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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
QSound Ltd., Calgary, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
381 17 ; 381 63 ;
Abstract
A system for use with headphones provides sound imaging positioning that can accurately locate the sound image at any one of a number of points surrounding the listener and can smoothly fade the sound position from one point to the next as the apparent sound source moves relative to the listener during panning. Individual sound positioners are provided that include only scalers or delay lines are provided for each channel, so that the same sound location filters can be utilized with a number of voices or input channels.