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Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2017
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Willem Bastiaan Kleijn, Eastborne Wellington, NZ;

Andrew Allen, San Jose, CA (US);

Jan Skoglund, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sze Chie Lim, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/02 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/303 (2013.01); H04S 3/008 (2013.01); H04S 2400/01 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01); H04S 2420/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques of rendering sound for a listener involve producing, as the amplitude of each of the source driving signals, a sum of two terms: a first term based on a solution sto the equation b=A·s, and a second term based on a projection of a specified vector ŝ onto the nullspace of A, ŝ not being a solution to the equation b=A·s. Along these lines, in one example, the first term is equivalent to a Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse, e.g., A(AA)·b. In general, any solution to the equation b=A·s is satisfactory. The specified vector that is projected onto the nullspace of A is defined to reduce the coherence of the net sound field. Advantageously, the resulting operator is both linear time-invariant and idempotent so that the sound field may be faithfully reproduce both inside the RSF and at a sufficient range outside the RSF to cover a human head.


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