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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1999
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A loudspeaker apparatus includes a modulator for frequency-modulating an audio signal to a signal of a frequency band and an ultrasonic generating device adapted to be driven by the output signal of the modulator. The modulator frequency-modulates the audio signal into a first signal modulated on the basis of a an ultrasonic frequency and a source signal and a second signal modulated on the basis of the ultrasonic second frequency and an inverted version of the source signal. As the ultrasonic generating device is driven by the modulated signals, it emits an ultrasonic wave of a first frequency and an ultrasonic wave of a second frequency and the frequency component corresponding to the difference of the two frequencies provides audible sound. Since the ultrasonic generating device emits ultrasonic waves, an ultradirectivity can be realized.