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Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2020
Applicant:

Thx Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Russell Gray, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

THX Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/30 (2013.01); H04S 2400/09 (2013.01); H04S 2420/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing crosstalk cancellation and/or generation of virtual speakers. An audio processor may include a crosstalk cancellation circuit and a linearization circuit. The linearization circuit may offset the frequency response of the crosstalk cancellation circuit to provide an overall frequency response that is flat. A virtual speaker circuit may receive an input signal associated with an output channel and pass the input signal to the output channel unmodified. The virtual speaker circuit generates a virtualization signal based on the input signal and passes the virtualization signal to another physical channel. The virtualization signal may be generated further based on an ipsilateral head-related transfer function (HRTF) and a contralateral HRTF that correspond to a virtual speaker location of a virtual speaker generated by the virtual speaker circuit. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.


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