Patent ID: 7483530

Claim:
An apparatus for separating blind source signals, comprising: a forward process unit receiving a plurality of blind source signal vectors and outputting a plurality of output signal vectors by using a predetermined blind source separation algorithm; an update process unit receiving the plurality of output signal vectors and learning first weighting values used for the predetermined blind source separation algorithm according to a predetermined learning algorithm; and a weight process unit having a matrix operation structure for receiving the first weighting values and converting them into coefficients and second weighting values applicable to the predetermined blind source separation algorithm, wherein the forward process unit comprises (L+1) identical processing elements connected in a systolic array structure, where L is the number of sequential delay of blind input signal vectors, the update process unit comprises (N 2 +N)/2.times.(2L+1) identical updating elements divided into even-numbered updating elements operating in synchronization with even-numbered clocks and odd-numbered updating elements operating in synchronization with odd-numbered clocks and connected in a systolic array structure, where N is the number of the blind input signal vectors, and each cost of the processing elements and the updating elements is initialized by 0 in an initial operation stage.