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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1996
Filed:
May. 11, 1993
Joseph E Pineau, Calgary, CA;
One Inc., Alberta, CA;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for stereophonic reproduction uses conventional left and right stereophonic signals to energize a point source transducer in a complementary manner. The resultant interference sound pattern is interpreted by the brain of a listener to enable the listener to experience stereophonic hearing in a wide region surrounding the transducer, not just in the region of the plane of symmetry. A point source transducer may be simulated by a plurality of transducers positioned with the spacing therebetween less than a determinable maximum distance. While conventional stereophonic signals may be employed in the reproduction of sound, improved reproduction is obtained by producing the signals by recording sound with a pair of microphones arranged with the apogees of their respective field of polar response patterns facing substantially at 180.degree. to one another.