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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2008
Applicants:
J. Craig Oxford, Nashville, TN (US);
D. Michael Shields, St. Paul, MN (US);
Inventors:
J. Craig Oxford, Nashville, TN (US);
D. Michael Shields, St. Paul, MN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for introducing a time-varying time delay randomly into the individual reproduction channels of a sound recording, two in the case of binaural presentation. This emulates the temporal aspect of microphone and/or listener motion. The present invention may be applied as a unidirectional process. No preparation of the source material is required. It can be applied to any multichannel audio signal set. It can process analog or digital signals. The process may be used with headphones, loudspeakers, hearing aids or similar assistive hearing devices.