A digital echo cancellation device is provided. The digital echo cancellation
device
used for a high speed bidirectional communication system includes an adaptive beamformer
in the form of a plurality of finite impulse response (FIR) filters for estimating
an input receiving signal, the adaptive beamformer for estimating a front part,
which rapidly changes in an echo path impulse response, by adaptively estimating
the input receiving signal and an orthogonalized infinite impulse response (IIR)
filter for receiving the estimated signal output from the adaptive beamformer and
estimating a hind part of the echo path impulse response on the basis of an IIR.
According to the digital echo cancellation device, the amount of calculation and
the amount of required memory is significantly reduced, convergence speed is high,
and the stability of the output of the filter is improved since the impulse response
of the echo path is estimated by only several tens of taps.