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Digital sound relaxation and sleep-inducing system and method

US7749155B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 23, 1998
Grant dateJul 6, 2010
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Expiry dateSep 23, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10H2250/431
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In one embodiment, an improved-customizability digital sound relaxation system having a sound card receiving port and a collectable sound card are cooperative to play prerecorded natural or other sounds by depressing one of a plurality of sound selector switches and a sound card selector switch. The new sounds of each collectable sound card customize the library of available sounds to individual taste. In another embodiment, an improved-flexibility digital sound relaxation system having at least two (2) prerecorded sounds stored at first and second memory locations of internal or external/internal memory devices may be selected and combined for concurrent and/or individual replay by depressing one of a plurality of sound selector switches and a combine switch, or by depressing one of a plurality of sound selector switches, a sound card selector switch and a combine switch. In this manner, from eighteen (18) digitally prerecorded sounds of the preferred embodiment ninety (90) individually selectable and/or combinable sounds are made available. In either embodiment, natural or other sounds may be stored in loop or sound bite format in either or both of the internal and external memor…

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