Abstract:
A method of audio signal processing for a loudspeaker located close to an ear in use, the method consisting of or including: creating one or more derived signal from an original monophonic input signal, the derived signals being representative of the original signal being scattered by one or more bodies remote from said ear (excluding room boundary reflection or reverberation), combining the derived signal or signals with said input signal to form a combined signal, and feeding the combined signal to said loudspeaker, thereby providing cues for enabling the listener to perceive the source of the sound of the original monophonic input signal to be located remote from said ear.
Abstract:
A method of generating a second decorrelated audio signal from a first audio signal, for use in synthesising a 3D sound field, includes: a) deriving from the first signal a first delayed signal; b) multiplying this first delayed signal by a gain factor between zero and minus one to give a first delayed gain-adjusted signal; c) deriving from the first audio signal a second delayed signal, having a different delay time from the first delayed signal; d) multiplying this second delayed signal by a gain factor between zero and plus one (such that the said gain factors sum to zero) to give a second delayed gain-adjusted signal; e) combining said first and said second delayed gain-adjusted signals with the first audio signal to provide a second decorrelated audio signal. The first and second delayed signals are delayed by time periods which change in a substantially random manner.
Abstract:
The invention is a stereo sound expander which reproduces a realistic sound image in three dimensions. Prior art systems suffered from the disadvantage that the creation of virtual sound sources or loudspeakers gave rise to a tonal change. Attempts to correct the tonal change impaired the accuracy of the virtual sound source. The invention overcomes the problems experienced by prior art systems, by coupling modified and unmodified stereo signals. Thus by not modifying a Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF) for one signal and equalising the HRTF for the other signal, a flattened frequency response is produced with no tonal changes, but with a high degree of spatial accuracy. Resultant output signals may be used to generate binaural signals or can be fed into crosstalk cancellers.
Abstract:
An optical transceiver sytem comprises an optical ticket unit (2) and a transceiver unit (18). The ticket unit (2) includes a green LED (10), an ASIC (4) and a spherical lens (12). The transceiver unit (18) includes a red fluorescent plastics plate (20), photodiode means (22) for detecting fluorescence within the plate (20) generated by light received from LED (10). Unit (18) also includes an ASIC (26) for receiving signals from photodiodes (22), and red LEDs (28) incapable of generating fluorescence within plate (20). The ASIC (26) drives LEDs (28) whose optical signals are detected by a photodiode (30), within ASIC (4), travelling via lens (12). The transmitted and received optical signals are representative of communication data.