band in which howling occurs between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal from among a plurality of frequency bands in which the voice call service is performed, based on information of the plurality of frequency bands, and remove the howling by adjusting a gain of the howling frequency band; and
an output unit configured to output a voice from which the howling is removed.

12. The terminal of claim 11 , wherein the information of the plurality of frequency bands comprises at least one from among a peak value and an energy value of each of the plurality of frequency bands,
wherein the controller is further configured to obtain an energy change rate of each of the plurality of frequency bands based on input voice information of the at least one short-range terminal and output voice information of the terminal, and detect the howling frequency band, based on the energy change rate of each of the plurality of frequency bands.

13. The terminal of claim 12 , wherein the controller is further configured to, when an energy change rate of a predetermined frequency band from among the plurality of frequency bands exceeds a preset change rate, detect the predetermined frequency band as the howling frequency band.

14. The terminal of claim 12 , wherein the controller is further configured to obtain voice loop cycle information of the voice call service, and detect a predetermined frequency band whose energy change rate is periodically changed according to the voice loop cycle information from among the plurality of frequency bands as the howling frequency band, based on the voice loop cycle information.

15. The terminal of claim 11 , wherein the controller is further configured to adjust the gain of the howling frequency band in which the howling occurs, based on at least one from among the information of the plurality of frequency bands, voice loop cycle information of the voice call service, a distance between the terminal and the at least one short-range terminal, and a number of the at least one short-range terminal.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hong Jun-Seong
• Jee Jeong-Wun

Classifications

• H04M1/20

  Arrangements for preventing acoustic feed-back (H04M1/62 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04M9/082

  using echo cancellers (echo cancellers per se H04B3/23) · CPC title

• H04R3/02 Primary

  for preventing acoustic reaction {, i.e. acoustic oscillatory feedback (specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/453)} · CPC title

• H04R2430/03

  Synergistic effects of band splitting and sub-band processing · CPC title

• H04R3/04

  for correcting frequency response · CPC title