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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2014
Qs Industries, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Frederick E. Severson, Beaverton, OR (US);
Pat Quinn, Aloha, OR (US);
QS Industries, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
Remote objects, which may include cars and locomotives, rolling stock and or fixed objects in a model railroad layout, convey sound and/or other digital information to a Sound and Control Centers, Local Sound and Control Units and or walk-around throttles to produce sound and operations that enhances the model train experience. Preferably, remote objects may communicate with the sound and control center by wireless means, and over separate communication channels. Sound information and related data from the separate channels can be processed, combined, enhanced or used to fetch additional sounds from memory, in order to drive at least one speaker that is separate from the remote objects. The speaker(s) may be especially advantageous to produce or enhance low frequency audio sounds coordinated with activity at the remote object(s).