Abstract:
A telephone with a receiver arousing bone-conduction and air-conduction hearing converts an input electric voice signal into vibration and acoustic signals. Since a conventional telephone has a receiver for only air-conduction hearing, a hearing impaired person cannot use the conventional telephone. In case of a bone-conduction telephone using a bone-conduction vibrator as a receiver, this vibrator is only used for bone-conduction hearing, so that an additional telephone is needed when the ordinary person and the hearing impaired person live in the same place. The telephone with a receiver arousing bone-conduction and air-conduction hearing uses a vibrator of smoothly arousing bone-conduction and air-conduction hearing as a receiver, is capable of hearing a vibration signal through bone-conduction hearing as well as an acoustic signal through air-conduction hearing, makes a hearing-impaired person with conductive hearing loss and an old person who has difficulty in air-conduction hearing use bone-conduction hearing, and makes an ordinary person having a normal sense of hearing use either bone-conduction hearing in a noise environment or air-conduction hearing in a normal environment.
Abstract:
A telephone receiver includes a transducer, which receives the electrical signals and simultaneously converts the electrical signals into audible signals to be heard via the human ear and vibration signals for inducing bone conduction hearing in humans. The transducer includes a magnet structure 22, 23, 24 with a voice coil 25a mounted on a bobbin 25, the movement of the voice coil in the yoke gap causing movement of the audio diaphragm 26 and the mechanical diaphragm 27 attached to the vibration transmitter 30.
Abstract:
A method for visualization of multi-channel audio signals, a method for converting audio information by using a spatial cue, and an apparatus thereof are provided to visualize reproducing processes of the multi-channel signals and apply variation of the spatial cue to generation of the multi-channel signals, thereby reproducing realistic multi-channel audio signals and adjusting a position of a visual audio source of an audio signal. An apparatus for visualization of multi-channel audio signals, and converting audio information by using a spatial cue comprises the following parts: a SAC(Spatial Audio Coding) which is constituted with a SI decoder(102) for decoding the spatial cue and SAC decoder(101) for synthesizing multi-channel signals; a spatializer(103) and a visualizer(104) for receiving the decoded spatial cue information; and a displayer(105) for receiving a panning angle and power gain information of each channel.
Abstract:
A method for compressing and decompressing a multi-channel signal using virtual source location information (VSLI) on a semicircular plane is provided. VSLI, rather than inter channel level difference (ICLD), is used as spatial cue information, thereby minimizing loss caused by quantization of spatial cue information, improving sound quality of a decompressed audio signal, and reproducing an excellent audio signal by reducing distortion upon decompression of an original signal at a decoder spectrum.