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Electroacoustic system

US5109419A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 18, 1990
Grant dateApr 28, 1992
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Expiry dateMay 18, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04R2227/007
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electroacoustic system for acoustic enhancement of a room that includes a sound source location. The electroacoustic system includes a microphone spaced from the sound source location, an array of loudspeakers arranged in at least four interleaved banks, each bank including at least one loudspeaker, and signal processing electronics connected between the microphone and the speaker banks that includes an input channel, circuitry connecting the microphone to the input channel, a plurality of output channels corresponding in number to the number of speaker banks, circuitry connecting each output channel to a corresponding speaker bank, and at least four statistically independent time-variant reverberation units responsive to input signals from the microphone for producing output signals on the output channels for driving the several banks of speakers.

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