Method and apparatus for creating sounds in a virtual world by simulating sound in specific locations in space and generating sounds as touch feedback
US5587936A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 5, 1993 |
| Grant date | Dec 24, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 5, 2013 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04S5/00
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method and apparatus for creating sounds in a virtual world. The system provides signal processing capabilities to convert monaural sounds to fully spacialized sound sources. A user of the system wearing a pair of stereo headphones perceives live, computer generated, or recorded sounds as coming from specific locations in space, just a listener does in the real world.
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