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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1978
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael Anthony Gerzon, Oxford, EN;
Assignee:
National Research Development Corporation, London, EN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
179 / ; 1791 / ;
Abstract
In a surround-sound encoding system which does not have full circular or square symmetry, a third channel is added to a basic two channel system in such a way that the third channel may be reduced in amplitude or restricted in frequency without substantially affecting important localization criteria. The encoder includes a phase-amplitude matrix such that a decoder having a phase-amplitude matrix which is the inverse of the encoder phase-amplitude matrix is such that the absence of the third channel signals at the input thereof does not affect localization in at least three, preferably six, predetermined directions.