Patent Document ID: 7689413
Application ID: 11852961
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An electronic device that facilitates enhancement of a speech signal comprising: an input component that receives a speech signal and pixel-based image data relating to an originator of the speech signal, wherein the pixel-based image data relates, at least in part, to the movement, orientation, or position of at least one physical structure of the originator of the speech signal, including the face and lips, or combinations thereof; and a speech enhancement component that employs a probabilistic-based model that correlates between the speech signal and the pixel-based image data so as to facilitate discrimination of noise from the speech signal, the model employing a set of hidden variables representing relevant features, the features being inferred from at least one of the speech signal and the pixel-based image data, wherein the speech enhancement component can anticipatorily model at least one noise condition based, at least in part, on a movement, orientation, or position of at least one physical structure of the originator of the speech signal, to facilitate enhancement of the speech signal.