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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110025915 | Audio and Video Embedded Bedding The present invention provides a bedding system (BS) adapted to be used by any person comprising: (a) a bedding article; and, (b) at least one audio/video means. It should be emphasized that the audio/video means is integrated within said bedding article.... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110002469 | Apparatus for Capturing and Rendering a Plurality of Audio Channels A method comprising selecting a subset of audio sources from a plurality of audio sources, and transmitting signals from said selected subset of audio sources to an apparatus, wherein said subset of audio sources is selected in dependence on information provided by said... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20090208023 | AUDIO CHANNEL SPATIAL TRANSLATION Using an M:N variable matrix, M audio input signals, each associated with a direction, are translated to N audio output signals, each associated with a direction, wherein N is larger than M, M is two or more and N is a positive integer equal to three or more. The variab... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20080285763 | Common Signal Eliminator From a Stereo Source To increase the stereophonic potential of an ordinary stereo source, a device (20) eliminates the common signals from a stereo source. The device is installed in relation to four loudspeakers, two primary (38, 40) and two secondary (42, 44), and it ... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080085006 | Integrated multi-channel audio box The present invention relates to audio visual devices, and is aimed to provide an audio box with stereo surround effect; an integrated multi-channel audio box having simple structure and neat appearances, no complex wiring necessary to connect to the source. The structu... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20070211905 | Multichannel Spectral Mapping Audio Apparatus and Method A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo ... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20070206812 | Multichannel Spectral Mapping Audio Apparatus and Method A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo ... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070203598 | Method for generating and consuming 3-D audio scene with extended spatiality of sound source A method of generating and consuming 3D audio scene with extended spatiality of sound source describes the shape and size attributes of the sound source. The method includes the steps of: generating audio object; and generating 3D audio scene description information inc... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070165868 | MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM FOR USE IN RECORDING AND PLAYBACK AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SAME An audio enhancement system and method for use receives a group of multi-channel audio signals and provides a simulated surround sound environment through playback of only two output signals. The multi-channel audio signals comprise a pair of front signals intended for ... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070147623 | Apparatus to generate multi-channel audio signals and method thereof An apparatus and method of generating multi-channel audio signals includes a voice signal removal unit to generate a first signal by removing one or more components of a plurality of frequency bands corresponding to a voice frequency range from an input signal, a voice ... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070147622 | Audio apparatus An audio apparatus, which is compatible with multi-channel audio sources, is capable of achieving reproduction without sound drop-out even in use with only two speakers. The audio apparatus includes an audio mixing circuit that inputs an L audio signal, R audio signal, ... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070110250 | TRANSAURAL STEREO DEVICE A method of creating an impression of sound from an imaginary source to a listener. The method includes the step of determining an acoustic matrix for an actual set of speakers at an actual location relative to the listener and the step of determining an acoustic matrix... | 05/17/2007 |
| 20070104331 | Multi-channel audio system and method for generating virtual speaker sound To realize sound output so that a listener does not feel unnaturalness, an audio signal for a center speaker is multiplied by a transfer function for a left speaker and a transfer function for a right speaker, respectively, and an audio component for a left center speak... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070076894 | Audio control system To propose an audio control system in that even if it has a thin center speaker, low sounds can be felt to be heard from the center speaker. A low frequency signal in a center channel audio signal is delayed, and then the delayed signal is added to a right and a left ch... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070076893 | Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method with dynamically varying mapping coefficients A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo ... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20060222191 | Surround sound system A surround sound system includes a pair of front speakers, a pair of surround speakers, a pair of reflective elements and a control unit. The front speakers are positioned in front of a listener location. The surround speakers are positioned in front of the listener loc... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060198528 | Interactive content sound system A sound encoding and decoding technique for interactive content according to the present disclosure provides additional sound channels encoded in real time from 3D audio vector and level information. The additional channels are encoded into the native sound channel form... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060165247 | Ambient and direct surround sound system Sound reproduction according to the present disclosure integrates an additional sound field, direct surround sound, to existing diffuse or ambient surround sound systems. Direct surround sound permits point source sounds to be located in an ambient or diffuse surround f... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060126878 | Audio playback method and apparatus using line array speaker unit A multi-channel audio system is constituted using at least one line array speaker unit, in which plural speakers are arrayed in line, wherein the same audio signal is supplied with a prescribed delay time to each of the speakers, thus forming plural sound beams. The plu... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060126854 | Acoustic apparatus An acoustic apparatus includes a plurality of speakers that is arranged in predetermined individual positions; a plurality of sound sources that sends respective independent audio signals; an audio signal processing unit that sends sound field generation signals of a pl... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060120534 | Method for generating and consuming 3d audio scene with extended spatiality of sound source A method of generating and consuming 3D audio scene with extended spatiality of sound source describes the shape and size attributes of the sound source. The method includes the steps of: generating audio object; and generating 3D audio scene description information inc... | 06/08/2006 |
| 20060109992 | Device for level correction in a wave field synthesis system For a level correction in a wave field synthesis system having a wave field synthesis module and an array of loudspeakers for providing sound to a presentation region, a correction value which is based on a set amplitude state in a presentation region is determined, the... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060088168 | Multichannel spectral vector mapping audio apparatus and method A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo ... | 04/27/2006 |
| 20060078129 | Sound system with a speaker box having multiple speaker units Presented is a surround sound system including a loudspeaker enclosure containing a left speaker, a right speaker, and a center speaker. The speakers receive separate audio signals previously processed by a channel decoder. A virtualizer performs a head related transfer... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060062396 | Optical reproducing apparatus and method to transform external audio into multi-channel surround sound An optical reproducing apparatus and method to transform external audio into multi-channel surround sound to provide a stereo effect. An optical disk drive detects a moving picture signal recorded on an optical disk. A digital signal processor digitalizes the detected m... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20060050890 | Method and apparatus for producing a phantom three-dimensional sound space with recorded sound A central speaker and personal headset speakers are used to create a three-dimensional phantom sound space for each listener. The speakers of the headset are located in close proximity to, but do not isolate, the ears of the listener such that external sounds are allowe... | 03/09/2006 |
| 20060045277 | Multichannel spectral mapping audio encoding apparatus and method with dynamically varying mapping coefficients A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo ... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060013419 | Sound reproducing apparatus and method for providing virtual sound source A sound reproducing apparatus for providing an optimal virtual sound source and a sound reproducing method therefor are provided. The sound reproducing apparatus includes a virtual sound signal generation unit for generating more than one virtual sound signal correspond... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050276420 | Audio channel spatial translation Using an M:N variable matrix, M audio input signals, each associated with a direction, are translated to N audio output signals, each associated with a direction, wherein N is larger than M, M is two or more and N is a positive integer equal to three or more. The variab... | 12/15/2005 |
| 20050271215 | Audio signal processing An audio system for processing two channels of audio input to provide more than two output channels. The input may be conventional stereo material or compressed audio signal data. The audio processing includes separating the input signals into frequency bands and proces... | 12/08/2005 |
| 20050244010 | Stereophonic sound reproducing system and stereophonic sound reproducing apparatus A stereophonic sound reproducing system including: a stereophonic sound reproducing device which provides a sound field space giving realistic sensations to a listener by publicly addressing sounds from speakers corresponding to inputted plural sound signals on the basi... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050238177 | Method and device for control of a unit for reproduction of an acoustic field Said method for control of a reproduction unit (2) for an acoustic field with a number of reproduction elements (31 to 3N) is characterised in comprising: a step for establishing a finite number of coefficients representative o... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050220309 | Sound reproduction apparatus, sound reproduction system, sound reproduction method and control program, and information recording medium for recording the program In a recording unit, a set state table in which various parameters which are required are stored when a sound processing unit performs signal processing for audio data that corresponds to each channel, and a setting screen data are recorded. This setting screen data is ... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050152556 | Passive surround sound adapter An adapter is disclosed that converts a received stereo audio signal into a signal having more than two channels, such as a surround sound signal. For example, the adapter may convert a stereo signal to a 5.1 signal. Other types of surround sound may alternatively be ge... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050141723 | 3D audio signal processing system using rigid sphere and method thereof Provided are a three-dimensional audio signal processing system using a rigid sphere and a method thereof. The three-dimensional audio signal processing system of the present research simplifies the shape of a human head into a rigid sphere, acquires three-dimensional a... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050063551 | Multi-channel surround sound expansion method A multi-channel surround sound expansion method is proposed. First, a two-channel stereo sound is read and then expanded into a Front L channel, a Front R channel, a Front M channel, a Rear L channel and a Rear R channel sound signals by means of the Hafler technique. N... | 03/24/2005 |
