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Audio system for a passenger aircraft and method for controlling same

US8340314B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

Henning Scheel · Hamburg, DE
Frank Cordes · Neustadt, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 2, 2007
Grant date	Dec 25, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 2, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04R2227/003
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An audio system for an aircraft passenger cabin and a method for controlling such an audio system for providing passengers with information programs, in which multiple loudspeakers are each disposed at a predefined loudspeaker location in the aircraft cabin, and an audio signal having at least one audio channel is reproduced via the loudspeakers wherein the at least one audio channel is output by a central processing unit to the multiple loudspeakers in the aircraft cabin via a bus system having multiple distribution units and multiple cabin units.

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