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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:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
QSound Labs, Inc., Calgary, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/00 ;
Abstract
The inventive mechanism produces multiple output signals from a two-channel stereo input signal. The mechanism produces a first pair of output signals which retain the monaural information in the stereo input signal. The first pair of signals each comprise a combination of one of the input channels and filtered signal produced from a difference of both input channels. The mechanism produces a second pair of output signals which lacks the monaural information. The second pair of output signals each comprise a combination of one of the input channels and an inverse filtered signal produced from a difference of both input channels. Q-filters are used to provide the various filtered signals.