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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:
Mar. 03, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2011
Applicants:

Harry K. Lau, Norwalk, CA (US);

Yair Kerner, Kiryat Ono, IL (US);

Jonathan Chien, Tustin, CA (US);

James W. Wihardja, Fullerton, CA (US);

Inventors:

Harry K. Lau, Norwalk, CA (US);

Yair Kerner, Kiryat Ono, IL (US);

Jonathan Chien, Tustin, CA (US);

James W. Wihardja, Fullerton, CA (US);

Assignee:

Conexant Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/30 (2013.01); H04S 3/002 (2013.01); H04S 2400/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sound reproduction apparatus comprising a loudspeaker bar having a plurality of loudspeakers. A loudspeaker bar controller coupled to the loudspeaker bar for processing audio data for the plurality of loudspeakers, the loudspeaker bar controller comprising a spatial enhancement/virtualization system for receiving a surround channel of audio data and processing the surround channel of audio data with a spatial generation/virtualization filter, wherein a left stereo channel of audio data and a right stereo channel of audio data are not processed with the head related transfer function filter. Bass is enhanced for small speakers which are not able to produce bass frequencies.


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