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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2011
Harry K. Lau, Norwalk, CA (US);
Yair Kerner, Kiryat Ono, IL (US);
Jonathan Chien, Tustin, CA (US);
James W. Wihardja, Fullerton, CA (US);
Harry K. Lau, Norwalk, CA (US);
Yair Kerner, Kiryat Ono, IL (US);
Jonathan Chien, Tustin, CA (US);
James W. Wihardja, Fullerton, CA (US);
Conexant Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
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.