Cinema audio processing system
US7092542B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 15, 2001 |
| Grant date | Aug 15, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 14, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04S3/008
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a multi viewer environment where multiple viewers simultaneously experience an audio-visual production, with the visual production occurring on a display surface, a method of increasing the perceived reality of the audio stream of the production, the method comprising the steps of: (a) locating a series of speakers along a periphery of the viewing audience; (b) panning an audio stream between the series of speakers so as to provide for the sense of an audio sound moving along the side of the viewing audience. In preferred embodiments, the output of one of the speakers is delayed relative to another speaker.
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