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Real-time digital audio reverberation system

Patent 5530762 Issued on June 25, 1996. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 31, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

Reverberation sound producing apparatus
Patent #: 3992582
Issued on: 11/16/1976
Inventor: Osakabe

Artificial reverberation apparatus for audio frequency signals
Patent #: 4352954
Issued on: 10/05/1982
Inventor: Franssen, deceased ,   et al.

Sound field correcting apparatus and method Patent #: 5369710
Issued on: 11/29/1994
Inventor: Asai

Inventors

Application

No. 251461 filed on 05/31/1994

US Classes:

381/63, Reverberators381/61, SOUND EFFECTS704/260Image to speech

Examiners

Primary: Kuntz, Curtis
Assistant: Oh, Minsun

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

H03G 003/00

Abstract

A software reverberator system produces a sequence of "reverberated" samples from an input digital word sequence where each word in the input sequence comprises a digitized sample of an original analog audio signal. The invention generates the reverberated samples by adding together several scaled and delayed input words to produce a corresponding reverberated output word. The resulting reverberated output word stream can be converted to analog form in sequence to produce a reverberated version of the original audio signal. The delays are produced by clocking the input words through multi-stage first-in, first-out buffers with a number of stages selected to give the desired delay.

Other References

  • "Musical Applications of Microprocessors", Chamberlin, 1980, pp. 460-46
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