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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:
Apr. 08, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1994
Blaine Smith, Lincoln City, OR (US);
Sharper Image Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A sound generator includes independent and identical generators for the left and right sound channels. In one embodiment, identical sound synthesizer ICs contain the same library of sound loops. By retarding one IC's RESET port, the two ICs will always begin to output sound at slightly different times. If both ICs are clocked at the same clock rate, a fixed time shift between the left and right channel loops produces a pseudo-stereo effect. If the ICs are clocked at slightly different rates, the time shift between channels can drift continuously, producing the effect of migrating sound having great depth and spatial separation. In a second embodiment, substantially identical white noise generators output the left and right sound channels. In one mode, a common sawtooth waveform modulates each channel producing a wide variation in pulsating wave sounds. In another mode, the user may manually modulate both channels. A preferred embodiment provides a sound generator that uses two synthesizer ICs and two white noise generators.
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