Media.Player

Spatialized, Localized, and Binaural Virtual Surround Sound

Detailed Technology Description

UC San Diego inventors have designed a system that takes an arbitrary speaker array and provides focused sound projection that is: Spatialized—present a localized beam of high quality audio. Localized—present no sound for most of the listening area, except a localized area. Binaural—present a sound as being located external to the listener. Performance improves with the number of speakers in the array. The invention has been implemented successfully on a speaker array driven by specialized software.

Supplementary Information

Inventor: OTTO, Peter | KAMDAR, Suketu | TOSHIRO, Yamada | FAZI, Filippo M.
Priority Number: WO2012068174A3
IPC Current: G10K001118 | H04R000502 | H04S000500
Assignee Applicant: The Regents of the University of California | The University of Southampton
Title: METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SPEAKER ARRAY TO PROVIDE SPATIALIZED, LOCALIZED, AND BINAURAL VIRTUAL SURROUND SOUND | PROCÉDÉ DE COMMANDE D'UN RÉSEAU DE HAUT-PARLEURS PERMETTANT DE PRODUIRE UN SON D'AMBIANCE VIRTUEL BINAURAL SPATIALISÉ LOCALISÉ
Usefulness: METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SPEAKER ARRAY TO PROVIDE SPATIALIZED, LOCALIZED, AND BINAURAL VIRTUAL SURROUND SOUND | PROCÉDÉ DE COMMANDE D'UN RÉSEAU DE HAUT-PARLEURS PERMETTANT DE PRODUIRE UN SON D'AMBIANCE VIRTUEL BINAURAL SPATIALISÉ LOCALISÉ
Summary: Binaural sound production method for speaker systems used for fixed, structural installations such as in rooms or virtual reality caves, in private vehicles e.g. cars, mass transit such as busses, trains and airplanes, and for open areas such as office cubicles and well-less classrooms.
Novelty: Binaural sound production method for speaker systems involves filtering left and right total binaural signals through set of left spatialization filters and set of right spatialization filters, which are provided for each speaker

Industry

ICT/Telecom

Sub Category

Multimedia

Application No.

9578440

Others

Tech ID/UC Case

21171/2010-350-0

Related Cases

2010-350-0

*Abstract

None

*IP Issue Date

Feb 21, 2017

*Principal Investigator

Name: Filippo Fazi

Department:

Name: Suketu Kamdar

Department:

Name: Peter Otto

Department:

Name: Toshiro Yamada

Department:

Country/Region

USA