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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
J. Richard Aylward, Ashland, MA (US);
Assignee:
Bose Corporation, Farmingham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/00 ;
Abstract
Surround sound encoding and decoding includes apparatus and techniques for encoding a number of major channels of a surround sound signal, such as left, right, center, left surround and right surround, into a lesser number of channels, such as left transmitted and right transmitted, and decoding the lesser number of channels into a larger number of decoded channels, such as left, right, center, left surround and right surround, for being electroacoustically transduced.