Patent ID: 9275624
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G03B,G10K,G10L

Claim Text:
1. An audio processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an audio signal; and an audio processing unit configured to reduce noise in the audio signal, wherein the audio processing unit is further configured to generate a complement signal using at least one of an audio signal in a first predetermined section before a first noise section including noise in the audio signal acquired by the acquisition unit and an audio signal in a second predetermined section after the first noise section and complements an audio signal of the first noise section with the complement signal such that noise in the audio signal acquired by the acquisition unit is reduced, and wherein the audio processing unit is further configured to generate the complement signal using the audio signal in the second predetermined section if noise is included in the first predetermined section and noise is not included in the second predetermined section, and to generate the complement signal using the audio signal in the first predetermined section if noise is included in the second predetermined section and noise is not included in the first predetermined section.