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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:
Nov. 07, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v., Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Andreas Franck, Illmenau, DE;

Christoph Sladeczek, Illmenau, DE;

Thomas Sporer, Fuerth, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/32 (2006.01); H04R 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/323 (2013.01); H04R 5/02 (2013.01); H04R 27/00 (2013.01); H04R 2203/12 (2013.01); H04R 2227/001 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01); H04R 2430/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A more clear-cut separation of a first audio signal within a first region of a sonication area of a plurality of loudspeakers is achieved in that a calculator calculates that version of the audio signals which results from the spatially selective reproduction of the audio signals at this first region, in that a masking threshold is calculated as a function of the version of that audio signal which is to be separated from the one or more other audio signals at this region, and in that the emission of the audio signals for spatially selective reproduction to the outputs of the plurality of loudspeakers is influenced as a function of a comparison of the masking threshold with the version of the one or more other, i.e. spurious, audio signals.


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