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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8094845 | Mobile terminal with at least two transducers The invention concerns a mobile terminal with at least two transducers (LSm, LSs1, LSS2) used simultaneously as loudspeakers for stereophonic effect. According to the invention, one of said transducers is a main transducer (LSm) with a main working fre... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8041060 | Surround-sound system There is provided a surround-sound system in which the output direction of a sound beam of each channel in a speaker array can be optimized without requiring a user to make any troublesome operation. A parameter setting control portion 6 controls to output so... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031891 | Dynamic media rendering Media may be dynamically rendered by receiving signals from one or more types of sensors sensing in an area, and obtaining from the signals information about one or more locations of furniture, or one or more locations of persons or heads or ears thereof, or identit... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7974424 | Speaker array system A speaker array system for outputting, with a simplified construction, sounds audible with a nearly uniform sound volume within an arbitrarily set area. The speaker array system includes a speaker array having speaker units, a delay unit for supplying the speaker un... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7889878 | Speaker array apparatus and method for setting audio beams of speaker array apparatus To provide a speaker array apparatus and a method for setting audio beams in a speaker array apparatus, in which the degree of freedom in the place where the speaker array apparatus is installed is high, and a user can set audio beams easily. A speaker array apparat... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885424 | Audio signal supply apparatus An audio signal supply apparatus which can broaden a listening area in the directions of directivity axes of acoustic beams output from a speaker array and directions other than the directions of the directivity axes. A listening area is set, propagation paths to be... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881485 | Apparatus and method of determining an impulse response and apparatus and method of presenting an audio piece The apparatus for determining an impulse response in an environment in which a speaker and a microphone are placed works using an audio signal. Means for spectrally coloring a test signal, which preferably is a pseudonoise signal, works using a psychoacoustic maskin... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7869611 | Test tone determination method and sound field correction apparatus A test tone determination method includes picking up a test tone output from a speaker; calculating first and second distances from the speaker to first and second microphones and a distance difference between the first and second distances; determining whether or n... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7840019 | Estimation of head-related transfer functions for spatial sound representation The estimation of an HRTF for a given individual is accomplished by means of a coupled model, which identifies the dependencies between one or more images of readily observable characteristics of an individual, and the HRTF that is applicable to that individual. Sin... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7804972 | Method and apparatus for calibrating a sound beam-forming system A method and apparatus system for calibrating a sound beam-forming system provides calibration of low cost alternatives to present array beam-forming systems. A test signal is supplied to multiple speaker drivers and is detected from a microphone signal supplied fro... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801317 | Apparatus and method of reproducing wide stereo sound An apparatus and a method of reproducing a wide stereo sound by widening a stereo sound output by an audio reproducing apparatus using only two closely disposed channel speakers include a widening filtering operation and a direct filtering operation. In the widening... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7676049 | Reconfigurable audio-video surround sound receiver (AVR) and method A reconfigurable audio-video surround sound receiver (AVR) and method provide flexible surround speaker placement and a low cost simulated surround sound implementation. A processing circuit within an audio device or audio/visual (AV) device such as an audio-video r... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7430298 | Sound field controller A sound field controller including a plurality of output channels for respectively supplying signals to a plurality of speakers, includes: a weighting-coefficient outputting unit which outputs weighting coefficients for determining how the signals on the plurality o... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7391869 | Base management systems Sound processing systems have been developed that create a surround effect without quality degradation experienced by known sound processing systems in non-optimum listening environments. The sound processing systems may include matrix decoding systems that manipula... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7382888 | Phase shifting audio signal combining Combining audio channel signals includes shifting the phase of a first audio signal relative to a second audio signal. In one embodiment, the relative phase shifting is substantially limited to a predetermined frequency range. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7343017 | System for playback of pre-encoded signals through a parametric loudspeaker system A method and system for generating parametric output directly from a prerecorded and error corrected parametric signal for playback in a parametric loudspeaker system. The method includes the step of retrieving a pre-encoded audio signal from an electronically reada... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334852 | Multiple configuration shelving system for displaying audio visual components A shelving system for displaying audio visual components that may be configured into multiple positions is disclosed. The system includes a base that supports a center platform disposed between right and left platforms. The center platform and the right and left pla... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333519 | Method of manually fine tuning audio synchronization of a home network A method is provided for manually synchronizing the playback of a digital audio broadcast on a plurality of network output devices. The method is applicable for use with methods such as those that use a time code, insert a control track pulse, or use an audio wavefo... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324857 | Method to synchronize playback of multicast audio streams on a local network A method is provided for synchronizing the playback of a digital audio broadcast on a plurality of network output devices using a microphone near a source, embedded control codes, and the audio patterns from the network output devices. An optional, additional manual... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7209564 | Generation of customized three dimensional sound effects for individuals A system for customising the synthesis and generation of spatial hearing in virtual auditory space (VAS) for individual listeners includes a measuring ruler (12) and a digital processing unit (DPU) (14) to which the ruler (12) is connected. The ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206415 | Automated sound system designing An automated sound system design device and a method for operating it. A computer is constructed and arranged to accept input of facility information signals and sound system preference signals requirements, and using a previously stored assemblage of component perf... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206413 | Sound processing system using spatial imaging techniques A sound processing system reduces the instances when only a center speaker is heard. The gain of a volume setting is adjusted for individual speakers in response to one or more input signals. The gain of the center speaker is attenuated in relation to the global vol... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206673 | Driver assisting system A method and a system for assisting a driver operating a driver controlled input device within a vehicle, acquires data including information on environment in a field around the vehicle and information on vehicle setting regarding how devices are set within the veh... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197151 | Method of improving 3D sound reproduction A method of improving 3D sound reproduction is described, in which virtual sound sources to be positioned behind a listener 10 are filtered using an HF-cut filter in order to remove distracting high-frequency components caused by incomplete transaural crossta... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7167567 | Method of processing an audio signal A method of processing a single channel audio signal to provide an audio source signal having left and right channels corresponding to a sound source at a given direction in space, includes performing a binaural synthesis introducing a time delay between the channel... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158844 | Configurable surround sound system A configurable surround sound system for the creation of true 3D acoustic spatial effects. The configurable surround sound system includes a computer processing unit including a user interface means including a keyboard and a mouse, and a conventional controller uni... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158643 | Auto-calibrating surround system A multi-channel surround sound system and method is described that allows automatic and independent calibration and adjustment of the frequency, amplitude and time response of each channel of the surround sound system. The disclosed auto-calibrating surround sound (... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7146010 | Two methods and two devices for processing an input audio stereo signal, and an audio stereo signal reproduction system The present invention relates to methods and devices for processing one or the other of two types of common input audio stereo signals so that the output signals will reproduce normally wide stereo sound from an audio stereo reproduction system comprising a pair of ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7130430 | Phased array sound system An array of speakers are fed from a single source of audio frequency sound but each speaker transmits the sound delayed by an amount which is determined by the distance between a particular speaker and a selected region in space, so that sound from each speaker cons... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123731 | System and method for optimization of three-dimensional audio The invention provides a system for optimization of three-dimensional audio listening having a media player and a multiplicity of speakers disposed within a listening space, the system including a portable sensor having a multiplicity of transducers strategically ar... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113609 | Virtual multichannel speaker system A virtual multichannel sound system is presented to improve audio reproduction by statically or dynamically conforming signal processing to specific speaker characteristics and/or arrangements. According to one such aspect, one or more dynamic signal processing algo... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7103187 | Audio calibration system An audio calibration system includes control logic, an input device, a display, a noise generator, an inverter, a plurality of speakers, and a delay module coupled to each speaker. Upon receipt of a calibration start signal from the input device, the control logic d... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095455 | Method for automatically adjusting the sound and visual parameters of a home theatre system A system is provided for setting various acoustic and visual parameters to improve the reproduction of audio signals and visual signals. The system incorporates a hand-held remote control device which operates the main surround sound unit (e.g., home theatre receive... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7091751 | Low-power and low-noise comparator having inverter with decreased peak current Low-power and low-noise CDS (correlated double sampling) comparators for use with a CIS (CMOS image sensor) device are provided. A CDS comparator is constructed using one of various low-power inverters that provide decreased instantaneous transition currents at a lo... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7024259 | System and method for evaluating the quality of multi-channel audio signals A system for evaluating the quality of an audio test signal derived from an audio reference signal by coding and decoding, said audio test signal and said audio reference signal each comprising a plurality of channels, comprises a unit for converting the audio refer... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023908 | DSL transmission system with far-end crosstalk compensation The invention relates to a far-end crosstalk canceling circuit for a digital subscriber line transmission system, the transmission system including a plurality of line termination modems transmitting discrete multitone symbols Si to corresponding network termination... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016513 | Variable disposition wide band multi-way loudspeakers A sound system employing wide band loudspeakers, which includes one or more loudspeakers constructed to be placed and housed one inside the other in a closed configuration for transporting and storing and to be detached one from the other and positioned in different... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013013 | Surround device There is provided a surround device which processes stereo signals decoded by a decoder of a multi-channel surround method comprises boost means which boosts middle and low frequency components of a center channel signal in the stereo signals. There is also provided... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010128 | Method of processing and reproducing an audio stereo signal and an audio stereo signal reproduction system A method of processing and reproducing an input audio stereo signal in an audio signal processing system comprises the steps of (1) splitting a side signal into a first and a second intermediate signal, where the first intermediate signal is equal to the side signal... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6996244 | Estimation of head-related transfer functions for spatial sound representative The estimation of an HRTF for a given individual is accomplished by means of a coupled model, which identifies the dependencies between one or more images of readily observable characteristics of an individual, and the HRTF that is applicable to that individual. Sin... | 02/07/2006 |
