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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001

Filed:

Nov. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jean-Marc Jot, Aptos, CA (US);

Sam Dicker, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Luke Dahl, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Assignee:

Creative Technology Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 3/00 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus for processing sound sources to simulate environmental effects includes source channel blocks for each source and single reverberation block. The source channel blocks include direct, early reflection, and late reverberation blocks for conditioning the source feeds to include delays, spectral changes, and attenuations depending on the position, orientation and directivity of the sound sources, the position and orientation of the listener, and the position and sound transmission and reflection properties of obstacles and walls in a modeled environment. The outputs of the source channel blocks are combined and provided to single reverberation block generating both the early reflections and the late reverberation for all sound sources.


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