Patent ID: 8024056

Claim:
A method for removing noise in an amplifier connected with an audio device, the method comprising: receiving an audio signal including a channel status information and audio data that are both of a first mode, and decoding the audio data according to the first mode; setting the channel status information of the audio signal to a second mode at a start of a predetermined period of time, while continuing to receive the audio data in the first mode for a first duration of the predetermined period of time, wherein the predetermined period of time includes the first duration and a second duration; switching a mode to decode the audio data from first mode to the second mode when the amplifier detects the channel status information is of the second mode, and continuing to receive the audio data in the first mode for the first and second durations of the predetermined period of time; blocking an amplifier output of the audio data in the first mode while the decoding is in the second mode for the second duration of the predetermined period of time; and receiving the audio data in the second mode after the predetermined period of time.